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Open Poetry #47

Special Events

graying1
Member

since 2011-02-09

Posts 53
The Commonwealth of VA

0 posted 2011-02-16 06:09 AM

There must be a ratio
Of the type of events you go,
Some with celebratory headings
Like birthdays and weddings
Then there are the funerals to attend
Where we go and pretend
We remember cousins rarely seen.
More age sees more dying
And birthdays don’t really happen
Just add a year to what’s been
And keep going, maybe lying
Maybe not, maybe I just forgot.

Once I got a letter
Or a call was better
Now I need to check face book
If I want to get a baby look
Of some grandchild of someone I know
That years before
I attended a wedding of barely related
Now there someone more
That is less than that barely related,
Somehow, maybe I just forgot.

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

1 posted 2011-02-16 08:30 AM

interesting thought. The internet isolates us in some ways and in others it brings us closer to those we hardly know or only would see at a big family reunion. I liked your thinking here Peter
Lori

faithmairee
Senior Member

since 2011-01-05

Posts 1441
Poe Haven, USA

2 posted 2011-02-16 03:38 PM

nice one...enjoyed it much

There must be a poem in here somewhere.

nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

3 posted 2011-02-16 04:48 PM

I still haven't figured out facebook enough to want to spend time on it...I'd rather hear a voice and an email isn't even as bad as all the unnecessary nonsense that is posted on facebook...
my opinion only

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