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Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

0 posted 2008-02-09 02:46 PM

I won't soon forget that little house
built of stones
that my brother and I
still refer to as "The rock house"
or that cold, miserable winter
that iced our minds and chilled our bones
to the point where
neither of us has ever forgotten
the winter in that house.
So much time has flown
but the years could not compete with stone.
and though it's old and run down,
the rock house is still around.
Not long ago
my brother took a picture of that house,
an image without the snow,
and just looking at it
still made me shiver with cold.
I could feel icy fingers
reaching out to touch my shoulder,
when morning came too soon,
and my mother's voice calling me
to get up and go to school.

Ida Werrett

Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

1 posted 2008-02-09 02:57 PM

I am sure that little house did its best to keep you warm. There must have been another chill it could not control. How nice it is still there. Joyce

Bobby Jordan
Member

since 2007-08-13

Posts 491
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2 posted 2008-02-09 03:17 PM

Ida,

Nice work.

Try to forget it.

Bobby

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

3 posted 2008-02-09 06:27 PM

very real and effective 'slice of life' write!

applause!

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

4 posted 2008-02-10 01:36 AM

My family once lived in a house when I was pretty little. It was so cold that my brother and I wanted to make my Mom coffee one morning. We couldn't use the stove - so we stacked wood for a little campfire in the middle of the floor. She walked in just as we were going to light it. The hairbrush on my butt is a memory I won't soon forget! It was one cold little house though.

A

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

5 posted 2008-02-10 10:13 AM

A very powerful memory, dear Ida!
The cold was felt! I do hope you have also some warm memories of that little house.

love
Margherita

simon
Member

since 2008-01-14

Posts 440
London, England

6 posted 2008-02-10 10:40 AM

Marchmadness,

You tell us so much about yourself in this vivid memory. Thank you...

Artic Wind
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 8080
Realm of Supernatural

7 posted 2008-02-10 11:57 AM

Very powerful Words!

ARCTIC WIND

effjayel
Senior Member

since 2007-09-30

Posts 1474
At the Crossroads of Infinity

8 posted 2008-02-10 01:09 PM

Leave it in the past Ida, it has no place in your future....

Earth Angel
Member Empyrean

since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

9 posted 2008-02-10 02:22 PM

Dear Ida, may your bones never, ever feel that cold again. I do believe that you are now of sturdy stock for what you have endured in the past.

Giving you an extra WARM hug!

Linda

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

10 posted 2008-02-10 03:41 PM

Perhaps not the home but the location of the home...hope you are living in a warmer location now...James

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

11 posted 2008-02-10 11:40 PM

The rock house was in Idaho during the coldest winter I can ever remember. I was eleven years old. Maybe that's why I live in So. Cal. now.

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