Thursday, August 6, 2015

TURNING 75 ON THIS AUGUST MORNING...

GIRL WITH TRIKE AND LITTLE BROTHERS, CIRCA 1946

SENIOR YEARBOOK 1958
 
"SEE-CHANGE"   

Where's the young girl who used to live
Behind this aging face?
Where is the girl who climbed the trees
And moved with speed and grace?
Where is the child whose hair swung free,
Whose skin was smooth and white,
Whose face looked wide-eyed at the world,
Whose teeth were sound and bright?
Where is the laughing tomboy-kid
Who pranced in the summer sun,
Who skated down the city streets,
Whose strong young legs could run?
Where is the girl with the springtime soul,
Whose laughing spirit sang?
She's in there somewhere singing yet;
It's what you SEE that's changed!
 

    ---rose moore, Aug 6, 1993
 

(Three-quarters-of-a-century old on this 6th day of August, 2015).