Guest Posting From Mrs. Space Cadet - Growing Up

(Picture courtesy of eqwhisperingwinds.com)

Although Mrs. Space Cadet spends most of her time gardening and keeping the Catskills Hermit supplied with his ration of Swee-Touch-Nee tea, this evening she found time to jot down a poem about a country girl who moves to the Big City. (It is her answer to the old song "How’re you gonna keep her down on the farm…")


Growing Up

Growing up in woods and wilderness

Free to run and splash

In puddles and bogs

Jumping from hillock to hillock

Splash!

Wet socks, dirty feet

So what!


Grown up now in city somber

Searching for the sun

Looking for mud and tadpoles

Not finding even one.

Older now, and found


In the mountains all around

Green leaf and endless sky

Alas -- no longer wondering why