how times have changed

08 Nov 2018

how times have changed

do you remember me when I was
only so old
making friends with elephants walking
through walls
and unripe bananas
cracking jokes from inside wicker
basket on breakfast
table

I like chocolate milk better
than off-white
pour it on rice krispies
proceed to paint my baby face
making all the angels
(sitting around me)
giggling
like a circle of children

we used to go on these
day trips
around the world and back
feeding the hungry
and clothing the naked
back when world population
barely totaled
three billion

november two thousand eighteen
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Posted in Poetry and tagged poem, Poetry

9 thoughts on “how times have changed”

thewintersdance on November 8, 2018 at 9:20 pm said:

This is beautiful! Thank you the reminder that one should always be ready to serve – and less ready to take. 🙏🏻

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- j matthew waters on November 8, 2018 at 9:34 pm said:
  
  Thank you very much for reading and commenting on this poem.
  
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Shawna on November 9, 2018 at 6:46 am said:

I love this to pieces, John!!!

“making friends with elephants walking
through walls
and unripe bananas
cracking jokes from inside wicker”

❤

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- j matthew waters on November 9, 2018 at 7:26 am said:
  
  Thank you, Shawna.
  
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- Sleep deprived on June 21, 2019 at 8:29 am said:
  
  I hear giraffes are pretty friendly too. 😏
  
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Björn Rudberg (brudberg) on November 11, 2018 at 2:40 am said:

Love this… sometimes thinking about it myself… time flies and everything have changed.

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- j matthew waters on November 11, 2018 at 8:02 am said:
  
  Glad you love this one, thanks so much!
  
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mkrashes on November 11, 2018 at 9:25 am said:

everyone should have “fruit friends” !

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- j matthew waters on November 11, 2018 at 9:35 am said:
  
  Yes indeed!
  
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