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  There Will Always Be Rebels

  6-Mar-2021

  Browsing through an old portable hard drive, I have discovered some old writing... including some of my terrible, hilarious, weird poetry. This one goes, I think, with the post about how the curmudgeons always claim these kids are the 'worst ever'... check that one out here.

  Apologies are probably in order, but here goes:

  There Will Always Be Rebels  

  In the stillness of morning air

  3 small branches dancing there

  The apple tree is old and staid

  But in its small twigs, breezes played.

  'Settle down, you young'uns, there!'

  'You're going to get in someone's hair!'

  'Cut it out, you're such a clown'

  'Stop it or someone will cut you down'

  The voices called out in the dawn

  But twigs and branches danced full on

  As if they could not hear the strife

  Dancing, singing, full of life-sustaining

  As if to say

  'Life is dancing, swaying'

  'No memory remains of playing?'

  Hardened wood of olden days

  Value now, not youthful ways

  Even as the new growth plays

  Right they are and right they'll stay

  Creating rebels of innocent ways.

  by Linda Clement, copyright  2010

   

  And then complaining about their creation.

   

  Linda Clement is a parenting coach who works with highly successful parents who are seeking to break the cycle of transgenerational trauma. If you're ready to leave a legacy your great-grandchildren will thrive with, you're invited to start here with half an hour on Linda's calendar...

  Tags: youth, old people, worst generation ever, curmudgeons, rebels, teen fun, playing

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  Diane Young says (9-Mar-2021):

  Love it!