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jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

0 posted 2020-03-25 08:54 PM

Seventeen, Again

Rummaging -
cleaning off closet shelves,
obviously finding things not seen
in years - I found a picture,
one locked in an old, silver bracelet,
you know,
those with a chain-link band,
and a thin, rectangular box,
with a flip-up top,
that you put a picture in -
they were pictures back then,
not photographs.
Rummaging, I opened it:
and was instantly seventeen, again.
Seventeen, in June, Sixty-plus years ago,
standing just outside the door
of a Greyhound Scenicruiser bound for San Diego,
the Navy Recruit Training Center,
a whole new chapter of life:
Seventeen, when you put it on my wrist
saying you'd always be there.
Rummaging, old as I am now.
Remembering -
I never saw you again.

Namyh
Senior Member

since 2009-01-20

Posts 988

1 posted 2020-03-28 01:39 PM

Jwesley - Fleeting are those moments and people which get lost irretrievably in time. Maybe a lot of that is what makes us scribblers of the written word, so others can remember their lost times too. Poets! You gotta love 'em! I much enjoyed this and thanks for the memories JW. You did good. Namyh

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

2 posted 2020-03-29 08:41 AM

Jimmy,
Love this and the glint of steel at the end!
~L

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

3 posted 2020-03-29 03:31 PM

Wow! this one makes you think and that's a good thing, Poet.

Temptress

Moderator

Member Rara Avis

since 1999-06-15

Posts 7136
Mobile, AL

4 posted 2020-07-01 12:23 PM

I love the way you share these moments with us. Found things on dusty cluttered shelves can definitely help us travel. I've lost myself in doing this.

"How much is real? So much to question
An epidemic of the mannequins
Contaminating everything"

Stone Sour

Paul Wilson

Member Elite

since 2002-07-07

Posts 4711
United States

5 posted 2020-07-01 01:54 PM

James...Sweet touching write. Enjoyed very much. Instantly brought me back to 1964 when I was seventeen. Lots of first experienced by me that year...Paul

~~To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you~~
Paul

augustsky
Senior Member
Posts 828
midwest US

6 posted 2020-07-02 10:38 PM

J.,I so Love your slices of life,
you take the reader by the hand..
& then the sigh..

Loved it Poet,

Sky~

Sometimes..Miracles are just good people
with kind hearts~

Sven

Member Laureate

since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

7 posted 2020-07-02 11:43 PM

I know those memories. . .

Well done here, my friend.

-- That which gives light must endure burning.
Viktor Frankl

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

8 posted 2020-07-08 08:01 PM

awesome and moving, nice inspiration
yann

Marshalzu

Member Elite

since 2001-02-15

Posts 2681
Lurking

9 posted 2020-07-09 05:27 AM

Memories and keep sakes are treasures beyond comparison with the power to transport you back half a lifetime ago. Wonderfully written.

Michael

Moderator

Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

10 posted 2020-07-10 01:11 AM

Damn...that last line hurt. I think maybe we temper expectation and train ourselves to, maybe unconsciously, plan for possible disappointment in later relationships in life. the first ones though...there's no holding back. you believe with all of your heart, mind and soul...probably the reason crushes are called crushes. Felt this one James, wonderfully written.

Michael

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