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Open Poetry #45

Tales and Tells

martiniat8
Senior Member

since 2003-06-21

Posts 897
Prague, Bohemia, Czech Republic

0 posted 2009-08-19 05:42 AM

It's funny how stories begin around a poker table
a man voices that he is going through a divorce
and I ask him if they tried counseling
and they're friends still... with kids

and the counseling ended
when he couldn't pay
for the 2nd
instillation

and the man next to me asks
if I'm a counselor
and I bring up
I've been a minister

a counselor

from time to time
with a theology and psych degree

delving deeper he inquires
what church
where and when

I look down and say
it's been a long time...
since then

the game goes on and I'm doing well
people trying to figure out
my lucky charm
and what's my tell

the little black box
just a pipe
the case
a pouch

and everyone asks
what's in it, what's in it
my reply is
my father's ash

and everyone laughs

and the fellow jolly
says, his father
was a mouse
and this must be his house

for they do not know
the inside joke
my father was a player
of renoun and note

and further still
the memory clear
from some odd
30 years

when we would awake
or hear something break
and something was missing from the kitchen
we would ask him

was it you

the answer reply
so swift, and so sly

"it must've been that mouse"
that scurries around the house

"ask me no questions...
and I'll tell you no lies"

inkedgoddess
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-11-19

Posts 7392
Ohio

1 posted 2009-08-19 06:56 AM

interesting write

brneyedgrly
Senior Member

since 2009-06-08

Posts 1125
nowhere and everywhere

2 posted 2009-08-19 09:17 PM

martini

your writes are

always interesting lol

love it

shel

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

3 posted 2009-08-22 05:52 AM

I enjoyed the tale and tell.

A

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

4 posted 2009-08-22 12:31 PM

thanks martiniat for the very enjoyable read, i like the all story and the clever ending.

regards

yann

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