Go On Back
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The 1950's in Boston Ma....quite a different experience than todays mayhem. My thanks to Charles Messina as his "Add a Stanza" contest spurred this visit to a simpler time in my life.
Go on Back....
Sit among the dandelions
listen to the bees
thank the broken pavement
for the scars upon my knees
walk along three decker canyons
in a sticky August haze
hop within the hopscotch chalk
a dance form to amaze
hit some rocks with a long flat stick
raise hands shouting “Going, going gone”
throw some rocks at a lily pad
in a muddy road side pond
catch a frog, chase butterflies
play fetch with a mongrel dog
use your fingers as a net
and chase the pollywogs
run a stick along a picket fence
hear a train in the slow “click-clack”
pull the cord, blow the whistle
“All aboard” we’re going back…..
John G. Lawless
©7/23/2018
Copyright © John Lawless | Year Posted 2018
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