Hockey Childhood Poems

BYLINY: a nostalgia form'that which happened '

ADOLESCENT SCENES

during the Forties
       I was just a lad
growing up
   was...

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nobody sees you the way I do
in your wheelchair
with your unopenable arms
where everything crashes to a gray twisted landscape

my brother
alpha male
of demon strut clashes
in our...

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I am the Boy Scouts who become 
Official. 
   I am Charlie Chaplin film that 
Makes you giggle. 

   I am...

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Those were the days when children went out to play,
May be with cricket ,football hockey or mud and clay,
Watching TV, reading comic books a whole...

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my ice covered lake
skating~hockey~ice fishing
fun for young and old


 
Date Written: 1/16/2022  
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6 Place  

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Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin...

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In my hometown as a wee child.

It felt like I had walked several a mile.

To a place where I always had fun.

Where my passion for...

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during the Forties
       I was just a lad
growing up
   was not so bad
Summer evenings
   ...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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I was born in the hearth of the snowbelt
knee deep winters-pond hockey 
a long driveway with a small coal shovel
pegging cars with snowballs
long slogs to...

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Back when we were kids we'd play duck duck goose
When her turn came around it always me she would choose
I'd bust open pinatas and pin...

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Skipping school to play baseball,
spending up all I got at the Mall;
having fun and laugh with girls
who love Coca Cola and burgers.

It's a day of...

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We are on holiday
And it's been a great day
So much fun and games
The park with the swings
And in the arcade finding pennies
Swimming and splashing
Eyeing prizes...

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Fear of God
            
The Crackling ice
Put the fear of God in you
When you see...

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It must have been around 1967, a Christmas that 
feels like yesterday. Funny thing though, I don’t 
remember unwrapping it, I don’t remember jumping 
for...

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The Hush of Christmas Past


It came more slowly then.
After Thanksgiving
the lights and decorations
started showing up.
The excitement started to build.
Santa showed up at the
department store, ...

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