A Poem of Remembrance
This poem brings me back to where there were no ipods or mtv (to where we were not old enough to watch it) and we just played outside. We would call friends over and play in the yard without anything to play with. We would use our imaginations to where we could play for hours without being bored because our imaginations would take us anywhere. We felt fun and powerful because there was no one to tear us down because they thought they looked better or they acted better. There was no self-confidence, cliques, or enemies. We were just little kids having fun in the summer.
My favorite line in this poem was “When the purpose of knees was to be skinned”. I feel this is all true and it relates to how we were when we were younger. We all just ran around our neighborhoods and dared ourselves to go to many heights. We would do things more adventurous that we would probably not do today like jumping into bushes, jumping on to a friend, or rolling in the grass. We would get dirty and scraped up but love it. When the poem states “During that summer- which may never have been at all; but which has become more real than the one that was-” I felt overwhelmed because it is true that we might have the best summer of our lives but we might not remember it that way because it is our life, it is how we spend our days, how we spend our nights. It is how we talk to friends like it is just a normal day, a normal day- where watermelons ruled.
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