Scuppernongs Poems | Examples

Good Times Long Gone

Good Times... Long Gone

My mind goes back to Apple 
dumplings and BlackBerry dew,
Plums and scuppernongs and 
games of Horshoe,
I skint my knee while I was 
skipping
 rocks, 
I ran barefoot through the 
grass no
 shoes no socks,
Springtime came then summer,
 then fall, 
And with eyes wide open I
 experienced it all,
Have you ever caught crickets 
in
 mason jars?  
Or watched fireflies underneath 
the stars? 
Have you sipped the nectar 
from
 honeysuckle vines?
or played in mud puddles and
 made mud pies?
That I must say Indeed was the 
life,
To partake of the world and not
 have to think twice,
The age of innocence is what it
 was, 
No harm to any creature nor 
man
 nor dove,
There was no bitterness,  all I 
felt
 was love,
What happened to those days?
 They're  surely long gone,
I wish for them back at the 
dusk of 
every dawn,
Good times... Long gone.