2007-05-13

1021. Swinging

The boys cross
the wooded countryside,
tree to tree.

10 comments:

Masago said...

1021. Swinging

The boys cross
the wooded countryside,
tree to tree.

Link with 1020: Treetop.

[My Dad and his three brothers grew up on a farm. There was a lot of bush nearby where the cows would wander and graze during the day. It was the boys' job to round up the cows before night time so they would be milked. They found a good way to cover a lot of densely-covered ground quickly by climbing the slender poplars and swinging from tree to tree.]

Borut said...

Just joking: sounds to me like 'step by step', only more Tarzan-like. I remember one of my rare swinging attempts. I fell from the tree, luckily, without any serious consequences, except that I stopped imitating the man from the jungle....

floots said...

somewhere between robert frost and johnny weissmuller
thanks for this one

Masago said...

Borut: *smile* That would have been good see.

Floots: Thanks. Although I wasn't there to witness this I did see the type of woods that it took place in. It was tempting not to give it a try myself.

polona said...

ah, the adventurous timesof boyhood :)
nice

Pat Paulk said...

Like Borut I immediately thought of Tarzan and cheetah. The influence of television.

get zapped said...

I adore the imagery of this and the childhood memories it provokes. Nice!

Masago said...

Polona: Yes, I'm afraid some of us are still in our boyhoods. :-)

Pat: AHH-EEE-AAH-EEEE-OOOO-EEEE-AHHH!

GZ: Thanks!

Pamela said...

hohohoho... I knew a guy that went swinging on birches... EXCEPT it turned out they were quaking aspen and he fell quite a distance.

he was tooo onery to get hurt, tho.

Masago said...

Pamela: Ouch!