before when?

time before the net and phones and technology like computers was born

the simple days

the good old days

the school yard elastics

the marbles in the dirt

the ball games on windy afternoons

the dirt upon my shirt

the hide and seek

the kiss and tell

the I spy with my little eye

the whats the time mr wolf games

the simon says party games

the drop the hankerchief games

all good

all good times

another time 

another place

what planet was I on then

the same one just a different set of rules

different fun times to be had

yes computers and phones and internet aint it grand

but give me a manual typewriter

and a mr whippy ice cream van

on a sunday afternoon

we would queue up and get the delights

they still come around

but the kids don't put up much of a fight

they have too many things to do all day

that's why most of them are in their rooms all day

on putters on mobiles and sending smileys out

into the wild

bring me back dem good old days

when a kid could be just a child

Reviews

[Quickbeam]

Great poem definitely can relate to this (apart from dirty skirts). Childhood days for me in the early 80s were allot more simple..

[Julie McCarthy (juliesp..]

for overseas readers not in australia, elastics was a game girls played in primary in school also marbles was for younger boys and girls and the other party games were all the rage 60s and 70s.
Mr whippy is still an ice cream van that goes around the suburbs on weekends, playing his familar tune.