Thursday, August 11, 2022

A Rosary of Childhood Summers - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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A Rosary of Childhood Summers

 

“And summer’s lease hath all too short a date”

 

-Shakespeare, Sonnet 18

 

Between infancy and adolescence

Ten summers form a crown of memories

An Eden of bare feet and ice cream bars

That inform the dreams of our after-years

 

Each day is its own rosary of life

Those works and books and thoughts and ordinary chores

That with their attendant offerings and prayers

Give meaning to the mysteries of life

 

But we tell best those holy beads of youth

Whose innocent joys began our search for Truth

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