Seeing all the precious first-day-of-school photos
tugs at the strings of mom-hearts at the other end of school-days spectrum
Pinch Me!! Where did that seemingly-endless season slip?!
The lane is quiet now...
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The lane is quiet now
No mother’s prayers flung aft
Her precious troop of scholars
No frantic antics, wept-laughed
The lane is quiet now
Save echoes, bittersweet
No toast and jam dashed after one
Who had no time to eat
No new-shoes-backpack joy
Or belly-butterflies
Or darling little girl and boy
Tugging at mom’s heart-ties
No watching that old clock
Dwindle the minutes till
‘Hurry, hurry!! You’ll miss the bus!’
Repeats its frenzied drill
That once-upon-a-time
Forever-long somehow
Unraveled into mist-kissed clime
The lane is quiet now
© Janet Martin
That once-upon-a-time
Forever-long somehow
Unraveled into mist-kissed clime
The lane is quiet now...
(the last first-day-of-school exactly 6 years ago now!)
The lane is quiet now
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