CANDY COATED TIMES

Jolly ranchers, Charleston chews,
Swedish fish, Caramel cubes
Sour patch kids, Hersey kisses

I can remember Christmas wishes
asking for bags full of candy
poverty it seemed kept them

in my dreams since money

was short and for tikes like me

money was never handy

Jelly bean bowls, Tootsie rolls,
Sour pears, Cherry gummy bears
Rock candy, and Good & Plenty

Wide eyed is a child when

there are sites to see or in the joy

of the many tastes that can be,

sticky fingered linted lollipops

were always better than any still in It's wrapper

Do you remember click clackers?

Gobstoppers, gummy lobsters
Peanuts chews, Mary Jane's
Chocolate money, and Bit'o honey

These days I get a kick
Watching my daughter in awe
Walking in the candy store
I share in her moments,
I pray It's what fathers are for...
With her smile as big as cheese
In that I fulfill a need  in me

and swim in a wealth of love

And to a degree
I awaken the kid in me
But this time with money
to taste those old memories again

Candy buttons, peanut butter cups,
Sugar daddy, chuckles,

giant gummy cola bottles.

Reviews

[Cassie Fraga]

mmmhhmmm... peanut butter cups... thats what ima chewin on right now... hahaha!!! this was a fun read!!

[Sleepless]

omg i love cola bottles and candy !!!!! on friday i went to islands and there was this candy store me and my friend bought this huge back of candy and it awesome i love the poem old times when youwere a kid will always be easy and happy :)

[roarke]

Marvelous write. It swings. the killer stanza's are four and six. Not too much and not too little, you hit all the jelly-bellies just right. I've got a cavity ridden smile right now.