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The Red Balloon of My Childhood

The red balloon of my childhood
      chasing rainbows
    the rush of ozone
  hairspray
wait…
that’s my sister’s parade
  big hair
    I was nowhere near
      with babies
    early eighties
  Oahu
oh to be a child in the wild
  spray of the playful
    sea, still
      i felt like a child
    riveted by waves
riding
  the boogie board
    not grown up enough
      to surf
    the burp of fantasy
  precious buffet
of paradise
         the red balloon loose
      i chase its caboose
    living
in its wake

10/22/2021

Copyright © Kim Rodrigues | Year Posted 2021

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Paige Hind Date: 8/20/2024 4:32:00 PM "i chase its caboose living in its wake" what an ending- !! Login to Reply

Valsa George Date: 11/9/2021 7:52:00 AM Childhood memories revisit us time and again and we then become children. Chasing balloons has always been a pleasure for me too when I was a child ! Enjoyed this poem ..... Login to Reply

Caren Krutsinger Date: 10/29/2021 6:37:00 AM This is so much fun " i felt like a child riveted by waves riding the boogie board not grown up enough to surf" Wow! Login to Reply Kim Rodrigues Date: 10/29/2021 7:03:00 AM I will never be grown up enough to surf…lol

Gary Radice Date: 10/27/2021 2:14:00 AM I love this Kim. A wonderful poem. Sometimes I read a poem here at Poetry Soup and think that it deseves to be read by a wider audience. This is one of those. The Banksy image compliments your words so well. Login to Reply Kim Rodrigues Date: 10/27/2021 6:37:00 AM Thank you so much, Gary <3

Bj Legros Kelley Date: 10/26/2021 2:53:00 AM Oh how wonderful! What a brilliantly joyful memory of childhood! I love how you painted this beautiful imagery <3 Login to Reply Kim Rodrigues Date: 10/26/2021 7:49:00 AM Thank you, BJ!

Jan Allison Date: 10/25/2021 3:22:00 PM what wonderful childhood memories, balloons, bubbles and blowing dandelion clocks... do children still do these things today:-( hugs Jan xx Login to Reply Kim Rodrigues Date: 10/25/2021 5:18:00 PM I hope they do <3

Panagiota Romios Date: 10/23/2021 1:17:00 AM You really are a talented and unusuallly creative woman! Hold on to those lovely pictures in your soul. You are a poetess not a negative narrator. I can feel the winds of your childhood. Golly, should be a POTD. Pangie Another Fave Pangie....xx Login to Reply

Rico Leffanta Date: 10/22/2021 12:02:00 PM You can still come to Oahu, but your memory of clean beaches and sea will be destroyed. Time marches on, so enjoy your memories! Aloha! Login to Reply Kim Rodrigues Date: 10/22/2021 12:49:00 PM Wow, Rico! Tell me about it… Sounds like a tear jerker :(

Victor Buhagiar Date: 10/22/2021 8:41:00 AM We will never forget such innocence childhood. Hugs Login to Reply Kim Rodrigues Date: 10/22/2021 8:46:00 AM Truly! I feel sorry for those robbed of theirs.