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My Heart Still Yearns
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My Heart Still Yearns |
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Victoria
since 2000-08-12
Posts 5869
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I often wonder how my life would have been different if my mother had not brought me over from England to be with my father who was in The United States Army. Everytime I see Big Ben on the television and when I watched the Queens Diamond Jubilee this year my heart still yearns for England. I would be speaking with an English accent like my mother if I grew up there. I think of my grandmother who only held me in her arms for the first seven months of my life never to see me again, and my Great Grandfather who was blind but still said I was a beautiful baby as he held me in his large hands. My mother gave up her country and her family for my father. What she never knew was her mother grew up in a workhouse along the River Thames after my grandmothers mother died when she was only eight. I dont think my mother could have left her and took me with her if she had known back then but her mother never said a word. As I watched the Jubilee and the boats carrying the Queen down the Thames my eyes watched the buildings along the river wondering if I was looking at the workhouse where my grandmother once lived. What an unselfish woman she must have been and if it wasnt for ancestry.com her secret would have stayed a secret. But thank God she had a son and another daughter and a wonderful husband who loved her just because. They say if you set someone free they arent yours unless they come back to you. Im afraid she died before my mother returned but mom did visit her grave in the churchyard of the church I was baptised, St. Lawrence and St. Mary. My mother did return to her roots and the secrets of yesterday along the River Thames. A poem is never finished, only abandoned. - Paul Valery (1871-1945) |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
I have been trying to think of how to comment on this piece, Victoria. I guess America isn't in your heart and England is. I'm sorry you had to leave your birthplace. ~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~ |
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Victoria
since 2000-08-12
Posts 5869 |
I suppose since that is the place I was conceived I have those warm feelings for England and my grandparents who I never met. I dont miss America because im already here ha. and of course my children and family and mother have always been here. |
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secondhanddreampoet Member Ascendant
since 2006-11-07
Posts 6394a 'Universalist' ! |
Excellent 'slice of real life' write. I can't do this particular kind of 'penning;' however, I most certainly admire those who can! |
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jwesley Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563Spring, Texas |
Wonderful write, my friend...always like to read passages such as this. j. |
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Victoria
since 2000-08-12
Posts 5869 |
Thank you Dreampoet. Its easy when you remember the bits of information given to you by parents over the years. I think you are just being modest. Jimmy..Thank you im glad you enjoyed the secrets of my grandmother maybe I should have made that my title. A poem is never finished, only abandoned. |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Fine writing...enjoyed reading this...James |
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Victoria
since 2000-08-12
Posts 5869 |
Thank you for peeking in James. |
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