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Happy Holidays

Each summer we head down to the beach
how happily all our young children play.
Whilst gulls overhead squawk and screech
tiny toes paddle in cool waves in the bay.
You’ll buy us ice creams the kids beseech -
Let’s see if I’ve got enough money to pay!

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04/21/20

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Eve Roper

May 2, 2020 at 3:59 PM

Cute verse,Jan, congratulations on your win in Joseph contest. Hugs Eve

Andrea Dietrich

May 1, 2020 at 10:15 AM

Cute one, my friend. Congrats for the win. How is it going today?

Michelle Faulkner

April 30, 2020 at 5:22 PM

Such a treat to see this on the winner's list, many congrats, my friend!

Paula Goldsmith

April 30, 2020 at 1:50 PM

Congratulations on your win. Love the poem and picture. How I would love to go to the beach and walk the beach. Guess that is not happening. Enjoy your day and win..........

Jenish Somadas

April 30, 2020 at 1:07 PM

Memories of bygone Happy Holidays.. Cheerful verse..Congrats Jan..

Constance La France

April 30, 2020 at 10:22 AM

Jan, congratulations on your win in the contest with this delightful poem _Constance

Jennifer Proxenos

April 30, 2020 at 9:50 AM

Back with congrats Jan, delightful write. Blessings, Jennifer.

Joseph May

April 30, 2020 at 9:06 AM

A fun day at the beach, Congrats on your win Jan..

Janice Canerdy

April 30, 2020 at 8:16 AM

Jan, this is a beautiful poem! CONGRATS on your win. Janice

John Watt

April 30, 2020 at 12:22 AM

Jan, this was fun and endearing and lifted my spirits. Living in a beach town, I have many happy memories of going as a kid, and bringing my own kids as they grew up. Love it! Congrats on your win, dear friend.

Jennifer Proxenos

April 22, 2020 at 12:32 PM

A fun poem for a somber time in our lives, we need to laugh away or fears and think positive thoughts like a day at the beach this time next year - that would be awesome. Who would ever think that during ours and our children's lives, we would live through a pandemic, sometimes hard to grasp until you hear the news at night and all the very sad deaths, Good luck in the contest mu friend, A brilliant and cute poem. Blessings, Jennifer.

Gershon Wolf

April 21, 2020 at 8:19 PM

Ooh, this one could charm the skin off a rattlesnake, Jan! ~ Ten-Gallon-Hat Tex

Jan Allison

April 22, 2020 at 3:40 AM

thanks GW its good to be writing again:-) Trying to bring a bit of fun and lighten the mood with fun poems:-) hugs jan xx

Michelle Faulkner

April 21, 2020 at 6:05 PM

Ice cream at the beach - just hope no sand gets in it! Wonderfully whimsical, Jan.

Jan Allison

April 21, 2020 at 6:30 PM

I doubt there will be a chance of it this year Michelle!!!:-( hugs jan xx

Rico Leffanta

April 21, 2020 at 2:52 PM

One person quickly infected 27 family members and colleagues in Hawai'i, so another month - or more - must pass before people can go to the beach again. If everyone behaved as if they were the carrier, we would all be able to go to the beach today! Aloha! Rico

Jan Allison

April 21, 2020 at 2:59 PM

that is so sad on so many levels Rico:-( hugs Jan xx

Sam Kauffman

April 20, 2020 at 6:14 PM

Oh such wonderful memories in your rhyming verse, Jan. This is a fun format. Your poem took me on a virtual trip to the beach - looking forward to seaside adventures this summer - maybe getting some fun tan lines though. Hope all is well with the bridge up! Stay well. Good luck in the contest.

Jan Allison

April 21, 2020 at 4:29 AM

thanks Sam, yes it would be lovely to see the beach crowded but its not going to happen for the forseeable future:-( we have had 9 deaths, sadly 5 in one care home which is so tragic as many there are infected s the number will rise. all well with us, hope you are fine too:-) hugs Jan xx

Ilene Bauer

April 20, 2020 at 4:27 PM

a delightful and charming poem, jan! just what i needed...

Jan Allison

April 21, 2020 at 4:27 AM

Thanks Ilene, my muse has been missing for a week I am trying to get back to writing fun poems:-) hugs Jan xx

Tom Cunningham

April 20, 2020 at 3:48 PM

Well written Jan, brought back memories, those days at the beach, don't think there will be many holidays this year though. Good luck Tom

Jan Allison

April 20, 2020 at 4:03 PM

you are right Tom our local beach is deserted except for the odd person walking their dog. Our own version of 'captain Tom' has raised just over £9000 it wont get to the dizzy heights of Captain Tom but its a wonderful achievement:-) hugs Jan xx

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