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Beatrice Boyle
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since 2006-12-06

Posts 438

0 posted 2007-01-15 01:53 AM

The sound of silence is deafening
Bouncing off the walls
No stampeding of little feet
Echoing down the halls
No more sticky fingers
Or jelly handprints on the fridge
No more playing monopoly
Or helping them build a bridge
Now...they're on their own
And sadly...so am I
To face the dreadful silence
Since they have said goodbye

Lord, so many times I prayed
For the cacophony to end
To turn down the volume
And have some quiet time to spend
Now, I must begin again
To live my life anew
And wait until the babies come
(I envision quite a few!)
Then once again their laughter
Will echo through the halls
Happiness will reign supreme
Once again within these walls

trutodaraiders
Senior Member

since 2006-12-02

Posts 820
CA

1 posted 2007-01-15 02:45 AM

I loved this poem..You did a excellent job in time i will know the feeling i have a 9 month old daughter and i dred the day she will fly away

Interloper

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-06

Posts 8369
Deep in the heart

2 posted 2007-01-15 12:47 PM

We gotta be careful of that for which we pray

Poet, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart and write.

ivordavies
Senior Member

since 2007-01-10

Posts 739
Chester, England

3 posted 2007-01-15 12:53 PM

Bea,

Lord, so many times I prayed
For the cacophony to end
To turn down the volume
And have some quiet time to spend

I think I'm still at this stage and my grandkids have overlapped the ones still at home, they also spend a couple of days a week with us.

Music is banging from upstairs at the moment from my 17 + 21 year olds

and your complaining about peace and quiet.... our kids are on the next boat over to you.

Have Fun,

Ivor

The moment created this second, is a moment that's going to last.
It lives the full spectrum of time, the future, the present and past.

The Lady
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-12-26

Posts 7634
The Southwest

4 posted 2007-01-15 03:40 PM

ah Bea
this poem can live in a mother's heart

Beatrice Boyle
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since 2006-12-06

Posts 438

5 posted 2007-01-15 04:10 PM

Hi raiders...enjoy them while you can, they grow up so fast!

Bea

Beatrice Boyle
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since 2006-12-06

Posts 438

6 posted 2007-01-15 04:14 PM

So true Interloper...if only we could see around the corner of life before complaining about our lot in life. There is an old irish saying: if all the troubles of the world were laid out in front of us...we would surely pick our own!

Bea

Beatrice Boyle
Member

since 2006-12-06

Posts 438

7 posted 2007-01-15 04:17 PM

Actually Ivor...it's you and Joan that should run away and hide!!

Bea

Beatrice Boyle
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since 2006-12-06

Posts 438

8 posted 2007-01-15 04:21 PM

Thanks Lady...we never appreciate what we have until it's gone. (conversely, that also applies to the kids that have left home. (no mom to do laundry, cook meals, pick up after them etc..etc..etc..!)

Bea

Roniece Dawson-Bruce
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since 2000-01-29

Posts 5689
Sydney, Australia

9 posted 2007-01-17 05:42 AM

Grandma Bea... I hear you !!

RDB

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

10 posted 2007-01-17 07:33 AM

houses seem to get ten times bigger when they leave, yes

Beatrice Boyle
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since 2006-12-06

Posts 438

11 posted 2007-01-17 08:16 AM

Thanks for stopping by Roniece.

Bea

Beatrice Boyle
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since 2006-12-06

Posts 438

12 posted 2007-01-17 08:19 AM

Thanks Shadows...but you know what...strangely enough, we get used to it and when they come home for awhile and eat us out of house and home, and the telephone starts it's incessant ringing....that silence starts to look pretty good again, doesn't it!

Bea

ladylisa
Member

since 2007-04-29

Posts 342
Florida USA

13 posted 2007-05-28 11:35 AM

Understood this in the bottom of my heart, great words of wisdom in your replies. They are grown and gone before you know what has happened. Really enjoyed the depth of this piece.

Smiling
Junior Member

since 2007-05-27

Posts 12
Barbados

14 posted 2007-05-28 02:52 PM

I'm touched it's hard for someone at my age , which is 17 to really relate to this poem yet it touches me deeply i think this part of your development is truely what life is all about , brilliant piece

Smiling

gmcooper
Junior Member

since 2007-05-30

Posts 47

15 posted 2007-05-31 01:34 PM

Agreed to all of what you write but after a time, it is heaven on earth

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