Fifty years later
Memories so sweet
Still held close
First airplane trip
To Europe – Switzerland
For the summer
With two teachers
Eighteen seventeen year-olds
To learn French
Eat real cheese
Drink red wine
Away from home
Fresh alpine air
Mountains of chocolate
Tastes of freedom
Note: This poem originated during Poetry Toolkit with Katie through CPL – Apr 26 – 3 word lines
About Carol Good
Since retiring, Carol has redirected her creativity into writing – mostly poetry. Her pandemic projects have included publishing of her first poetry collection – Alive & 65: a celebration for her 65th birthday and joining the League of Canadian Poets. She lives in an octagonal century home with her very handy husband located on the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. She recognizes the land as being home and traditional territory to other Indigenous people since time immemorial.
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