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VAS Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450Oregon |
Despair Virginia Salter  Is that where we are? Must we go on from here? Can we turn back? Or skip over this piece of history? Will we find a place, a place of peace again, somewhere? Safety in numbers unless the numbers are for counting adding subtracting learning. Where are more shootings these days? Banks, where money draws? Parks, where visitors pause? No, in the land of ABC, in the crib of 123, that’s where we might meet our destiny. Will you play hopscotch with me? © March 7, 2001 |
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Bill Charles Member Patricius
since 2000-07-11
Posts 10619highways, & byways, for now |
VAS - you asked, "Will you play hopscotch with me?" My answer is yes, if it would help answer some of the questions. BC |
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VAS Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450Oregon |
I think the last line transpired with a two-fold feeling...a wish to go back to one's childhood, the time of my childhood, when school was a safe place to be. The most worrisome thing, 'board' of education, hurt feelings, thrown rocks or punches. Then it also had a feeling of forboding...would you be willing to step on the school grounds with me, a teacher, taking chances with one's own life and making right choices to keep others safe? thanks for your response...I don't know if your joining me would answer the questions, but I'd have company while dealing with them, eh? |
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Lady In White
since 2001-02-12
Posts 2799USA |
Miss Virginia...a sad write fraught with innuendos...all fully understood. However, the impact of the piece would have done much better without that little icon, don't you think? But that's me. I like simplicity in a poetic piece. The sadness of this true event reaches out and touches us all. |
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walker Member Elite
since 2001-02-11
Posts 2240Florida |
Vas, is truly sad that our children have to go through the things are in the news these days. And like hopscotch,you never know where it can fall. its too bad, that we have to write about these things, but well expressed. |
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Irish Rose Member Patricius
since 2000-04-06
Posts 10263 |
Yes, I would love to play hopscotch and go back to a childhood, a new one! Yesterday, I played checkers. I enjoyed this!! Kathleen Blake "When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass, and the sun drips honey." Laurie Lee |
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VAS Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450Oregon |
Thanks, all, and Lady in White, I fully agree, I should have dispensed with the icon. Don't know for sure what made me do it. |
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Cerenity Member Elite
since 2000-02-16
Posts 2637Escondido-California |
Hi Vas, This has been a hard few days for my girls, it hit so close to home and being older and more obseverent they have had this on their minds alot, they have had questions and its so hard sometimes to answer them, they did say there glad they do home schooling and so am I, you did very well with this piece thank you, Love, Cerenity "God doesn't have to be reminded that we exist. We have to be reminded that He exist!" (Writer Unknown) |
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Marsha
since 2000-07-10
Posts 7423Maidstone Kent England |
Viginia love, Wonderful piece of writing from you, the questions with no real answers. But I'm there in spirit with you standing on the line. Beautiful work here love, excellent flow and content Take care love as always Mushy  Take back the hope you gave,- I claim Only a memory of the same Robert Browning |
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JCGF Member
since 2001-01-19
Posts 72MA |
I enjoyed this one VAS. Ah, yes. I remember when school was a safe place to be. What is safe anyway? Thanks for the read. Tammy |
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Elizabeth Santos Member Rara Avis
since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269Pennsylvania |
Can we "skip over this part of history?" I wonder how many souls have asked that question. You have read the minds of many with this poem. How great it would be to curl back up into the security blanket of childhood. Very interesting thoughts Liz |
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VAS Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450Oregon |
Thanks, all for reading. And Elizabeth...I know you're surely speaking of 'our' childhoods as today's childhood doesn't seem to hold nearly the security we were afforded. Not to mention, kids are ever increasingly being forced to grow up faster and faster. It can all be very sad. When I was 18, my folks were hard-pressed to leave me overnight so a friend came and stayed with me. Today, kids are latch-key and are left overnight at the age of 11. It's sad. |
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