Stable Respite ( Meg's Challenge)

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Open Poetry #28

Stable Respite ( Meg's Challenge)

Cpat Hair

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since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

0 posted 2003-08-20 02:25 PM

“How much for the chair?”

14 with twenty dollars
from sweating out lofts
stacking on trucks
and eating pork and beans
from the can.

“$12.00”
Came the puzzled reply
Over glasses that slid
Down a sweat covered nose

Paid
The chair went on back
And trekked the two miles
Home in a bouncing bruise
Of walk a ways
Stop a few
Walk some more
And finally through

Oak an ugly red
Grew lighter with each coat peeled
Each year and use discarded
Until it showed grain
And I
The new owner
Added my own stain

3 decades later
it is a consistent
anchored through two failed
many moves
and years of
“who?”

Perhaps its time
To once again
Renew
the chair
and my view

Martie

Moderator

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

1 posted 2003-08-20 02:31 PM

Ron

Ahh, that's my kind of chair, and Cpat Hair!

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

2 posted 2003-08-20 02:45 PM

Bravo!!!!

Susan Caldwell
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since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

3 posted 2003-08-20 03:03 PM

Hey, I am surprised that you don't have just half a chair...

Great writing!

Susan

Kaoru

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since 2003-06-07

Posts 3892
where the wild flowers grow

4 posted 2003-08-20 03:17 PM

BRAVO indeed!!

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

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Listening to every heart

5 posted 2003-08-21 05:01 PM

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

6 posted 2003-08-21 05:09 PM

I Love This!!

~The breeze that kissed you on the face,
Has held me in the same embrace~

nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

7 posted 2003-08-21 05:28 PM

nice work..C

M

Dark Angel
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since 1999-08-04

Posts 10095

8 posted 2003-08-21 05:40 PM

Fabulous! A challenge well met.

Maree

fate is not just
whose cooking smells good
but which way the wind blows

(Ani DiFranco)

Corinne
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since 1999-10-28

Posts 5167
state of confusion

9 posted 2003-08-21 06:50 PM

What comfort this old chair must give, an old friend for sure!

Core

littlewing
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since 2003-03-02

Posts 9655
New York

10 posted 2003-08-21 06:53 PM

Ron, smiling here . . .
yes, I thought of my rocking chair
when I read this, then realized, in a manner, you are speaking of yourself

Just absolutely amazing
way more than well met
xxoo

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