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Open Poetry #11

Was I, Once?

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2001-01-07 12:35 PM

Was I, Once?
Virginia Salter

tooling along on her scooter
sling bag over her left shoulder
hair, bouncy crop of deep licorice
tiny-lensed shades
relaxed grip on handles
heading home

sent me back to carefree days
a kid
with Saturday to meander
through endless, timeless hours
I was different, though

never petite
never had tiny little hip pockets
sashaying...
o’ course
back then, when I was ten
girls only wore dresses,
skirts

never had an eighteen-inch waist
not in my makeup
even when I was svelte
ha-ha, never was
‘cept, now, when I see my pics
time-frozen images
skinny at sixteen,
even then, twenty-four inch waist

reverie interrupted
hooligans at play
playing keep-away with some boy’s jacket
there she is again
popped right back into my environ
hollerin’, smilin’,
gettin’ in on the ‘fun!’

Youth!
Was I there, once?
upon a time?

© January 6, 2001

Mark Bohannan
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-06-21

Posts 7269
In the winds of Cherokee song

1 posted 2001-01-07 12:40 PM

Virginia, I sometimes ask myself that very same question when I see children on the streets playing and letting the world pass by as they create their own memories. This was so wonderfully illustrated by you that I almost found myself dazing into a moment of reflection. Loved it much.

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

2 posted 2001-01-07 10:28 AM

Thanks, Mark! That's a good thing to have happen from my writing. Thanks for reading, too!

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