Couldn't Sleep, Oh Yeah It Was Today, so Many Years Ago

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Open Poetry #49

Couldn't Sleep, Oh Yeah It Was Today, so Many Years Ago

icebox
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since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

0 posted 2014-07-02 12:39 PM

Papa's prose first blew my mind when I was just a kid,
of all the writers I had read
he was the one who really knew
to lay it out for good and true
without cluttered wordy mystery,
then he turned me upside down in ‘61
when he ate the barrel of his favorite gun
and segued into history.

©2014 by icebox

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latearrival
Member Ascendant

since 2003-03-21

Posts 5499
Florida

1 posted 2014-07-02 12:51 PM

SO sorry Charly. I remember your poem about holding his hand when he lay dying. All such sad memories to have to hold on to. best to you,
jo

Redstart
Senior Member

since 2014-05-16

Posts 535

2 posted 2014-07-02 06:07 AM

No cluttered, wordy mystery here. Brief and oh, so tragic. Quite brilliant in its delivery; a literary bunch of fives, smack-bang on the chin.

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

3 posted 2014-07-02 08:47 AM

oh...how deeply sad ~*~ great poem to do him homage, though~*~

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

4 posted 2014-07-02 09:11 AM

Your last lines caught me so off guard I gasped out loud! Brilliant writing.

Lori

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

5 posted 2014-07-02 01:27 PM

Deeply poignant, dear Charly!

Margherita

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

6 posted 2014-07-03 05:57 AM

I wrote a poem about a friend who did the same thing and was censored. Sad as it may be it is a part of life for some of us.
Ida

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