A Greener Childhood

Living Poetry prompt – Discovery

Looking for my lost childhood
deep in the luscious green

I was once delighted
in the gossamer
of my innocent face
looking into the reflection
of the calm river

With each erosion of the bank
I grew older
as the tree trunks grew thicker
until the familiar path
became unrecognisable
overtaken by years of absence

Searching but not finding
the same joy
when a world discovered
to be greyer
beyond the forest gate

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Author: Cassa Bassa

🇦🇺🇨🇳 inquisitive, observant, witty, a thinker, was a misfit child 😊

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  6. Excellent piece.

    I love how the final stanza reads as an incomplete sentence, which leaves the reader with an even stronger sense of that searching feeling, and that feeling (since it’s the end of the piece) that what they’re searching for may not be discoverable.

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