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Flagging Memory
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Flagging Memory |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart 
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Flagging Memory Need to quit watching the movies they make me cry a romance, you ask no a movie of honor war and commitment and the flag is this what it means then to grow old and have young memories to watch the here and now on disk and skip back in b&w time to a flag and a scene… picture it… she was eleven science camp ~ heaven! rocks and toads flora and fauna and boys over in Camp Towanda skinny and shy gangly and awkward her biggest dream? someday to be heard… but now at this moment she took great delight in looking forward to star gazing that night… but to leave early they did after a rainy-drizzly noon left camp at 4:00 fortune to smile on them soon… for the day would consist of a nature's hike and such rocks to be named and flowers to be touched but it was when they crested the peak and looked back down on camp to seek their landmark, the flag, blown by the breeze and touched by a rainbow, there in the east the young girl just stared, so entranced was her eye the goodness of man's flag gloried by God from high her throat clutched, her green eyes teared startled, her heart touched by the cheering that neared for fellow campers turned and saw the sight, too and the bugler saw and the bugler blew an early taps, to mark the scene the flag flapping in the breeze as the rainbow's colors gleamed before they faded in the east all the kids of grade six on a science walk, to pick up sticks waiting for the night, to see the stars now wondered just who they were to have witnessed such a scene a moment of peace, in 1963 October's flag flying, in the dying sun just weeks before the shot of a gun… no, my friend there's not a time when I can look upon this flag of mine and not know what it means how it makes my eyes shine oh 'tis yours and others', too I hope it means the same to you 01.09.01 Karilea If I whisper, will you listen?... I would rather be silent and write, than speak loudly and be bound. KRJ |
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Martie
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since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Karilea--This is so touching a memory...beautifully written...makes me want to hug you...so I will...(((((((hug))))))))! |
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doreen peri Member Elite
since 1999-05-25
Posts 3812Virginia |
quote: these lines especially hit me... it ALL hit me... what fine writing, ms karilea... so special, distinct, real... so wise and expressive... hey!! anybody ever told you that you have a way with words??? LOL!! of COURSE they have... and i am in a long line saying the same... enjoyed this much, miss sunshiny one! *smile*  |
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BSC
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since 2000-02-04
Posts 2919New York, USA |
Wow Karilea ~ So touching, so beautiful... hey, I was in 6th grade then too...and I have green eyes.... wow.... Bonnie |
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Paula Finn Member Ascendant
since 2000-06-17
Posts 5546missouri |
The flag always affects me like that...I have seen it wave in many places from Missouri to Hawaii, over schoolyards and Memorials...I have watched children say the Pledge...not truly knowing what the words meant yet still feeling that glory as she waves...you really touched me with this one |
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bbent Senior Member
since 2001-01-07
Posts 521Alaska |
Hi Sunshine, I believe I may have been in the sixth grade in 63, Your poem left me with enough images in my head that I thought I might be having flashbacks.....................Peace bbent ~ live and let live ~ |
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tracie66 Member Elite
since 2000-01-18
Posts 4713Australia |
Oh sunshiny girl, this is a wonderful touching piece, so very well penned...boy those images just fantastic  Tracie~ Love is the life of the soul... It is the harmony of the universe |
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Marsha
since 2000-07-10
Posts 7423Maidstone Kent England |
Kari love, this was utterly utterly wonderful, it really and trully is awesome. You know what the English are like, well, the ones of my age and education anyway. We tend not to take much notice of our flag, possibly because we think that in our past we did an awful lot of hi jacking. Of peoples lands, their culture, their identities. (Don't get me started on that!) But as always you have portrayed a brilliant wonder. and Yes I LOVE IT, as always. Take care love Majestic Marsha Take back the hope you gave,- I claim Only a memory of the same Robert Browning |
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Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Karilea~ 'is this what it means then to grow old and have young memories' Yes, and doing it well is the key ! You've captured some poignant memories here. ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ [email protected] |
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CocoBaci Member Elite
since 2000-05-06
Posts 3043 |
Spectacular write Sunshine... I enjoyed the read immensely... Thank you PoetLady coco |
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Stan Member
since 2001-01-01
Posts 120Inland Empire Southern California |
How lifting to see a touch of tradition being forwarded in the tangle of changing times. And done so well. Thanks for this fine work. |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Martie, your hugs are warm and wonderful...thank you... Doreen...didn't mean to hit so hard...but that you were touched by any line of mine fills me up with pleasure...thank you for letting me know... Bonnie, we've touched before on the "age" thing...we're getting younger all the time...{~,^} Paula, sometimes I can't even sing the National Anthem because my throat chokes...but that's me...sentimental little dudette that I am....thank you for reading.... bbent...if only one good memory came to you, then the poem and I have done our job...thank you for sharing... tracie66, so glad you could see the whole scene...and for sharing that with me... Marsha, tell your counterparts..."notice the flag"...and then, be a role model....hugs.... Marge, I think you managed to pass on not one but two compliments there...thank you White Feather... Coco...PoetLady? Thank you!.... |
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Balladeer
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since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
...and the next month I was on the firing range in basic training watching that same flag as it was being lowered to half-mast and I, too, had those tears in my eyes.... |
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Wilfred Yeats Member Elite
since 2000-08-04
Posts 2704Wilmington, Delaware |
Oh yes - I felt that way - in sixth grade - - well thru my 20's - into 30's - somewhere in there - I realized there is a belief that it represents the flexibility to continually improve - that ours is still an imperfect society - thus - the amendments to our constitution, the recognition that prohibition was not what some hoped - viet nam - was/is not our country etc - and when those with extreme right - or extreme left opinions hold up the flag - I get frightened because I don't agree - I'm a christian in a plural society- - well - you get what I'm saying - I hold the flag high and proudly as I believe Emma Lazarus might have when she penned the poetry on the statue of liberty |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
This one made me swallow hard, Sunshiney one... ya done good! |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Ah Deer, I hope I didn't pull back any bad memories...such times... Mr. Yeats...never drop the flag...and your response could be a piece of prose in itself...write on!... Suthern...thank you for sharing that...'tis much appreciated... |
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doreen peri Member Elite
since 1999-05-25
Posts 3812Virginia |
i haven't done the search yet...time limitations plust the combination of my brain trying to figure out if it's still in my head... LOL... geesh... but just to let you know THIS one's a go!!! i want to find one more... and it's going to be hard choosing... ... submit, my friend because you don't want to end up like me and not know how to... LOL! *ghope that made sense |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
You ALWAYS make sense....thank you Doreen...for the "go" and the faith... how else would I know? |
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Charisma
since 2000-09-30
Posts 5906lost in blue pages |
love this flagging memory, and you describe it so clear, heart touching words. ((hugs)) Charisma |
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Mark Bohannan Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-21
Posts 7269In the winds of Cherokee song |
I could never tell you what this one means to me but just know that it is one that I will cherish and also share with my father as I know it will hold the same meaning to him as it does me. "THIS IS ONE" for your book for sure. Loved the feeling and the redflections in this piece much. |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Charisma, thank you for your kind comment... Mark, knowing that you will share this with your father...well, that tells me that I did something right...thank you for the smile... |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
Now you know I love sharing your memories, and this is one of the very best of yours, thank you. ~Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self~ Cyril Connolly |
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