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Balloons are filled

 streamers are strung 

decorated cake 

time for the fun 

games are set up 

hats ready to wear 

punch in it's bowl 

food everywhere.

 looking around 

things all in place 

time to get dressed 

and put on the face 

masks by the door 

awaiting the guests 

chairs on the floor 

band is the best 

come back downstairs 

look all around 

party time here 

and there's no one around 

invites were mailed 

returns back by a few 

now all of this here 

she had nothing to do 

no one here to dance 

nor eat of the cake 

at the door she did glance 

perhaps they're just late 

what would they think 

if she sat there so cool 

sipping her drink 

aside of the pool 

though that sounded great 

band now started to play 

she'd kick up her heels 

and party anyway!  

The bell rings
Children cheer
summer time
if finally here
You can feel
it in the air
children's laughter
everywhere
the bus rolls up
they climb aboard
little princesses
knights with swords
playtime fun
they can truly be
Excited by all
Their eyes can see
If we would just hold on
continue to play our part
Excitement for life
would live in our adult hearts. 

One of the greatest gifts of being a child
Imagination and it's running wild
Castles out of simple boxes or sand
Or fighting wars with plastic green men
Dress up time was always fun to play
Could be someone different every day
Take out the dolls and set table for tea
So many cakes made of play-dough to eat

Another fun time was to go outside and play
Jump rope and hop scotch to start the day
Simon says, Mother May I and Jack n Jill
Rolling in the grass down the biggest hill
Outdoor fun did not stop in the yard
Most days we'd even get into the car
Go to the beach or fishing on the pier
So many things you could do out there

Imagination seems to no longer exist
Most children prefer to stay inside and sit
In front of a screen, be it 7 inches or fifty
They think that you tube is so very nifty
No longer are children learning to play games
They all sit around and all acting the same
Electronic games is all they seem to need
All those fairy-tale stories they no longer read

Oh how nice it would be to look around outside
See a child playing ball or riding a bike
Jumping rope, swinging way up in the sky
While others are racing around to the slide
Take out your child and show them the things
That back in your childhood the memories bring
Go to the park, collect shells on the beach
So many things that to our young we could teach. 

When I was a child
building castles of sand
Yesterday's fun was
imagination of hand
No PC screen or
cell phone to text
I'd jump rope a while
Then see what was next.

It may be a hula hoop
to spin on my waist
may be baton twirling
no time should I waste
friends would come over
we'd sit and play games
life back in the 70's
just wasn't the same

I'd ride my bike for miles
and for miles in a day
then on the weekends
friends would overnight stay
we'd sit around telling ghost
stories and cuddle up close
making sure to protect
each other from ghosts

when morning would come
my mothers breakfast we'd eat
then play a game
see if mom we could beat
Barbie and Ken
were always a win
for days it would rain
and we'd be shut in
boxes of clothes, corvette car
and even a beauty shop
play all day long till at last
we would want to drop

Yesterday seems not
so long ago
when I was a child
building castles of snow.
Armies of snowmen
surrounded it then
life as a child
was so great way back when.

What a day
To spend at the fair
Laughter of children
Filling the air;
Blooming Onions,
Candy Apples
Cotton Candy
So much to sample.

Memories made
such a fun day
Wishing these times
Never would go away

How I wish we could
Spend all our days like this
Laughing and playing
Times I truly do miss.

Soon it will be
Fair time again
Time for more laughter
With family and friends.

Memories made
And years after
Remembered again
With a beautiful picture!