The Life I Never Got to Have (impromptu)

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Huan Yi
Member Ascendant

since 2004-10-12

Posts 6688
Waukegan

0 posted 2008-05-25 03:11 PM

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A white house
With a long green
Back yard

My wife
Of many years
Making a
Holiday meal

My daughter
Bringing her children
To visit the old man

My son
On vacation
Saying Pop
I found a great place
Not far from here

Let’s go
Fishing

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TinaTrivett
Senior Member

since 2006-07-15

Posts 569

1 posted 2008-05-25 03:16 PM

*huge smile* here...excellent.

Earth Angel
Member Empyrean

since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

2 posted 2008-05-25 03:16 PM

Huan, this aches. It truly does. The loneliness is almost palpable. The life that you would have liked to have had, is ofttimes taken for granted by those who have been blessed as such.

Giving you a warm, compassionate hug,
~ and a nice, home-cooked holiday meal!

EA

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

3 posted 2008-05-25 03:34 PM

Awww Geez John,

An overdose of Ozzie and Harriet--it almost makes me want to throw-up, if you know what I mean.

Urban Bobby

Huan Yi
Member Ascendant

since 2004-10-12

Posts 6688
Waukegan

4 posted 2008-05-25 03:38 PM

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Yah Bob, I do . . .

But counterrevolutionary
as it might have been
I would have been
happy

Thanks all for reading

John

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Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

5 posted 2008-05-25 04:47 PM

You always draw me in to read. Linda is right - this one does ache.

A

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

6 posted 2008-05-26 03:45 AM

If all the world were to wish for this - or to know that they wish for this - to quote Louis Armstrong in song, "What a wonderful world it would be!" The simplest things are sometimes the most difficult to attain and the most longed for. The richest people are those who have them and know they have them, and those who don't, but wish they did. So that makes you one of the richest.

Beautiful poem.

- Owl

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

7 posted 2008-05-26 05:46 AM

lello Huan Yi, your poems sometimes look like a piece of cinema, always enjoy;

yann

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

8 posted 2008-05-26 06:30 AM

I agree with Owl. It is a wise person indeed who knows what is truly important in life. Three cheers for Ozzie and Harriette!
Ida

unboundpoetess
Member

since 2008-05-24

Posts 477

9 posted 2008-05-27 07:49 PM

When you open up to speak, words just drop off your pen.

~H

reddevil013
Junior Member

since 2008-04-26

Posts 12
ON, Canada

10 posted 2008-05-27 10:26 PM

I just love that title. Props for that one. The poem itself is not my type of poem, but still touched me.

R.D

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