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lucky
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since 2000-01-17
Posts 1601
Idaho

0 posted 2000-12-04 11:08 PM


shiftin' through

the pieces of an album someone
left to me scattered frames with a name of
Wayne and I'll be lucky to know he’s someone
but I don’t recall his frame back then dad got
mad on a Seasons cold and winters eve
threw me out the house without a
coat and said to me I’d never
come back again with
mama’s tears a cryin’
and I not knowin’ what
to do I spent the night in a
neighbors barn tucked and curled

tight behind some haze sure they’d never
find me and the mornings after cool left me
hungry and empty cold I thought of mom
and Sis and bros the presents and
the food missed all but again

I turned and walked
recalled what
daddy said
was there
else that I could
do but given now these
times of pages I felt were laid to

rest I wonder how they ever could complain
of times which a caring soul revived my father’s
failin' now there just some images pacifing the
shattering with knowin' of the loss & precious
times and of course my mother’s call in
tears that thundered of her loss.

I was fifteen
.




[This message has been edited by lucky (edited 12-04-2000).]

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Martie
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Posts 28049
California
1 posted 2000-12-04 11:23 PM


Lucky--Sometimes when you are 15 and cold, you grow a memory that lasts until you are old, and can still hear your mother's tears calling.. Hugs!
Rosemary J. Gwaltney
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since 1999-08-26
Posts 997
northern mountains, Idaho
2 posted 2000-12-04 11:36 PM


~
Here I am with subdued sobs knowing ... how very much you have been through - and amidst my dripping salted rain, I blink to type how I love you, and how sorry I remain ... and your mother's tears pull forth my own in my remembering.
~
~



The spiritual wind that holds survivors aloft, plants the seeds from which bloom new hope ... R.J.G.



Paula Finn
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since 2000-06-17
Posts 5546
missouri
3 posted 2000-12-04 11:53 PM


This is such a sad sad memory...hugs to you friend
lucky
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since 2000-01-17
Posts 1601
Idaho
4 posted 2000-12-05 12:04 PM


Martie,
This is the second time someone has sent me a present of disgrace. The first was when my mother died and I was asked not to attend. That was no doubt my sister... Now knowing of her doings... well who can say. She sure wants daddy's house on the Island... I don't care for such strange gifts... I'll send you letter, give ya a little more history. I love ya Sis. But I sure wonder about her. Nice nice reply. Makes me think.

much love dale

Darling RJ.
You know how times have beset us... Don't cha worry none though, you know God has everything set and in His control. Someone wants to hurt... And it does to see again. But I'm OK as I hope are you... Remember, we arn't sure who it is...

All my Love, dale



[This message has been edited by lucky (edited 12-05-2000).]

dgvarner
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since 2000-05-13
Posts 3552
High Springs, Florida
5 posted 2000-12-05 12:06 PM


such sad memories..it makes me sometimes wish that the mediocre things would set as stone in the mind rather than the really sad ones...but..in the way the really sad or traumatic ones stick around, so do the really good ones    heres hoping you find your good memories too  

hugs to you lucky, g


"so lift your heart with mine...the depth to which it grieves is the height to which it can celebrate!" -Lisa Hussey

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6 posted 2000-12-05 12:08 PM


Lucky~
When I think of the caring man you are -
of all the hearts you've held, touched and mended -
I can't help but believe that your memory of this moment
of being fifteen, cold and hurt -
has made you a more compassionate man.
Whatcha think ?  
*Hugs*
~*Marge*~



~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
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Wilfred Yeats
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since 2000-08-04
Posts 2704
Wilmington, Delaware
7 posted 2000-12-05 08:27 AM


My teens too were tumultuous - nothing like yours - but your poem brought it all back.
I especially loved:
"I wonder how they ever could complain
of times which a caring soul revived my father’s
failin' now there just some images pacifing the
shattering with knowin' of the loss & precious
times and of course my mother’s call in
tears that thundered of her loss.

I was fifteen"
struck me hard- I was 15 when we learned my mother would not live another 2 years (she died when I was 17) and my father's grief -such grief I'd NEVER seen - you've created a great piece here Dale!


lucky
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since 2000-01-17
Posts 1601
Idaho
8 posted 2000-12-06 11:11 PM


Paula,
I didn't forget you sometimes ya all type to fast for me.

dgvarner,
thanks for the hugs, back to you too...

Marge Tindal
your such a caring soul... could I say more than that..? compassionate lady more than you could know.

Bill,
I'm not sure about your tumultuous teens_you look like a lady killer to me... LOL  I pray you got yourself the best... I lost my mom in 97 and I still pick up the phone to call. Dad's grief is still a bit beyoud me, but also such I've never known. A special thanks to you, Martie and Marge... and not to mention RJ. but I have her here in my arms... Thank God for such a mercy.

Love always Dale
.


[This message has been edited by lucky (edited 12-06-2000).]

vlraynes
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since 2000-07-25
Posts 8229
Somewhere... out there...
9 posted 2000-12-06 11:20 PM



lucky-
   i lack the words to describe how
   this has touched me...
   i wish you happiness..
  
   hugs,
   ~vicky




"...until you have read the verse on his
heart, you have not truely met the poet."
-vlraynes



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