Image: An Outing is Always Fun (here)
the 11 of 12 given words:
turns, ripens, walk, pleasure, measure
belong, horse, empty, belts, cancer, silver,
back to school turns out to be one of mixed feelings
it ripens the build-up of excitements into reality
it may invoke the sweaty long walks in the mornings
or the pleasure of a bus ride for the privileged many
some may take it as an opportunity of making new friends
others as a measure of wanting to be seen as 'little experts'
some others as an obligation to appease dominating parents
whatever it takes it belongs to a childhood long remembered
there are occasions of trying to lead a horse to water
the obstinate who sees school as an 'empty' requirement
nothing under their belts but enhancing a dreaded cancer
later regretting not reaching for gold but a silver performance
whatever the outcome later in life as adults one treasures
all the joys and fun but not forgetting all the added tears
Amaya's at d'Verse's Poetics - back to school
MMT's Sunday's Whirligig #175
Some just see it as a hindrance indeed, but if you learn to enjoy, you'll remember all of it years later.
ReplyDeleteIt's a chance at a good life.
ReplyDeleteAlthough here, it was living hell to take the bus.
As a former high school English teacher -- in the early 1970s -- I smiled at the "trying to lead a horse to water" line :)
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the variety of ways of looking at the new school year and the closing lines. Quite accurate.
ReplyDeleteNice last two lines of not forgetting and treasuring.
ReplyDeleteI agree about the mixed emotions thinking of going back to school invokes, but I can't say for sure that apathy towards something of absolutely no intrinsic interest breeds a form of cancer, metaphoric or otherwise.
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