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Perspective Seen Through Centenarian Eyes (Timely Repost)
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Perspective Seen Through Centenarian Eyes (Timely Repost) |
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Nan
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since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA 
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(For my "other" wonderful grandmother - Ellen Anderson - (1903-____) Perspective seen through centenarian eyes Replete with visions time cannot disguise. Our blessing still is your sagacious smile, A hundred years ~ forgetful now, but wise. Nine decades past, a Finnish child gleams Vast riches lay in "Great American Dreams." Once seventeen, alone at Ellis Isle No limits hence - resplendent U.S. seems. Your days have seen the horse before the cart Gas lanterns e'er we knew electric start ~ Since "Model-T's" you'd sooner walk a mile. From Kitty Hawk, "Endeavor's" worlds apart. As Prohibition challenged freedom's tole The "Roaring 20's" yield to "Rock 'n' Roll". New-fangled gadgets ne'er befit your style - Simplicity, without remote control. A toiler through the days of suffragette. From radio to "color" TV set, And telegraph to bustling cell-phone dial, Now ICQ on world-wide internet In constant strife, our politics five score Whence numbered I or II, a Great World War Decried "Depression", "Holocaust" in heil, Korea, Vietnam, and Desert Storm. Our presidents, of forty-two you've seen Each one of nineteen hundred's seventeen, With JFK your favorite all the while. Great leaders slain for "civil rights" demean. Your family's most important to your life You proudly bore three young as Olof's wife. Lone son you've lost, yet his your eighth grandchild. Twelve greats, three great-greats, each one borne your rife. Today's applaud your independent stealth In quest of late undaunted elder's health With innate spirit challenge can't defile Or quell eyes' yearn, instilled old dreams of wealth Your riches now your great-great grandchildren. Our prayer's been met, dear Grammie Anderson, Perspective with a centenarian smile, You're seeing now the new millennium. |
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Nate Dogg Senior Member
since 1999-11-15
Posts 1658Georgia, Fulton |
Wow, what a neatly-ordered poem Nan! I like this piece of art you've created indeed! Nathan |
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Mike Member Elite
since 1999-06-19
Posts 2462 |
I enjoyed experiencing along with your grandmother. |
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RainbowGirl Member Elite
since 1999-07-31
Posts 3023United Kingdom |
Nan: We learn so much from those older and wiser, I love to talk to them and share their precious memories...thanks for letting us peek in..  HUSG Don't ask me where I'm going, just listen when I'm gone and far away you'll hear me singing softly to the dawn. |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
What a wise woman your grandmother |
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Denise
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since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
She certainly has seen quite a bit during this century! Wonderful poem, Nan. And I wish you and your family and Grammie a wonderful New Year! Denise |
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Nan
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since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
Thanks all - There were times this year when we didn't think she was going to make it... but she has... We did have to make her stop mowing the grass and shoveling snow, though (that's the truth).....  |
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Balladeer
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since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
This is wonderfully written, Nan, a time capsule of the current century. So much has happened, so many changes and still human values are where it's all at. Great poem. |
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Isis Member Ascendant
since 1999-09-06
Posts 6296Sunny Queensland |
Wonderful piece this. To see as much as your Grandmother would indeed be wonderful. Perhaps with another 40 - 50 years on my tally, I too will have such interesting stories to tell. This is timely indeed. At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. (Plato) ~Isis~ (Daughter of Mystery) |
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PhaerieChild Senior Member
since 1999-08-30
Posts 1787Aloha, Oregon |
Nan, What a timely piece!! I love it! You give us such wonderful insights from another's perspective and I feel very privileged to see things thru their eyes. Lovely piece.. Poetry~ Words falling on paper, painting a dream. Shawna R. Holder Boise, Idaho |
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Elizabeth Santos Member Rara Avis
since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269Pennsylvania |
Beautiful, beautiful tribute So enjoyable to read Liz |
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Rosemary J. Gwaltney Senior Member
since 1999-08-26
Posts 997northern mountains, Idaho |
A moving tribute - I thought it was a ballad at first - but what a story! It must be an experience, to have lived through these astounding hundred years, and having spanned two countries as well. ...Living is ever like crossing rivers; finding a new life on each shore ... RJG |
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Justin Thyme Member
since 1999-09-13
Posts 216Oz |
I guess that I am Justin Thyme to tell you that I LOVE this rhyme! Your Grammie, yes, has seen our world, in turmoil and progress unfurled! I read this piece some Thyme ago. So glad it's here again, y'know! To you and Grammie, and those near... a Fulfilling, Fine and GREAT New Year!  JT |
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U K Hero Member
since 1999-08-08
Posts 266England |
Much enjoyed, thanks Nan. |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
She's a gem, for sure - I wish we could have her around for another century - or at least a decade.... Thank you all, and Happy New Year to each of you..... |
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Echo Rhayne Senior Member
since 1999-09-17
Posts 1495Canyon Country, CA |
Wonderful work Nan!!! ~*~ Hell is not a place of fire and a devil with a tail and horns. But a place of torment because the light of God is gone. To escape this, accept the blood of Jesus Christ! ~*~ |
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