PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

as a far too impressionable child

I use to often wonder

just what was up on the hill

across the street

and if I ventured alone very far up

its intimidating banks

what terrible yet unimaginable harm

would I likely meet

if there was indeed such a thing as

a bogey man in those daring carefree days

he was likely no more than an outrageous

figment of a frightened child's over active

imagination

I vaguely recall someone once telling me

Did you know that childhood is little more

than a creative part of life's special

initiation?

looking back rather fondly now

I think I tend to believe them................

(Jan. 7, 1998)