Challenge
A Nostalgic Poem (in metaphor or simile)
Watching children run through sprinklers, I was struck by nostalgia. Write a poem about your childhood or something sweetly nostalgic, but use a metaphor or simile that particularly relates to it. For example, the children I was watching said the water looked like "silver dolphins" (I'll add my example poem).
No more than 60 words. Nostalgia can be sweet, but often short.
Imprints in the Imagination
...the impressions of footprints walking away...
but these are so very beautiful aren't they...?
and we're truly grateful to see as many everyday,
even if half-the-world on their shoulders does verily weigh
what relief to know, and again even more so to convey
our appreciation for the thoughts aloft that sway...
....always tiptoeing back to us in Poetry's ephemeral way