A Boatload of Memories

December 2, 2012 at 4:09 pm · Filed under Family, Mostly true, Stories ·Tagged Charles L. Mashburn, childhood memories, family, good old days, http://kellieelmore.com/2012/03/30/fwf-your-one-amazing-summer/, just an old boat, lake, story, uncle marvin, water skiing, writer

I wrote this in story form a few years ago, but it fits this week’s dVerse Poet Pub’s “Poetics” prompt, so I poeticized it this morning. The dVerse prompt was titled “Missing You”, and if there’s one thing I miss more than any other, it’s the good old days and those fun times with my aunts, uncles, cousins, and the rest of my extended family. We’re scattered all over the country these days, and it just don’t seem right.

A Boatload of Memories

 

It was just an old boat

Leaning sadly to one side

Weeds grown up all around it

Paint chipped and faded

Motor gone

 

As I stood on the path gazing at it

I saw my Uncle Marvin

Driving the boat, grinning

Pulling me and Ed around the lake

Me and Ed wearing matching grins

That wouldn’t come off for days

 

Summer days when we were kids

Man… them was the good old days

Riding in the car

Me and Ed huddled at the window

Watching for that first glimpse of water

 

Then… screaming in unison

There it is!

Shimmering in the noonday sun

The cool water calling our names

As we jostled and giggled

In giddy adolescent anticipation

 

Yes, just an old boat

Forlorn in the lakeside weeds

A faded forgotten relic to some

But a boatload of memories to me

I miss those childhood days

 

Copyright © 2012 C Mashburn

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