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Tim
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since 1999-06-08

Posts 1794

0 posted 1999-06-27 11:25 AM

When I look back in retrospect
Was just child's folly I suspect
But is to me a sad lament
The summer of my discontent.

On fifth of June, I turned fourteen
And of the world, I had not seen
My simple plan, to have some fun
Now that my summer had begun.

In summers past, I'd always went
To Grandma Janes, where I'd been sent.
To little house upon the hill
With potted plants on window sill.

Why must I go? I'm much too old.
But yet I went, for I'd been told.
To little house upon the hill
With potted plants on window sill.

My days were spent locked in my room
Self pity reigned amidst the gloom
Was left alone by Grandma Jane
Til summer's end, I did remain.

As left her house, I did not wave
Ignored the kiss, that I'd been gave
My only thought, to leave that place
I missed the tear on Grandma's face.

To Grandma Jane's I ne'er returned
To little house where love I spurned
For God he came on autumn's day
Took Grandma Jane, she passed away.

On tenth of June, she turned fourteen
My daughter Jane, she did complain
I'm much too old my time to spend
With Grandma Sue, she's not my friend.

I thought of house upon the hill
With potted plants in window sill
I felt upon my cheek I fear
Memories of a grandma's tear.

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Wolfgang
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since 1999-05-24

Posts 124
Hamilton, Ont. Canada

1 posted 1999-06-27 11:36 AM

A very touching sentimental journey.
I hope (young) Jane will read this!
Well done.

Elizabeth

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Member Ascendant

since 1999-06-07

Posts 6871
Minnesota

2 posted 1999-06-27 01:16 PM

My grandparents aren't doing very well healthwise, it made me think of how much I love them. It was very sad.

Enotneicna
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since 1999-06-06

Posts 340
Oakland, Or, USA

3 posted 1999-06-27 01:36 PM

I am a grandma!
Have two granddaughters.
Wish I could spend more time with them they are 6 and 7.
Your poem was wonderful.
Brought a tear to my eye!

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Sharon Lee Rotondi
(Enotneicna)

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Ron

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-05-19

Posts 8669
Michigan, US

4 posted 1999-06-27 02:51 PM

Tim, it just doesn't get any better than this. Wonderful craftsmanship, wonderful message.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go phone my grandmother...

fjones
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since 1999-06-07

Posts 98
MS

5 posted 1999-06-27 06:39 PM

There is a lot of insite in these words.
Children truley outgrow the old fokes!

Poet deVine

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-26

Posts 22612
Hurricane Alley

6 posted 1999-06-27 10:49 PM

My grandparents are gone, and as yet I have not achieved that title. But this is a lovely tribute, should be printed on a card for Grandparents Day!

Nan

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since 1999-05-20

Posts 21191
Cape Cod Massachusetts USA

7 posted 1999-06-27 11:15 PM

Very, very wonderful sentiment, Tim - and don't we all have that attitude as teenagers - especially at fourteen...
My grandmother was quite a poet, too. She had no formal education, and just wrote (quite nostalgically) from her heart. This was one of her laments:

The Little White House
...by Velma M. Carlson (1903-1996)

The little white house at the
...end of the road
Is as lonesome is it can be.
...There was always love and laughter,
But now there's only me.
...We had a long life together
Which seems like only a dream.
...The years passed by so quickly ~
And were much too short, it seems.
...Many times we talked of the future
When the years would come and go.
...Never thinking the day would
Really come ~
...When one of us would be alone;
In the little white house at the
...End of the road.
May I stay here as long as I live.
...All there is now are the memories
I have,
...And the happiness they give.

(more of her poetry on my website)

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Nan's Morsels
netpoets.net/nan/index.html

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

8 posted 1999-06-28 09:16 AM

Thank you Tim. It is far too sorry that we need age for wisdom when we are young.

elvira
Senior Member

since 1999-07-06

Posts 936
California

9 posted 1999-07-17 09:07 PM

marvelous Tim...i'm sure she knew you loved her

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Childhood Memories...your countenance...hoarse whispers...My One and Only...Tribute to M.J... serving wench...stolen hours...devotion...Master...apart...

Delores Hall
Member

since 1999-07-16

Posts 342
USA

10 posted 1999-07-17 09:26 PM

To have had grandparent's in one's life is a
wonderful thing.

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