An Eclipse Is Happening on the Eighth of April 2024
An acrostic mention of the experience of four.
There is an eclipse coming real soon. I haven't noticed many since I was but a child. I remember that time with fondness.
Eye protection is so important in an eclipse to see
Children love to be involved, I did back in the 60s
Let me see, I was probably eight, or nine in 62, and 63
I wore my dad's welding helmet and there were three
People watching with me
Steve wasn't born yet and Pat was too young.
Every eclipse in the early 60s, I remember being with Dad, how Carrie and Chuck clung to me was rad with eyes closed so they wouldn't see the sun!
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Denise E Lindquist
I am married with 7 children, 27 grands, and 12 great-grandchildren. I am a culture consultant part-time. I write A Poem a Day in February for 8 years now. I wrote 4 - 50,000 word stories in NaNoWriMo. I write on Vocal/Medium weekly.
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It's really wonderful when you think about it...how these supernatural events bring people together to make memories, imaginations expand, and memories are made.
This is a Rad poetry of your wonderful experience of the eclipse in your youth . Love it especially the part using the wielding helmet ♥️😎🌒🤩
Such wonderful memories! Loved your poem!
Great 🫶🏻
I wasn't born till '64, but I remember a few solar eclipses when in school for it was a part of a science lesson and we had these cards we looked at. I remember one solar eclipse I sat on my backyard swing and listened to nighttime creatures at 2PM I think the time was. I would read this as part of a preschool or kindergarten science lesson.