originally published by me in july 2014 on Bubblews

Sunny lakeside days
Coconut oil in the air
Grainy sand between my toes
Tanning bodies, skin to bare
Live bait and fishing poles
Conversations with my dad
Evenings angling at the lake
Some of the best I had
Afternoons at my country home
In the sun, with a book
Baby oil and iodine
To achieve that Coppertone look
Baseball games fill the night
To watch or to play
KC Royals on the radio
In their Eighties heyday
A symphony of cicadas
Sweet sounds of the night
Spiders and grasshoppers
Giving me a fright
Farmers with their tractors
Golden bales of hay
Working the fields of their livelihood
Every sunny summer day
Though the memories are hazy now
And the details have begun to fade
The stories I must tell to mine
My childhood happiness conveyed
Photo Credit: my own
+Poetry +Jillybean1222