know the feeling doncha slumping in your chair like a dumpling when breezes in the chimneybreast begin to whisper of somewhere anywhere doncha when you have no wish to turn on your television radio computer phone as the world they bring is not your own & now you are suddenly nowhere everywhere hearing on the wind in the flue a world that draws you cooing doves & cries of children & cars swishing by doncha wish to open the jailhouse door walk free with no particular place to go but out & away know the feeling doncha from way back when those grumpy grownups growled get lost & doncha come back before dusk haha never the same road twice when you & your best friends walked & walked until you reached those unknown hedges houses highways hidden byways to a world you had never been tree trunks never climbed faces never seen streams you had never dammed streetnames you never heard haha whole estates of footballers poets scientists explorers & doncha recall how full it felt to return at dusk with treasure trove a strip cartoon of images drawn from a Brilliant day when you'd wandered in a novelty wonderland fresh pastures glimpsed but once though present still & steady yet for future days as souvenirs of days gone by & still to be that boy or girl you were & still to see whatever's new & still to walk free with no particular place to go doncha still go out & away
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It’s all time travel now, whether in mind or in space…
Haha, true, wouldn’t mind going back two or three years!
Oh for that freedom – doncha know. I’m never lost like I used to be.
Mmm, roll on senility! On second thoughts …
It’s hard to be in the real world when we’re so much in the digital one…
that was a good childhood though. (K)
And good, in retrospect, because it was memeless. Ha, did I just invent a new word? Your point is spot-on, though, could be the stuff of sci-fi if anyone was clever enough to explore it …
I like that word. It works.
Triggered memories there, Dave. A time warp of wandering in an age of innocence when adventure was always just down the road. Thanks. I liked it. –Curt
Thanks for reading, Curt, and commenting so sympathetically. I liked using a freewheeling form, for a change.
It’s always fun to see what you will come up with next, Dave! 🙂
🙂 Haha, never really know myself until it’s there …
That’s really lovely, the rhythm and the turns of phrase and the sentiments, all of it.
Thanks … the subject is close to my heart, though my head is still somewhat confused!