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EmmaRose
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since 2011-03-02

Posts 1376
Midwest

0 posted 2013-06-21 12:40 PM

He blew rings for me

wrote my name
on the sky

a marquise of mixed letters
from a cauldron of smoke
that rose from his mouth

his kiss of confetti
flavored with sea salt
and Benson & Hedges

it was south of the boardwalk
by the whirl of the carousel

at the ocean's reception

we were just turning 20.

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

1 posted 2013-06-21 12:44 PM

Great way to capture and keep a memory!

Lori

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2013-06-21 02:33 PM

Fantastic, Emma. Truly fantastic!

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

3 posted 2013-06-21 02:58 PM

Nostalgically magical, EmmaRose.

Owl

Gale
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since 2013-06-10

Posts 578
Russia

4 posted 2013-06-22 04:33 PM

So romantic memories! )

Alison

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since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

5 posted 2013-06-24 08:03 AM

Love memories like this one, ER.

A

EmmaRose
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since 2011-03-02

Posts 1376
Midwest

6 posted 2013-06-24 09:02 AM

thanks for sharing my youthful memories

Krawdad
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since 2001-01-03

Posts 2597

7 posted 2013-06-25 12:51 PM

Sometimes the insertion of something very specific and of a time fixes a poem in a way nothing else does.  This poem, I think, needed Benson & Hedges.

I had forgotten B&H.  I know I smoked it, 'cuz I smoke anything I could get my hands on in those days . . .

Thanks for the snapshot.

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

8 posted 2013-06-25 07:29 AM

Yes, thanks for the snapshot. You took me back to my own youth but only to realize that little things like that haven't stayed in my brain. Pity I guess.

EmmaRose
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since 2011-03-02

Posts 1376
Midwest

9 posted 2013-06-25 08:47 AM

thanks again for reading my memories

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

10 posted 2013-07-03 12:56 PM

enjoyed...James

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

11 posted 2013-07-03 01:38 PM

Oh so beautifully rendered memory, dear EmmaRose. Funny, I have never been "really" smoking, but I used to have that elegant box of Benson & Hedges on my desk ...

Margherita

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