A Fine Vintage
Roving has been in my blood since I was just a kid.
In hide and seek, I ran away while other kids just hid.
I’d stash myself six blocks away where they could never see me.
I couldn’t wait for age and circumstance to come and free me.
Other kids had tantrums, but I just had my dreams
that took my sheltered sedate life and split it at the seams.
It never once occurred to me that it would be naive
to think that after high school, I’d pack my bags and leave.
And after college in some place exotic in my mind,
I’d be off to travel with others of my kind.
I’d have a travel bonanza to Africa and France.
I’d even go to China if I had the chance.
Was it precognition or simply intuition
that all of my travel dreams have come to sweet fruition?
Everything I sought out there, each thing I hoped to find
I found in all those years that now I find I’ve left behind.
Now that my world is smaller and I’m more content,
nonetheless I still have memories that I can vent.
They’ve percolated in my mind as I cure and age
until they’ve aged sufficiently to pour out on the page.
The prompts for today are tantrum, roving and bonanza. Here are the links:
https://fivedotoh.com/2018/11/01/fowc-with-fandango-tantrum/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2018/11/01/roving/
https://dailyaddictions542855004.wordpress.com/2018/10/27/daily-addictions-2018-week-43/bonanza
Great post! I enjoyed all of your journey in this one.
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nice having you along….
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Your writing is amazing!! Thank you for sharing!
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Thanks, SW. Done in the half hour before getting on the road this morning. Now I’ve just discovered I brought the wrong computer cord, so that does my blogging in for the next five days unless I can steal forgottenman’s.
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I suspect we can come to some mutually beneficial arrangement.
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Just bought a new cord at Best Buy so I’m back in business!!
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I’d say you’ve been very blessed…at least in terms of your childhood dreams.
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Sweet memories make aging richer…
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Yessssss
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