Reminiscing by the sea

Reminiscing By The Sea

Childhood long gone

In yellowed photographs remembered

A pink lampshade a wallpapered room

Summer socks polka dots and pigtails

First cherries in grand-père’s orchard

Joined at the stems hung like earrings

I played pretend in adults’ shoes

And changed my name to Daphné

After all how boring the ordinary

And twelve felt so very ordinary

Fourteen for sure had to be different

In yellowed photographs

Childhood remembered

Summer camp with girlish girls

In southern France by the sea

Twelve fourteen seventeen

Pigtails and summer camp long gone

First heartache giggles and tears

He loves me he loves me not

The hell with bourgeois conventions

Or so I thought

“Muguet des bois” in May

Singing “La Bohème”

John Lennon long gone

Horizons in tangerine still glow

In yellowed photographs

Sentiments remembered

Days of summer camp

In southern France by the sea

Silenced in the wind

Above the cliffs

Childhood long gone

Yvette Isabelle Stenzel