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If I Could Go Back - Collaboration

As I'm looking through my window 
And I start to l look around
All the snow has melted 
I see toys left on the ground
 
A basket ball, a whiffle ball 
A glove and baseball bat 
A dirty lone blue mitten 
And a cotton ball wool hat
 
Candy wrappers and soda caps 
And a witches old corn broom 
And underneath the swing set 
Was a busted red balloon
 
Footsteps from the children 
Left imprinted in the dirt 
And in the leafless branchy bush 
Was a little boys lost shirt
 
Those times when we were children 
Sometimes bad and sometimes good 
I'd go back there in a heartbeat 
If I thought that I just could
 
A dirty lone blue mitten 
And a cotton ball wool hat 
A basket ball, a whiffle ball
A glove and a baseball bat
 
And underneath the swing set 
Was a busted red balloon 
Candy wrappers and soda caps 
And a witches old corn broom
 
And in the leafless branchy bush 
Was a little boys lost shirt 
Footsteps from the children 
Left imprinted in the dirt
 
Those times when we were children 
Sometimes bad and sometimes good 
I'd go back there in a heartbeat 
If I thought that I just could

If I could go back to that time
I'd tell them one by one
Learn to listen to the music
Before the song is done


8-9-2018
For Charles Messina's contest If I Could Go Back- Collaboration

Copyright © | Year Posted 2018




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Date: 8/29/2018 4:12:00 PM
Congrats on your winning work ..Way to go.. Sara
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Larry Bradfield
Date: 8/29/2018 4:33:00 PM
Thank you, Sara!
Date: 8/28/2018 3:06:00 PM
Love your addition to Charlie's poem, Larry...Congratulations on your win!
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Larry Bradfield
Date: 8/29/2018 4:32:00 PM
Thank you, Eve!
Date: 8/28/2018 7:34:00 AM
Larry, I love the stanza you added to my poem. I couldn't have said it any better. Thank you for entering my contest so much appreciated. Congratulations on your win. All the best...Charlie
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Larry Bradfield
Date: 8/28/2018 10:06:00 AM
Thank you, Charlie. It was a pleasure to participate and to place in your contest.
Date: 8/12/2018 11:00:00 PM
Aw! This poem has a nostalgic sweetness rarely penned, but you did. It is a wow for me.
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