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Open Poetry #44

nobody's babies

tfaye
Junior Member

since 2008-12-18

Posts 33

0 posted 2009-01-27 08:41 AM

Towheaded white trash
Conceived at the fair
Nobody’s baby
Born of a tipsy affair

A bright eyed junior
A seaman on leave,
Spring fever unleashed
Both young and naïve

Bootlegged liquor
A Ferris wheel kiss
A grope in the fun house
An hour of bliss

She went back to school
He returned to the sea
Forty one weeks later
One plus one equaled three

Coerced into marriage
The way of the south
A shoddy beginning
They lived hand to mouth

Four more babies
Eleven hard years
Add another twenty
How time disappears

Two angry people
Five children later
All nobody’s babies
The distance grew greater

Splintered, worn and broken
It couldn’t be mended
A lifetime in limbo
Was finally ended

Each child duly married
Only one is still wed
There are nine well loved babies
To pick up the thread

What started at a carnival,
Ended in up quite sadly
So raise your babies tenderly
Wisely, gently, gladly

t

Marc-Andre
Senior Member

since 2008-12-07

Posts 501

1 posted 2009-01-27 09:29 AM

Unfortunately, this seems to happen a lot...You pass the message well. Mark

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2 posted 2009-01-27 10:50 AM

Yo Tfaye,

This is fairly good. You have made good use of end rhymes. I like it.

Bobby

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

3 posted 2009-01-27 12:16 PM

Kudos to those who learn from the mistakes of others...and pass it on.
Ida

steavenr
Member Elite

since 2003-11-17

Posts 4058

4 posted 2009-01-29 12:58 PM

beauty, wisdom, life, lessons...these are but a few reasons to like this...good writing...thank you for sharing this slice of life lived--this slice of life learned

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