Before micro-waves, dishwashers
Riding mowers, computers, cell-phones
Before instant potatoes, rice, oatmeal or pizza
Before instant anything
Before gyms to de-stress
Or talk of fitness
Before X-box, i-pod, Nintendo
You-tube, game-boy and 500 TV channels
There were twenty-four hour days
Of hard-work…and play
…and front-porches in the evening
With families on them
© Janet Martin
Poetics Aside Prompt: write a poem about something before your time.
First of all, I love the picture! Secondly, I love the closing line about porches with families on them.
ReplyDeleteThis resonates with me, Janet. When I was a kid, we did not have air conditioning. Kids played outside in the dark. After a while when kids returned home they and their parents sat on front porches as long as possible and said hello to other neighbors as they walked by. Memories!
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