Looking to the Skye – Day Twenty-Nine – #NaPoWriMo21
#NaPoWriMo21, Childhood, Mental Health, Other Poetry, Parenting Add commentsHi!
Hope you are all ok?
It is after Midnight and I haven’t got this post out yet because I’ve been reading about our Skye holiday on the blog!!
The prompt on napowrimo.net for Day 29 was to:
Imagine a window looking into a place or onto a particular scene.
So I thought about this pic and then just had to read all the surrounding text, and subsequent other posts…
I did then write a poem, though 😉
Ah, Skye…
Our children in raptures
at the sight of so much sea
from multiple windows.
Boats and people
to make up narratives for.
A ponder or two about
a ‘staring’ red phone box.
How different the world felt then,
and yet we didn’t know
that even the small amount of exploration we managed
would be a wealth of freedom
The air!
The clouds!
The beach trips!
Sunsets that stretched around bridges
that lead out
and joined others to us.
3 and two thirds years later
those views speak volumes,
whilst Eldest and I
tackle fractions,
praying for a reprieve.
Eldest was 7 and Youngest was 4 back in July 2017. How did time move so quickly?! Eldest is now staring down the summer before his last year of Primary School!
Which windows would you rather be looking out of right now?
Take care and I’ll meet you here tomorrow for the last poem of NaPoWriMo 2021!
Monty X
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April 30th, 2021 at 8:46 am
Love it! Well done.
April 30th, 2021 at 11:25 am
Thanks 😊 x
May 2nd, 2021 at 8:12 pm
Lovely poem and then I clicked on the pic and it’s amazing! It brings all the fleetingness that life is.
May 2nd, 2021 at 8:49 pm
Thanks 😀 It was pretty poignant spending time there to mark my 40th!