Finding Rhyme for a Season

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Open Poetry #13

Finding Rhyme for a Season

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2001-05-17 12:12 PM

Finding Rhyme For a Season
Virginia Salter

nothing much more beautiful and comforting
than the aroma of roast turkey, apple pie and fresh homemade bread
that was Grandma’s at Christmas, like being hugged by family
to step in to those smells, it meant smiles and laughter

dumb jokes, big bellies and afternoon snores, it meant pumpkin pie,
whipping cream after cold, roast turkey sandwiches in the evening
it meant sweet pickles, dill pickles, olives in a glass
tossed salad, ambrosia, a laddie and a lass

cousins, aunts, uncles, then, too,
Mama and Dad, and me and you
now I can only go there in my dreams
and memories granted in my mind’s-eye stream

I miss those times, I miss them great
but if I hadn’t had them, that’s what I’d hate

So I’ll take the sweet that fills my dreams
carry it with me by the mountain streams
I’ll take it to the shore, the desert, too,
I’ll tarry in the garden beneath the blue

©May 17, 2001

Alan
Senior Member

since 2000-09-12

Posts 1499
right next door

1 posted 2001-05-17 12:17 PM

Memories of family gathering should never be forgotten. This is a lovely tribute to a time well worth remembering
Alan

joycerogers
Member

since 2001-05-16

Posts 83
Texas

2 posted 2001-05-17 01:19 PM

Thanks for taking me back...so well written.

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Interloper

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-06

Posts 8369
Deep in the heart

3 posted 2001-05-18 05:13 PM

Well, I just gained 2 pounds reading this

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Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

4 posted 2001-05-18 05:35 PM

VAS,
You made me hungry and sad at the same time.
Good write. Sy

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

5 posted 2001-05-18 07:18 PM

Thank you all for responding to this poem with such positive feed back. After the low comments of this week, I was about to ask for all my poems to be deleted from this forum because people had stopped reading them.

Maybe you can stand them after all.

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