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A Man Can't Go Back Home
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A Man Can't Go Back Home |
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John Yaws Senior Member
since 1999-10-09
Posts 860Texas 
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“A Man Can’t Go Back Home” The gate sags on it’s hinges- The house needs painting bad- Out yonder on the hillside... Are the graves of Mom and Dad. Out back is that old oak tree- Where me and Jim once played- He fell somewhere in France they say- In foreign ground was laid. The lower fields are overgrown With thorn, and briar, and brush. To see the place in such a shape- My daddy’s heart would crush. I almost smell the fragrance- Of Mama baking bread... Ten years have passed, but it’s still hard To picture her as dead. I thought that me, and my son, Bob- Would make the old place pay... But when that car came driving up, It wiped those dreams away. They all are gone, I am the last- Survivor’s what I am. Cause Bobby tripped a booby trap- Somewhere in Vietnam. I walk through Mama’s flower beds Which grass have overgrown- Alas, I find that it is true... A man can’t go back home. |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
This is good writing Gunslinger...James |
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inot2B Member Elite
since 2000-09-18
Posts 2205Arkansas |
This pulls at my heart strings, cause I know what you write is true. Nothing said or done can make things the way they use to be. Thank you for the look inside your heart today. |
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Irish Rose Member Patricius
since 2000-04-06
Posts 10263 |
sell the place and buy a condo! Gosh, give me a kleenex over this one!!!!! Kathleen Blake |
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Mother_Earth Senior Member
since 2000-11-20
Posts 13701/2 year Texas & 1/2 year Michigan |
Oh, Gunslinger, if a man can't go back home, where in heaven's name can he go? You made the tears flow and the thoughts with them. For some reason, the older I get the more those memories become clear. I guess I like it back there because I know what will happen and the shock isn't quite as bad. I hope you can find a place to go back to to heal your soul. Hugs, ME |
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RMW Senior Member
since 2001-03-21
Posts 1424 |
Gunslinger.....This is distinctly...American. My name was once Bobby. But I didn't trip a mine in Viet Nam. And I wonder about that sometimes. Thank you very much for sharing your heart. Bob |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Slinger~ Poignant phrasing. Touching remember. ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ |
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darabeth Junior Member
since 2001-02-17
Posts 33 |
Very touching.I think everyone would like to go back home at some point in their life.If anything just to hug our loved ones who are no longer here a little bit tighter.Thanks for the trip back home. Dara Beth |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
Poignant and powerful... very well written! |
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