Sandy Summer Days Comments

I enjoyed all four stanzas for different reasons. The first stanza captures youth from, i feel, a retrospective angle (they were made of sand but they held my dreams) which contrasts nicely with the second stanza that is definitely from a child's point of view(with imagined knights and kings, fiery dragons with massive wings): the rhymes affirming this perhaps. The third stanza links the second and fourth with its switch of tone from the youthful to the sorrowful. The fourth stanza begins with gone and it as if the falling of the sand castle results in the dissolution of youth so that all that remains are memories. I don't rly like appled faced youth but that is just a little thing. Good poem.