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When Summers Were Fun

Remember when summers were fun?
   When the days were long and you were gone
      From just after dawn 'till the setting sun

Remember when summers were fun
   When you didn't go to work or to school
      When you hung out with your buddies at the local pool

Remember when summers were fun
   When you played baseball for hours and hours on end
      When Mom couldn't track you, couldn't text messages send

Remember when summers were fun
   When you teased the girls, before you first noticed their curves
      When you played daredevil on your bike, stunts of steel nerves 

Remember when summers were fun
   When in one giant gulp you downed an ice-cold coke
      When no one was offended by an off-color joke

Remember when summers were fun
   Well, if you do, you may be the only one
      Because those kind of summers are finished and done

Copyright © Gershon Wolf | Year Posted 2019

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Panagiota Romios Date: 5/10/2019 6:43:00 PM Depends on who their parents are these Days and kids have no business on iPhones stall. They need to connect. And there was no PC that I remember.so most anything was said. Panagiota Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 5/11/2019 10:20:00 PM Yeah, you're right, Panagiota. Without PC's back then, we actually had freedom of speech! Now Big Brother is watching us (all the time). Scary today. ~ gw

Caren Krutsinger Date: 5/10/2019 4:01:00 AM The children of today would read this and wonder if it was written on Pluto. Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 5/10/2019 9:12:00 AM Yeah, I guess you're right. Sadly, it seems that I now share the stage with Plutarch! ~ gw

Kim Rodrigues Date: 5/9/2019 9:12:00 PM Oh boy! Right?! There’s the good and the bad. Kids today must be on pins and needles well on iphones anyway...lol Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 5/9/2019 9:22:00 PM 'Pins and needles' is certainly an apt expression for what kids have to be on today--if they're not on drugs for recreation or depression or ADD or... Looking at how my granddaughters and others their age have been growing up/old fast, I'll take my childhood any day. (And my childhood was no picnic, believe me. STILL!). Thanks for this (and all of your) perceptive comment(s). ~ Gershon

Charles Messina Date: 5/9/2019 7:52:00 PM NOOOO...lol Those are great memories, Gershon. Ahh, to be young again. Who knows, one day you might be saying...remember when, I wrote this wonderful poem. Love it, brother! Great write...CM Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 5/9/2019 8:02:00 PM Hey, Charlie! Thanks for your enthusiasm over this one. Nostalgia reigns...But, boy, some of those memories really seemed dim...And from your mouth to G-d's ear: Only hope I live long enough to say, 'Remember when I wrote this poem... Here's to long life for you and yours! Thanks again for the comment and best wishes, Gershon