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Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

0 posted 2011-05-25 10:42 PM

Neighborhood, Rocked

My mind has been minding loss and now
Baring feelings of resentful need, had to
Look yet again, since the garage light was on
When they weren’t home…

And I mind that my friends/neighbors/
almost family
Are missing their space where they belong.

No, not by shadows of terror
Or storm, nor by illicit means
But by the fortune of age
And by the medium of need.

I miss them, my friends,
The ones I didn’t mind seeing me
In a moo-moo of mardi gras color;
When I pushed out the green holder of
Weekly waste, or the fact that they
Treated me like a daughter.

In fact, their daughter is what I
Would consider a good friend of mine…

And Mind. Only she’s better in mind
Than I, and I don’t mind that at all.

But I miss the daughter’s keepsakes – my keepsakes…

I watch their backyard because my own
Looks over it in special, and
I see the daisies taking over, when every
Other year here…they were never that
Bountiful.

Only today I realized it was because he cut them
For his true love’s breakfast table.

And now? The neighborhood is trying to
Keep up by feeding their needy flock.

Still…even though they sup at my feeder
The birds know their loss, as well.

© krj 5-25-11

[This message has been edited by Sunshine (05-26-2011 08:49 AM).]

Marchmadness
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since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

1 posted 2011-05-25 10:53 PM

Lovely. touching write, Sunshine.
Ida

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2011-05-25 11:03 PM

Such a laid-back and sorrowful write, although you took pains to not make it too sad. Your friends are gone. Hospital. Nursing home. they are gone. You miss them. The birds miss them. I;m beginning ti miss them, but I still have Maude to look after, and she wasn't visible tonight, but tomorrow is another day.

~ I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time" / I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance ~

Sunshine

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3 posted 2011-05-27 08:27 AM

Ida, thank you.

Jerry - they were the cornerstone of the neighborhood, having been the first family to move onto this block when it was first developed back in the 60's. And it's hard to meet nicer, more genuine people than they. Luckily I know where they've moved and they'll get visits from us for sure. Thank you for missing them with me.

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

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4 posted 2011-05-27 05:41 PM

Sissie...It's the people that make a home, a neighbor, a neighborhood. Only one person can cause a change to a whole city...and on it goes. Lovely how you wrote this.

Lori Grosser Rhoden
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since 2009-10-10

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Fair to middlin' of nowhere

5 posted 2011-05-27 05:59 PM

How wonderful Karilea to remember my parents in this way. I took Mom some Daiseys but it is time to take her some more. Thanks for all your kind and generous words dearest poet friend.
Lori

jwesley
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since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

6 posted 2011-05-27 06:04 PM

Our neighborhood has changed so much I hardly know anyone on the street anymore...the street's definitely gotten 'younger'. I and my next door neighbor are now the 'oldsters' here now . . . seems strange.

cool write, my friend...

j.

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