Rockaway

 

If you’ve never been to Rockaway

You don’t know what you’ve missed

It was my childhood summers stay

A favorite on my favorites list

 

I tricycled the boardwalk

Swam through the highest waves

Creatively too busy for bored-talk

Constructing sand-beach caves

 

To this day I love to reminisce

Of fishing off that stretched-out pier

Why I never ever caught a fish

Still remains to me unclear

 

“Things don’t last forever”

Is what wise people say

They wouldn’t be so sure, however

If they’d summered-up in Rockaway

 

by Stan Cooper…9/19/12 graphic by Don Hunt





Poetry by Stan Cooper The PoetBay support member heart!
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Written on 2012-10-11 at 15:32

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Amy Valentina
Summers used to be such pleasant delights some years back... I recalled my summers when I was in school - swimming in the stream, eating mangoes, sleeping in the portico and watching the twinkling stars...
Loved every word of your muse...

LOL,
Amy
2012-10-12


Elle The PoetBay support member heart!
We would summer in chaussey or in sark and your poem brought happy memories back - never been to your shores but I will mingle them with my memories of happy places :-)

Elle x
2012-10-11


John Ashleigh
A very charming and uplifting write, Stan. I thoroughly enjoyed this one. Thankyou for sharing. *applaud*

Regards,
John.
2012-10-11


shells
Keep on rockin Stan, I may not have been there, but I feel I know a good memory when I see one. Have a few in my summers favourites list, of days gone by.
2012-10-11