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Sicilian Migration |
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ecrivan Member Elite
since 2001-12-10
Posts 3923my own state 
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Piercing summer day, where I bathed my feet stairways lead to a cool basin beneath Cephalu on its northern coast exposed in the sun...mild roast could not resist not placing a foot entered the past through a marble nook. Hot summer day that drove me along away from Palmermo's darkened archways away from an algae infested shore in search of more limpid waters into the chalky white atmosphere at the site of an old basin we had appeared A Sicilian friend who hosted me at twenty-nine served me handmade bread, its taste so fine attributed to longevity her father said and recollected the days when he met Canadians on service call..to liberate how he narrowly escaped more gruesome fate... Young and old meet in harmony, or collide like any youth..there's the touch of the past but the future needs to be lived free of bonds specially as the young travel to more 'attractive' urban finds an inexorable flux that gradually leaves a parent behind.... hot summer day where I bathe my feet lie worn limestone slabs on which the women beat a timeless wash... their children have now migrated and closed a window to the past how long do such memories last? [This message has been edited by ecrivan (05-22-2003 07:11 PM).] |
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ethome Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858New Brunswick Canada |
Everything's on the move one way or another......I think the memories last long after our final sleep..... Excellent material and well presented! |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
Vivid recreation of past memories which will undoubtedly remain with you until you take your last breath. It was as though I was viewing a by-gone era through a series of daguerreotype pictures in sepia tones... Wondrously expressive write. Warm mornin' hugs, Linda |
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Brad Majors 
since 2001-04-03
Posts 2647Georgia |
well done |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
damn...just wow...I have no other words |
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ecrivan Member Elite
since 2001-12-10
Posts 3923my own state |
Ethome, if only I knew now I could keep these memories then..from this life. Earth Angel, now that I am a product of migration..this was a dedication to that moment |
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ecrivan Member Elite
since 2001-12-10
Posts 3923my own state |
Brad, Thanks for sharing...there should be more of these 'cameo' type poems in the future..not all at once  Passing, it was wow being there...where time stood still |
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Aenimal Member Rara Avis
since 2002-11-18
Posts 7350the ass-end of space |
Those memories last forever ecrivan, though I don't reply as often as I'd like I do read and enjoy your words and you know of course that this one touches deeply.. |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
very deeply! |
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