Nostalgia

[Sparkydashforth]

From a bench on a bluff in a park off a street.......from the start you set up a strong rhythmic beat, and set up a neat little scene.
with a school and a church and a mill that ground wheat,.........the rhyme and beat are perfect
there’s a view of a lake that’s so grey and so bleak............
not sure of repeated 'so' but it does lend a kind of nursery rhyme flavor to the work
that I’d sit and pretend I was looking at feet.............now this is unexpected!

There’s a field by the shops where the children would play.............nice scene setting
with our baseballs and bats ‘til one mother would say.....................feels a little awkward
“All you kids should go home, or there’ll be hell to pay”
but my dad was a drunk, and could not be waylaid...................nice dash of realism here

There were folks in the town that were folksy and sweet
like the butcher’s wife Joan who would package our meat,.............dude that's a sweet couplet.
who opined with a smile that our cut was unique
having been the hind leg of a stillborn black sheep................delish acerbic last words.

A highly musical and well crafted work.