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Salt water flows in our veins...
by Ed Matlack → (All Poetry by Ed Matlack)
Thursday, December 17, 2015    Rated "G" by the Author.
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Damn, but I miss those days...


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Salt water does inside me flow,
It made it quite hard to grow,
But grow we did, from a little skinny blond haired cutie,
To the fat, old, bearded, hippie with a pony tail,
That you know as me, the salt water inside this old body turning stale…

Back in the day, the mornings we swam,
The afternoons we surfed & boated,
Hard to believe some of those old boats we had even floated,
The biggest & best I remember was dad’s little 48 foot Bertram…

Growing up with Mother Ocean having our backs,
A childhood we had that did never anything lack,
We knew love, friendship & true comradery,
No one knew back then what was poverty,
Our lives still were far from monotony…

In our little world we were sated,
Never realizing, even if we were, hated,
Our lives may have been quite antiquated,
While our teachers kept us all of the world fascinated,
And our parents kept us of the outside world quite isolated…

……………DAMN, BUT I MISS THOSE DAYS………………..
© -Ed- 12/17/15
 

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 Reviews of "Salt water flows in our veins..."
Reviewed by Richard Cederberg
Reviewed on December 18, 2015
You wax silver in this one. Sated, hated, antiquated, fascinated, isolated... you've captured the journey into senescence well. I'd only add one more word: cremated. (-: Peace peckerwood. And Happy Holidays.

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on December 18, 2015
I always wondered what stale saltwater was like… Now I know… You! ;-)

Saltwater sure runs through your veins.

Ron

Reviewed by Walt Hardester
Reviewed on December 18, 2015
Days now are just as carefree Ed, if you let them be.
You just can' jump as high.
On another note, you know that blood and sea water are the about the same chemical composition.

Walt

Reviewed on December 17, 2015
If you have ever followed the Bohemian style of life and follow it today it's O.K.. You need to be who you are!

Love ya!

Jane

Reviewed by D. Vegas (Reader)
Reviewed on December 17, 2015
Can't go back, unfortunately, ED...

Always,
Deborah

Reviewed by George Carroll
Reviewed on December 17, 2015
Yeah for Jerry

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton
Reviewed on December 17, 2015
Never knew we had it so good, eh, Eh . . .


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