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Red White and Blue
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Red White and Blue |
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inkedgoddess Member Rara Avis
since 2002-11-19
Posts 7392Ohio 
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the sun retracted, and the unblinded water shone true blue again, like a giant bucket of turquoise jello, shake, rattle and roll; making me dizzy as i breathe its life into my soul, and a sea of marble colored eyes now filled the darkening sky, and baseball fans in bleacher seats watched Willie Mays play his final days at Shea Fast forward now as we wait for the 4ths spectaclar nighttime show, and my ears fill with different tongues, in anticipation and the long distance boats out past a lifeguards domain divide with lights, the ocean from the sky, and silver birds fly by, fly by....... off till morning, with their secret handshake, they're off they lose me again tonight, on flight, and coney island is paradise to a girl who never knew an oceanliner from a inner tube, as long as life and fate blessed her geographically within reach of the piscean delight, and the UN assembles on the beach on a jersey shore today, in a kaleiodoscope, there are rainbowed bodies on parade, in living color and slices of past and future weld me to the here and now, and the flowered saris swinging off the hips of soft bellied indian oldladies, and salsa playing along borriquan blankets smelling like mangoes, and radios blast with KTU music, the beat of New York,New York shaking its butt, and me the pale gringo, looking out into nothing and everything, waiting for a sky story to write on black with white, and litttle girls becoming women under the boardwalk at age l6, and the ocean stunk with fish, and he asks me how i can stand it........ and i tell him that that's the smell of perfumed holywater that only a queens or brooklynboy would ever know and love, and someone call the bikini police, this ocean view is becoming frightful, and i remember the boy in the projects, the church bells cried when he died.... swimming by the bay of silvergulls, in unchartered waters, as he took my illusions of cottoncandyskies for a ride.... on the raft he sailed, silly-eyed adventurer who took his own boyhood dreams out to sea, and he had to die i can now surmise it must have been his untimely time..... and he became a black and beautiful diamond, his smile still calls to me some white on white nights in the forever sky, haunting me even now, like an unsolved news headline, deep within the childhood mind............ and i know i heard talk of a color line for the very first time, that summer then, and the assorted flavors of neightbors dotting the project benches like greengrass laden with multicolored flowers, and ooohhhhhhh the summernights, and beatle songs always the beatles played alongside any memories - both the savored and best forgotten ones...... and its all fused, a bit muddled and confused , this giant jumble of history, mystery and bliss, and i waited each night to walk the boardwalk when dad was still l0 feet tall, and the only man i would ever love, thru these 12 year old eyes, and on august nights he swam his job and fiancial woes away............... and bought me and the skinny wallflower little sis castleshaped custard cones, along with sweet dreams tossed between some of the ungraspable but sadder childhood memories, and somewhere between then and now, when i am faced heart to heart with the ocean pulse, when i look out into nothing and everything all at once, .....i dont have to wonder if i've ever been loved * thanks for hanging in there * [This message has been edited by inkedgoddess (07-07-2003 09:45 PM).] |
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BluesSerenade Member Patricius
since 2001-10-23
Posts 10549By the Seaside |
Good Lord, this is so you, so true, and more real and beautiful than anything you have ever written Michele~ You, dear lady, are getting better all the time!!! Geeeez Louise!!!! |
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inkedgoddess Member Rara Avis
since 2002-11-19
Posts 7392Ohio |
thanks lorigirl, is was a mouthful, i know bless you for getting thru it all  |
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Patricia Member Elite
since 2003-04-06
Posts 2160Missouri |
Wow...I hung and clung to your images. This is wonderful. This verse will not soon be forgotten, I assure you! Patricia |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
Sigh! I knew it was worth reading through ... dear Michele, your considerations on a firework day are remarkable. ... and the piece with your father, just made me cry! You know what you write about .... that's what makes it an outstanding touching write. Love and hugs. Margherita |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Michele, A lovely kaleiodoscope, worth reading. Enjoyed. |
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IntoTheFlames Member
since 2003-06-21
Posts 92Va, USA |
As always you have done a truely amazing job!!!!!!  ~*Summer*~ |
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garysgirl  
since 2002-09-29
Posts 19237Florida, USA |
Michele, don't worry about the length of this amazing write...it didn't seem long at all because you took your readers right there where it was all happening. Very good writing.  Hugs  Ethel |
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littlewing Member Rara Avis
since 2003-03-02
Posts 9655New York |
Michele: you should publish this as a short story - seriously . . . this is amazing . . . you took me through your memories here . . .and yes . . . you were and are loved very much so . . . This is amazing xxoo to a girl who never knew an oceanliner from a inner tube, me too . . . |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
Wonderful write..so very much enjoyed! A keeper for my library! ~Smiles & Hugs, Nancy~ ~If you haven't heard the sunset, |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Michele Fabulous walk through a hall of memories, so colorful, real, and very touching. Very much enjoyed! |
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QjQ Member Elite
since 2003-04-18
Posts 3756U.S.A. |
nice write,,, enjoyed reading... A voice of honesty |
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bklynboy Senior Member
since 2002-12-15
Posts 660florida |
Terrific insight. It brought me back to where I grew up. I think we shared a castle shaped cone on one summers day and didnt even know it. Your descriptions really have memories flooding back. Way to go Michele. |
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inkedgoddess Member Rara Avis
since 2002-11-19
Posts 7392Ohio |
thanks for walking down the memory lane with me into now..... i know its real long. Patricia, thank you for the kind words of support hey thanks sue, i dont even know even how to go about that.........but i am glad you liked that much lori, those are very sweet and appreciated words, truly makes me feel appreciated here marguerite......glad i could touch you with my words sy, a pleasure to see you here.... flames..thanks for stopping in ethel...thank you kindly for reading and the nice words you've expressed....and i am enjoying the different forms you are extending y ourself into also thank you, too, nancy for an enchanted response q.....to you, too, thanks for reading the length of this all martie....thanks for stopping by too, and reading and for dropping a nice thought bboy........yes, my dear friend, i think we did share something, somehow, sometime, somewhere back then [This message has been edited by inkedgoddess (07-08-2003 06:19 AM).] |
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