I REMEMBER

I REMEMBER

  

How often in memory have you strayed

Back to the days of old?

When life was sweet and you cherished

The tales that your Grandpa told.

When you splashed at the beach

And in rock pools stayed,

With tiny crabs and starfish

And you played with a bucket and spade?

When you sat in the grass and made daisy chains

Which you hung round your neck and wrist?

And you felt the warmth of golden days

When with sunshine you were kissed.

When each year seemed to take forever

To get back to the Festive Season.

When days were long and you had not a care

Did not question the rhyme or the reason.

Do you remember walking in leaves

And rolling around on the grass?

Just lying back and watching the sky

How quickly those days did pass.

And now as a grown up – it’s hard to recall

How life was much simpler then.

When we women were still little girls

And the boys not yet grown to be men.

So cherish each memory – hold it in store

For I am sure it will be a great part

Of the times of your life you want to recall

The times that belong in your heart.

© Linda J. Vaughan

October 29 2001

SEASIDE MEMORIES

SEASIDE MEMORIES

I remember Oh so much 

Of the days when he was small

How we would laugh and play

And chase a rolling ball

I see him now as we ran and splashed

Both of us wetting our clothes,

I hear in memory his call

About seaweed between his toes.

Gathering shells to carry home

His hands all covered with sand,

I see the sun on his tousled head

And remember I thought it grand.

The days moved on and changes came,

He is taller now and older,

Those summer days were autumn touched

And I remember feeling colder.

Live moved on and he’s has gone from my life,

But in memory he always will be

The little boy with the sand in his hair

On a day beside the sea.

© Linda J. Vaughan
May 2011

COLD MORNING AT THE BEACH

COLD MORNING AT THE BEACH

Sand blowing

Sea birds calling

Dogs running

Children skipping ~

Cold morning at the beach

People talking

Friends walking

Someone swimming

Others jogging~ 

Cold morning at the beach.

Pelicans flying past

White caps on the water

People watching

From their cars ~

Cold morning at the beach.

Old friends reminiscing

Memories of people missing

Two old mates on a bench

Remembering other days ~

Cold morning at the beach.

Lapping water

Pools and shells

Seaweed with its musty smells

Shell grit under foot ~

Cold morning at the beach.

A cargo ship on the horizon

A yacht with sails unfurled

Motor boat soon passing

Foaming water in its wake;

Cold morning at the beach.

Sunshine and shadow

Grey clouds across the sky

People walking together

And others quite alone ~

Cold morning at the beach.

Pewter coloured water

Beneath a steel grey sky

A Kiosk serving coffee

A busy place indeed ~

Cold morning at the beach..

© Linda J, Vaughan