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Fragmented Memories
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Fragmented Memories |
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jwesley Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563Spring, Texas 
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I don’t have a craving to return to my youth, but I would like to go back and smell the rich, black, gumbo dirt as I smelled it growing up. I’d like to hear the robins in winter when I was knee-deep in swamp water, oblivious of the cold, have a Killdeer walk up to within inches of my face as I lay in a depression in the ground. I’d like to feel my heart as I did the first time I fell in love, my pulse race with the first kiss I ever had, feel my grandmother hug me again, my brother call me me-me one more time, and all the other things that are fragmented memories now, things the years have taken away, things I forgot to hold dear, that I didn’t know I’d need, again. I don’t have a craving to return to my youth . . . I just want to smell those things, hear, feel and touch in depth again, the life . . . that I’ve lived. © wesley james beard, jr. |
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Bluesy Socrateaser Member Elite
since 2002-11-07
Posts 2417In The Mirror |
Where I came up it was dead end streets and rock-strewn alleys. This was before the advent of plastic trash bags. The "men of iron" would heave canfuls of loose trash (organic & inorganic) into the back of their truck and a million flies would follow. A scent to remember? Oh yes, and then there was Mrs. Stride, "the painted widow" whose old perfumes wafted clear across 'Bailey's lot' where all the 'missing neighbors were buried. A cadaver dog's delight! Some "memories" that haven't yet "fragmented" and I doubt they (and myriad others) ever will. Enjoyed the read Jimmy. It did its job well. BTS ...just bein' Bluesy |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
We all want to relive or embrace precious memories...james |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
Jimmy I love the way you can bring the texture of things to life with your words. You not so gently nudge our memories to the forefront where, good bad or indifferent, we can't help but relive them again. Bless your heart! ~L |
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jwesley Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563Spring, Texas |
Thank you BluesyS, James and Lori, for your words. I was in sort of a "funk" when I wrote that piece. Not depressive, I'm never that, but after hearing that an old friend I was looking to contact, had died . . . and I didn't even know it . . ., it was more a melancholic state where I really wanted to touch my past and see, again, in retrospect, the things that brought me to where I am today. Much of that past comes back when searched, but also, much of it is fuzzy enough that one has to question one's self as to its accuracy. Appreciate your comments, my friends. . . j. |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
I have my memories, as do we all, good or bad, we have our memories. I enjoyed this, Jimmy. Sorry about your friend. ~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~ |
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Poet In Pink Senior Member Posts 1066 MI |
Such a wonderful poem Jimmy  I agree with you, it would be nice to go back and experience certain things again ~ Thank you for sharing this & Sorry to hear about your friend. Alana |
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2islander2 Member Ascendant
since 2008-03-12
Posts 6825by the sea |
wonderful jwesley, we all seek for memories , specially from youth, i always tell it was better before, simply for a good reason, we were young yann |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
I can so relate to this, Jimmy. Very well done. |
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latearrival Member Ascendant
since 2003-03-21
Posts 5499Florida |
thanks,Jwesley, I knew if I came here you would have something for me to remember. At my age, I seem to keep remembering all my women friends who have already passed on. Age is nothing to me but I miss those wonderful women from whom l learned so much. \ best to you, jo /latearrival |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
there are so many things and people who actually made a great impression with positive influence on our youth....totally get this...thank you for writing. |
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s1nfully_1nn0c3nt Senior Member
since 2003-10-26
Posts 1105Watertown, NY |
This is beautiful ❤️ Ahhh...I’m kind of homesick now, but that’s what good writing does- it makes you feel. Enjoyed. -Trina |
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