Porch Swing Promises
Gathering on the front porch has become a rare occurrence nowadays with so many other distractions we have in our busy electronic age.
Many would rather flip a switch or push a button to interact socially anymore.
Gone are the days of storytelling from grandpa and grandma sitting on the old wooden porch swing, sipping a glass of cold, cold ice tea, and feeling the cool breeze in your hair.
My grandfather's house had a huge wrap around porch with wood slatted floors and old stone columns where my grandmother grew magnificent roses and porch boxes full of cascading flowers.
Years ago, the old porch was the gathering place for our family. Generations of children played out their fantasies, family picnics were held and precious words of wisdom and promises were whispered in young ears on the old porch swing.
Porch swing promises are so important. They have lasted a lifetime for me.
If you have a child, grandchild, or even a close friend, spend some time just talking on the porch this summer.
Pass on a memory and make some porch swing promises yourself.
Grandma Luna's Porch
Purple clematis and roses red
Line your porch of stone columns and slatted floors
Where pink inpatients wink from their boxes of bounty
And soft winds whisper 'round
"Sit a spell, take a sip ~
chains of age will hold us safe"
Your tiny foot
To pedal the sway
One touch from you and life bloomed
On that ancient porch so long ago ~
Holding me tight to your thin cotton dress,
"Oh child, what will you grow to be?"
Sea green eyes turn to sky blues
Hair entwining of golden flax,
"Grandma, I only want to be ~
like you"
~ Donna Kluesner
Donna is president and founder of the Carnegie Heritage & Arts Center of Greene County. She can be reached at www.mcklues@gmail.com .
- -- Posted by Donna K on Tue, Jun 25, 2013, at 10:24 AM
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