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Memories of Things Past...
by Ed Matlack → (All Poetry by Ed Matlack)
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Such good memories, will have to try for more in the near future....


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Memories of Things Past…


 


Elementary school boy’s bathrooms,


High school locker rooms,


Hallways in same high school,


Pictures of old schools inside and out,


Powerful memories, I do shout…


 


Bedrooms over looking the beach,


Sounds of kids playing there just out of reach,


Music from the merry-go-round,


Bumper cars hitting and squealing another sound…


 


Old movies, seen in black and white,


First color ones coming out; oh they were so light,


Games at friend’s houses, out on the beach,


Carrying that raft or surfboard, surfing with the teach…


 


Homes on certain streets, memories of friends gone,


Parents of friends, sunrise over Sea Isle, surfing at dawn,


Riding my bike on Landis Ave,


Seeing the floods from northeast storms,


Driving to Ocean City with dad & mom,


Shopping on Friday nights, get to buy a 45-rpm record, not CD or rom…


 


So many good memories I can relate,


If time did not have any constraints…


                © ed – 3/18/04


 


 


 


 


 


 


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 Reviews of "Memories of Things Past..."
Reviewed by J. Allen Wilson
Reviewed on March 18, 2004
Great write Ed, I like this reflective side of yourself that you have exposed.
Allen

Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on March 18, 2004
Wonderful memories you have, Ed. Don't ever lose them.

Reviewed by Katy Walsvik (Reader)
Reviewed on March 18, 2004
Don't mind the "constraints", Ed... when we dream.. when we reminisce... there are no fences, no walls. You've penned a "slice of life" from the past that sets my own head wandering off.. good stuff. katy xox.

Reviewed by Floria Kelderhouse (Reader)
Reviewed on March 18, 2004
Thank God there are no constraints on the
memory...these are great...a nice trip here Ed..
floria

Reviewed by ya mama (Reader)
Reviewed on March 18, 2004
well done

Reviewed by Tinka Boukes
Reviewed on March 18, 2004
Thanks for sharing Ed!!

love Tinka

Reviewed by Daniel McTaggart
Reviewed on March 18, 2004
So what about the girl's bathrooms? Don't tell me you never saw Porky's.

Reviewed by Rene Swing (Reader)
Reviewed on March 18, 2004
Thank you so much for the trip down memory lane! Yes I too can relate to some of these memories as well.....Ahh, to go back in time, when things were simple back then...


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