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Back of the Bonneville |
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Corinne Member Ascendant
since 1999-10-28
Posts 5167state of confusion 
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Back of the Bonneville He arrived without warning, a cyclone of tooting horn and glinting steel in a robin's egg blue convertible, and whisked us away, top down, my brother in front, me in the back, high into the Julian mountains on a summer’s day in 1968. I was nine and didn’t know much about life, but my mind briefly processed the irony that mom’s station wagon had recently been taken to pay off Dad’s drinking debts. Dad didn’t care much for seatbelts, I stretched out on the long seat, watched light dance through trees, forgot about our divorce, or where to place that blame, feeling only joy. © 2000 Corinne Bailey |
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SpitFire Member Elite
since 2000-04-19
Posts 2396 |
~Corinne,...wow,...I love how you write. How you take a memory and capture it and put it into words so well. So, so well. This just reads in the coolest way. Like I can hear it coming right from you. Thank you for sharing it. *Peace. |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
Irony indeed... the things that leave an impression with us the things we learn young ... watching the adults play grown up ... excellent poem of the obsevations of life C, your trademark talent, poet friend. later, jm ~LEAVE~ It's amazing How you make your face just like a wall How you take your heart and turn it off How I turn my head and you lose it all And it's unnerving How one move just puts me by myself There you go just trusting someone else Now I know I put us both through hell I'm not sayin That there was nothing wrong I just didn't think you'd ever get tired of me And I'm not sayin We ever had the right to hold on I just didn't wanna let you get away from me ~MB20~ "she says its cold outside and she hands me my rain coat... shes always worried about things like that"... ..."She says baby, It's 3am I must be lonely"... ~MB20~ |
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Sudhir Iyer Member Ascendant
since 2000-04-26
Posts 6943Mumbai, India : now in Belgium |
Sheer talent shines through you poetry as ever Corinne.... I enjoyed this like I have enjoyed each other one from you... Regards, Sudhir. |
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Corinne Member Ascendant
since 1999-10-28
Posts 5167state of confusion |
Wow, thanks for those very kind words, Spitfire! Thank you also, Janet Marie and Sudhir. Corinne |
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SEA 
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Member Seraphic
since 2000-01-18
Posts 22676with you |
Corinne~ I saw so much.....this is very touching.......I'll echo SpitFire and say you captured it perfectly.  -SEA |
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Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Corinne~ Wonderful ! Funny where a memory can take us, huh ? Thanks for the ride, my friend. ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ noles1@totcon.com |
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Kit McCallum
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Member Laureate
since 2000-04-30
Posts 14774Ontario, Canada |
You write with such wonderful imagery and emotion Corinne ... I too, enjoyed the ride! Well done! Best wishes, /Kit |
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RAM Member
since 2000-03-24
Posts 153 |
Core, this is polished like.....like the chrome on a brand new '68 Bonneville. Father's Day tends to get one thinking, doesn't it? Rick |
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Parker Member Elite
since 2000-01-06
Posts 3129ON |
I must admit that you have that keen ability to just take us their, and evoke our own memories of simular situations. Very very good. Parker |
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notlikely2 Member
since 2000-06-16
Posts 308UK |
I was with you in that car..... how sweet and yet how sad... |
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Parker Member Elite
since 2000-01-06
Posts 3129ON |
Back for another ride....  |
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ethome Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858New Brunswick Canada |
How impressionable the tender age, the memories of which lead us to expressions of the heart such as this poem. Very enjoyable! |
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Meadowmuse Member Elite
since 1999-12-27
Posts 3263 |
"forgot about our divorce, or where to place that blame, feeling only joy." A wonderfully shared vignette, Corinne. ~ Claire |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Corrine you have expressed this part of your life so well...your excitement and feelings...the sadness of a divorce...I felt happy for you also as you went for your drive and felt joy and freedom. James |
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brian madden Member Elite
since 2000-05-06
Posts 4374ireland |
Corrine wow.... your poem was like a clear snapshot in time. Wondefully writing with such warm. excellent poem. ------------------------ "Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time". Baltimore Grotto "To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." E.E Cummings. "Art is a lie which makes us realise the truth." Pablo Picasso "We Irish are too poetical to be poets, we are a nation of brilliant failures" Oscar Wilde ----- |
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Corinne Member Ascendant
since 1999-10-28
Posts 5167state of confusion |
Thanks, Parker, Notlikely, Parker again, Ethome,Meadowmuse, James and Brian! I just love the positive force of this place! Corinne |
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