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JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana

0 posted 2015-09-18 11:48 AM


A little different kind of poem for me these days,
there was a time all my poems rhymed. This one hearkens
back to those days when I privately wished I’d never been born.



It was a hot, but pleasant day,
The front porch was cool in the shade,
Inside the house I heard her weep,
And so help me God, I was afraid.

'Neath a strawberry preserve sky,
Me and my woman shared our pain.
All alone, with no one around,
We walked, side by side, down the lane.

It was in the morn's early hour,
The sun just peeking o'er the trees,
We spoke not a word as we trod,
The two of us and one made three.

A rusty gate opened for us,
We walked past it toward the grave,
I dug with my hands yesterday,
Sun was hot, woman called brave.

A wooden casket that I'd made,
Sat by the grave for sweet boy Blue.
He's gone from us, he went away,
Died two days ago with the flu.

~*~ When they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~

© Copyright 2015 Jerry Pat Bolton - All Rights Reserved
Ticklefingers
Senior Member
Posts 710
Louisiana
1 posted 2015-09-18 03:34 PM


Cool reflections in black and white.

Easy on the read friend with a pleasant afterglow. The most difficult of times make the most inspiring muse, don't you 'gree?

88's to you.

She told me [i]"play one for your supper and you'll get breakfast"[i/].

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
2 posted 2015-09-18 03:46 PM


Thank you Ticklefingers, I see you are from Louisiana also, I'm in Thibodaux. Thank you for your comments and big time for the 88's! Welcome to PiP, kinda slow around here these days.

~*~ When they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA
3 posted 2015-09-19 08:37 PM


fine writing about a hard situation...james
JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
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4 posted 2015-09-19 08:51 PM


Thanks, James.

~*~ When they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~

2islander2
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since 2008-03-12
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by the sea
5 posted 2015-09-20 03:22 AM


very touching ending, a fine penning indeed


have  a nice day


yann

JerryPat2
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6 posted 2015-09-20 06:53 AM


Thank you very much,yann.

~*~ When they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~

Lori Grosser Rhoden
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since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere
7 posted 2015-09-21 08:04 PM


This is as tender as strawberry preserves are sweet. Better to be born into love for a little while than to feel you lived a lifetime never knowing it.
If it were my choice, I'd rather not be born, by whatever means, than be born where I am not wanted. But that's just me.


I feel like you have fermented your past and aged it to perfection in this piece and now you have a rare burgundy. ~L

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
8 posted 2015-09-21 08:06 PM


Ahhh . . . good old cheap California burgundy . . . Thank you my dear Lori.

~*~ When they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~

Paula Finn
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since 2000-06-17
Posts 5546
missouri
9 posted 2015-09-21 08:11 PM


To lose a child is the worse pain I think...you expect to lose your parents at some point but never a child...backwards...sigh.
JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
10 posted 2015-09-21 08:28 PM


Thank you Paula.

~*~ When they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~

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