Today is National Poetry Day – be sure to join in! http://nationalpoetryday.co.uk/join-in/
This year’s theme is messages…
When I was but a teenage boy,
I left a message in a bottle.
I wasn’t one for thinking then,
Living life full throttle.
I tossed it far off to the sea,
Watched it float away.
Wondering who would find it:
What on earth they’d say!
Much to my surprise,
Years later, fully grown,
The postie brought my bottle back:
“Return to sender:
address unknown”
Picture credit: flickr.com/photos/kevlewis/15372562472
A Certain Point of View 
That’s a neat story. Kind of sad there was no way to track where it had gone.
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Lost in the mysteries of the story… 🙂
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Those darned unanswered questions!
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🙂
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Wonderful.
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Thanks Dorna ❤
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That choked me up a bit. Not sure why, but it packed a little punch to the heart. You’re so good, my friend.
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Aw, thank you Rita. Can’t resist tugging at those heartstrings now and again 🙂
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And you do it so very well. Glad to be your friend, you amazing Poet.
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Big ❤
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Aw darn. Seems that the message was intended for the older self.
I’d love to find a message in a bottle.
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Me too. There’s something magical about it. It’d be a great story prompt… Hmm (thinks) 🙂
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Fantastic, Al. What an intriguing and romantic notion is the message in a bottle. I love the idea!
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Me too! Those little mystery messages from the past 🙂
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A tiny time machine…
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Especially if the bottle is blue, and panelled 🙂
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YES! 😍
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“Doctor, whoever you are… when you said you had a time machine, I pictured something… bigger.”
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I love it!
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I accidentally hit “enter” before the punchline…
“It’s bigger on the inside”
“That’s what they all say”
🙂
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Ahahahaha!!!!!
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Love the idea of a message in a bottle.. awesome AND Happy National Poetry Day! 🙂
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Thank you, my friend… It’s a good job I live so far from the coast, or I’d be littering the sea with poems in a bottle all the time!
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I see… As that would mean I would have to get myself a water vessel so as to scour the pond for some corked glass.
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So, relief all round then, right? 🙂
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Quite a learning for me. Enjoyed this poetry
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Thank you, Joel 🙂
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You’re welcome.
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Aww. This is sweet, Al. I’ve never sent a message in a bottle but I’d love to find one. That would be fun. 🙂
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I think so too! I’m going to take some bottles next time I go to the beach 🙂
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Ooh, you should! That would be fun!
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Well, at least it wasn’t because of insuficient postage.
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Haha! 🙂
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How did the postman get it through the letterbox slot? Or was it a really tiny bottle?
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I hope you’re not bringing logic into this… (shakes head)… 🙂
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You started it! (pokes out tongue)
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😀
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Awe, too bad there was no response. But at least he got a little piece of the past with his childhood letter. 😉
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True… hadn’t thought of it like that. I’d love to get a little letter from child Al!
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Beautiful
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Thank you, Ickarus 🙂
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You write good.
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It doesn’t feel like that every day, but thanks for saying it!
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Its for you to write and feel for us,cheers!
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😀
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