This week’s theme for Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge is summer fun. I have already posted a haiku about sitting in the shade, writing and sipping an iced beverage. However, I am realizing that my best experience of summer fun comes from childhood. I’ve since had fun camping and attending music festivals, but nothing really tops the excitement of our three-week family summer holidays. Perhaps I am romanticizing, but there is an essence that I hold… the pure joy of playing in and on a lake all day, and then at night swinging under a tree or sitting on a dock listening to the water.
My family is not at all sporty, but where we stayed there were water-skiing enthusiasts who believed everybody could water-ski…I learned how, without any fancy tricks mind you, and loved the feeling:
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Flying in the wind,
Shimmering glass, bouncing waves,
Joyful summer fun.
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The only downside of water-skiing was the water pollution caused by the boat engine. As I progressed into my teens I started to feel uneasy about this. Now I favor canoes, kayaks and rowboats. Here is a picture of me at about age 12 in a rowboat on one of our summer holidays:
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There’s so many good memories to be made spending time by the lake. I do not care for the pollution from the boat engines either.
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And now people race around on sea-doos as well.
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I hate those things. They are so loud!
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A lovely immediate haiku even though its past memory. That is choppy water you were tackling, any sharks?
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Thanks Denis…it’s a strong memory. HaHa about the sharks comment (referencing our previous conversation) fortunately our fresh water lakes are free of snapping jaws 🙂
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Don’t forget the Jaws movies were filmed in a water tank!!!
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I didn’t know that! I think that was my first terrifying movie.
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I love this haiku, Janice, capturing the feeling of freedom and magic on the water. It’s odd isn’t it how childhood memories are the strongest for summer fun – is that because it was a time without worries and responsibilities? Lovely photo of you rowing; you look so happy and at peace.
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Thanks Annika. I was thinking about why the summer childhood memories stand out so much too and I came to the same conclusion…probably because it was pure play with none of the adult concerns that were involved later on. Plus the magic of first experiences…
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Lovely haiku, really captures the spirit of childhood fun in Summer.
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Thank you 🙂
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How cute is that picture? I love it! A truly joyful haiku. 🙂
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Thanks Vashti 🙂
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