Another Poem of Goodbye To Childhood

    Slice of Life Is Enjoyed Every Tuesday with Stacey and Ruth at the Two Writing Teachers blog.

This is the fourth poem in my personal project about different ways of looking at children (mine, others, and grandchildren, too) growing up.  I’ve chosen to do a series of poems at different stages in children's lives, essentially saying goodbye each time.  I hope to put them together in a book with pictures of my grandchildren (10 ½, almost 3, 7 months) and children at the particular stage I am describing in the poem.  Part of this comes from my talks with my daughter and the children growing and changing so fast.  Another part is that I love telling stories through poetry, and I love poems of goodbye, so I thought this would be a good way to combine both passions.  It's nice to have a goal and an audience to write for.

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If you choose,

you can run down the block,

or hop

and skip.

There seems

nothing today you

cannot do.

I like the friendtimes,

playtimes with Bobby,

Sally or Mike.

I love the times

full of noisy rolling giggles and jokes,

the times we look at worms

and butterflies and bees.

I like watching the exacting work

with Legoes and Grandpa.

I put them in my

childtimes snowglobe

to keep frozen the scene

for future reference.

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