Community Corner
Labor Day Ode to a Swimming Pool
For many years Around Town Laura resisted the siren call of the Lifetime pool. This year she caved. On the day that pools are closing around town, here's her heartfelt good-bye.
Ode To a Swimming Pool
Blue, blue, blue
That's the color of you
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My Lifetime swimming pool.
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For years I resisted your siren call
"Too expensive"
"Too crowded"
Excuses — I had them all.
This year something softened my hardened heart,
I jumped (no diving allowed) right in at summer's start.
How did we manage to live apart?
(My house was a lot cleaner, that's a start.)
The swimming test my kids both passed
My eldest loved to swim his laps
My youngest lived to ride the slide
I watched sweet summer days slip by
At the side of you, swimming pool.
There was always a friend — or five — to be found
On sunny chairs us Moms would lounge,
And discuss the way that ends
While children laugh and splash with friends.
Blue, blue, blue
Is how I feel
As summer comes to an end
No more days lounging at the pool, my little ones are off to school.
Not so little, but bigger growing
How I wish to make time slowing!
But on lonely winter days so cold and cruel,
I'll have warm memories of the swimming pool.
(Editor's note: An ode to a pool? Has Laura gone insane?
Let's say too much chlorine on her brain.)