SUMMER IS HERE!
Come!
Let us walk together, you and I
The evening is calm,
the air is warm,
Summer is here ...
Well Livvie, that’s how Mom and Dad
would say it … oldies!
We’ll say it OUR way!
Livvie laughed,
taking in the gorgeous New Zealand sea breeze.
Sure, Noah! You know best!!
…giggling as she squeezed him.
So Livvie, here goes, gorgeous …
Let’s keep our hearts and minds on high things
Let’s see delight in our kids
Let’s marvel as day breaks
Let’s sleep til noon, Let’s …
NOAH! Shuh!! Your’e attracting attention.
We’re not the only ones on this beach!
I know!
I’m performing!!!
Now, where was I? Oh yeah…
Let’s walk together, hand in hand
like we always do.
Let’s look to the future.
See wide open spaces teeming with people
See the walkways and boulevards,
piers and dunes
filled with noise, the raucous delight of our kids,
then seeing them resting again when we kiss them goodnight
and turn out the light.
Hey Livvie, let’s even look forward to grandkids!
Peace, though saying not a word,
because they sense from Ma and Pa
that danger has passed.
We’ve gotta seize the day Livvie!
Seize the hour!
We have to think this,
How does your dad put it?
Oh yeah.. ‘imbue’
To imbue this within the tissue and fibre
of our very souls and being…
I like that bit Noah.
But don’t tell dad otherwise he’ll
think he’s Keats, Edwards and Shakespeare
all rolled up into one!!!
Noah picked her up by the waist,
wizzing her round and round.
Put me down Noah!!!
in fits of delightful giggles.
Now hang on Livvie,
I’ve lost my thread.
Yep, Noa-bouy! Your Ma says you do that a lot!!!
“For you and …”
Ah yeah, stop it. Got it. Got it… Hang on…
(seriously concentrating, his index finger
emphasising each syllable)
For you and I are but One.
We are two halves of one whole
Knit together.
No happenchance!
Or summat like that.
We are meant to be.
And it is this – this Confidence – that indwells us
and is the anchor, our future, our family, our life
and, yes, life after too.
As someone once said and I know who,
one soul in two bodies …
Well, we certainly know that to be true.
So, come on Livvie, race you to the point …
And now Ma and Pa’s more sedate version that seems to stand the test of time for oldies like me
Come!
Let us walk together, you and I
The evening is calm,
the air is warm,
Look! Summer IS here ... … …
Let us keep our hearts and minds on high things
Let us see delight in our children
Let us marvel at the breaking of the day
Let us slumber at the noon day
Let us walk together, hand in hand
as we have always done.
Let us look to the future.
Let us see wide open spaces teeming with people
Let us see the walkways and boulevards,
the piers and the dunes
filled with the throng and delight of children at play,
of our children resting again,
of our grandchildren, in peace, though saying not a word,
because they sense from their parents
that the danger has passed.
Let us seize the day
Let us seize the hour
Let us think this
and imbue this within the tissue and fibre
of our very souls and being.
For you and I are but One
We are two halves of one whole
We are knit together.
There is no happenchance!
We are meant to be.
And it is this – this Confidence – that indwells us
and is the anchor, our future, our family, our life
and, yes, life after too.
As someone once said and i know who,
one soul in two bodies …
Well, we certainly know that to be true.
So, Come!
Let us walk together, you and I
The evening is calm,
the air is warm,
Look! Summer IS here ... … …
29 May 2023
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© Kenneth Thomas Webb 2022-2023
Composed a few minutes ago, 29 October 2020 10:43 pm UK Time
The revised version, gives us the same poem through the eyes of Livvie and Noah, out in New Zealand,
and their Ma and Pa, Steve and Heidi.
Pa’s a songwriter and performer, and has that gift of writing in several genres
this revised version composed today, 2 May 2023.
© 2023 KTW
Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.
He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.
Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.
In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.
