Post No. 857
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That Flying Feeling
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About a thousand years ago
as a child running wild,
we used to ride our bikes
for miles and miles
through the countryside
and down to the ocean wide!
What freedom was this
that today’s children all miss,
no such thing as congestion
of traffic or lungs
(not to mention crime where now
life is worth less than a dime),
we would trudge up hill
and soar down dale
for all the world like an eagle on wings
swooping low and sweeping high
shouting for the wind to carry
our voices up to God in the sky,
oh to feel again the joy we felt,
the immensity of our world and
the freedom to have fun in the sun!
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©Denise G Allen, 16 August 2015 18:04
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16/08/2015 at 7:51 pm
I feel you. We used to hike miles from home to
in order to go to friends houses or just playing in the woods
and I cant imagine my boys doing it now – our world
is much different.
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17/08/2015 at 6:39 am
Yes. And our modes of transport have reduced the size of our world and we miss out a lot on what we see.
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23/08/2015 at 12:44 pm
“About a thousand years ago
as a child running wild,”
And yet they seem mere yesterdays…
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23/08/2015 at 3:52 pm
That is very true, Carl. I miss the freedom of those days. Fortunately (or unfortunately) today’s children don’t realise what they are missing.
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