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Dragot
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0 posted 2006-09-09 01:31 AM



Lessons of Childhood



The red-haired boy played in the sandbox,

Dressed in his superman pajamas,

Idol of his three-year old life,

Even wore the matching underwear on the outside.

He wasn’t a superhero today,

He was a Clark Kent construction worker,

Operating a yellow Tonka dump truck.

He yelled out the orders for delivery of loads of sand.

The truck drove forward to a rusty slide. (Accompanied

By the boy’s imagination of the sound of a dump truck)

The workers waited

beneath the rungs of the ladder,

He-Man figures and half-broken Transformers.

The child was oblivious to the world around him,

The sound of a car that drove by too fast, the creek

As it flowed in its winding way around the house.

The Great Dane barked its warning, no matter to the dutiful little

Supervisor, he had a site to build.

A bumblebee hovered near the third rung of the ladder,

Watched as the boy in his superman pajamas

Approached

And landed.

Copyright 2006
Dragot

© Copyright 2006 Dragot - All Rights Reserved
Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14
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Canada eh.
1 posted 2006-09-09 11:20 AM


This piece was very much enjoyed..thanks to
your wonderful use of imagery!
Great read!
Hugs~Nancy

Now - while the leaves still dance on the wind
While the moon and the clouds come spinning
Will you whisper my name again?
Again..and again....

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