Open Poetry #49 |
I'm Still Here (from Boyhood Tales) |
jwesley Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563Spring, Texas |
I'm still here, I mailed, still the same, chaste, powerfully in love, just as when I left, just as when the Navy whisked me to the Pacific's surface to live on an island of three-thousand men, hundred's of planes, a lust to be home. I'm still here, although your letters are missed, and I fear the words of my friends are true; you're not as faithful as I, have chosen a path divergent from mine, and I, on a ship of three-thousand men, am alone in an ocean replete with hearts that have died – death as surely as those at the bottom of the sea. I'm still here, I mailed . . . I'm still here. Waiting © wesley james beard, jr. september 2009 Note: This one actually is about me (and of course many I knew back then, married and not) - Back in the early '60's, in the South China Sea, USS Hornet (air craft carrier) - received my first (and only) Dear John letter. Sucked! (Please don't assume everything I write is based on my personal life...) |
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latearrival Member Ascendant
since 2003-03-21
Posts 5499Florida |
I can well imagine how hard that last letter from her was to take in. Best , Jo |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
Jimmy, Breaking up is hard to do, as the song goes. I can't begin to imagine the pain under those circumstances. I guess the only consolation is that you were on a ship full of very sympathetic souls. And it made for a very good write! ~L |
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Rex Allen McCoy Member Elite
since 2000-01-30
Posts 2863Sippin a Timmy's in London |
Did a stint in the Canadian Army, early 70s. I was lucky, the letters kept coming. Others weren't as lucky we all felt it when one of our buddies was down and out. I can really feel your thoughts in this piece... Well done |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
Too many Dear John letters have reached and broken waiting hearts. Excellent write! |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
Must have been a sad and lonely time. Ida |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California |
That's a really lousy feeling when you know something's up yet still can't let go of all hope because you haven't actually read the words yet. Something I wouldn't wish upon anyone. Michael |
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jwesley Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563Spring, Texas |
One of those lessons learned, you know? I mean, about the fallacy in the line . . . "Absence makes the heart grow fonder" . . . definitely have to have more going for you than that... and in the teenage years ... Good Luck!! lol j. |
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