Our four youngest grandchildren will attend their orientation sessions for the new school year tomorrow -- and next week is their last week of school-day freedom! It doesn't seem possible that the summer break is already almost over. About this same time of the year a few years ago, just as the stores began their "back to school" sales push, a blog called Three-Word Wednesday challenged other bloggers to write "something" using these three words: endless, ought, and shadow. Reflecting on the shortness of the Summer break, I wrote:
Summer
The first of June arrived today
Nipping at the heels of May.
Hoards of children, newly free,
See summer days stretch endlessly...
Summer camps; friends' sleepovers;
Hunting for four-leaf clovers;
Pick-up games in the yard;
Marshmallows nicely charred.
Who was that hurrying by?
I think I recognized July.
She rushed by and left no shadow
While we were playing in the meadow.
August looms; still we caper.
Back-to-school sales fill the paper.
Wonder who'll be in my class?
Not my friend Jenny - she didn't pass.
Hair is cut. Supplies are bought;
School is starting, as it ought.
Here I go. I'm on my way!
A brand new school year starts today!
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Summer Break
Labels: Creative Writing, Education, Kids, Poetry
Posted by Joan at 12:30 AM
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2 comments:
I love the poem. I must've missed it when you published it before. Summers DO go by much too quickly, but then all the seasons do.
Very nice. I always loved the start of the school year.
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