If I Could Go Back - Collaboration

The challenge was to add one stanza into the sponsor's poem. This was my favorite one that he showed. I have italized the last stanza to show it is the little part that I added to Charles Messina's poem "If I Could Go Back": 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 I’d don the cotton ball wool hat and give the whiffle ball a whack. Then loud and strong I’d raise my voice as friends and brothers I’d call back! Aug. 21, 2018 for Charles Messina's Add A Stanza To My Poem Poetry Contest Note: Here is a link to his poem. There you can see an interesting bio that goes with it . He grew up with many siblings just like I did. https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/if_i_could_go_back_1012017