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Thin long grass
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Thin long grass |
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Krawdad Member Elite
since 2001-01-03
Posts 2597
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Thin long grass I sit in this summer heat in my grandmother’s hickory-stick rocker cabin furniture to her porch furniture to me I feel large in it though I am not they were smaller then The companion chair is here and empty would you like to come sit and visit The lights are out the neighbors won’t see we can listen to the breeze and talk about our poetry or maybe these chairs Don’t mind my cats they’ll come and go to the window’s ledges they’ll greet us in passing My grandfather’s lake cottage has been gone for some time now sold it he did the rat But sitting here I can remember the warm details that a child notices The smell of the fish fry at the end of the day and the family gathering around that long table The imagined fish that bent the stressed arc into his bamboo fly rod hung above the windows The porch bathed in a flickering glow of the reflected evening sun The slightly musty odor that rose up when you sat on the old squeaky bed The odd pungent smell of the lake when it went blue-green later on in the summer The red squirrels that would try to chew their way in every fall and sometimes did The wet wooden dock he put in every year that I slipped off of one day and nearly drowned The rickety stairs that stumbled up the steep eroding bank and the bur oak trees at the top The thin long grass It’s all still here lingering in these old cabin chairs Come sit with me the evening is young © 071102 |
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Kitty** Member
since 1999-07-27
Posts 428Charlottesville,VA USA |
You made me feel as if I was really there! I would love to sit with you and experience all of those sensations again. Enjoyed this very much. Kitty If you can't make it so, |
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1slick_lady Member Ascendant
since 2000-12-22
Posts 6088standing on a shadow's lace |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Krawdad You build the atmosphere of a perfect recollection. Very well done! I would love to sit with you in such a place. |
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Goodknight Member Elite
since 2002-06-15
Posts 2386Ohio, USA |
wonderful images that take me into the story - thanks for the very well written poem - Paul |
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Krawdad Member Elite
since 2001-01-03
Posts 2597 |
This comes off as a bit more of a list poem than I had intended, but helps fix those still vivid memories. Thank you for reading. |
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Mistletoe Angel 
since 2000-12-17
Posts 32816Portland, Oregon |
  (smiles) Oh my gosh, I love this, sweet friend, this reminded me of spending a time in a cabin in West Virginia, it was delightful and the scent of the pines and trees down there always made me smile and the country cooking! (big hugggssssss) This is wonderful, sweet friend, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet E.J, thank you for sharing!  May love and light always shine upon you! Love, Noah Eaton "Underneath your clothes there's an endless story..." |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
WOW! You took me there.... to that special place, you desribed.. and I enjoyed the visit so much! Thank you...Hugs. ~Somewhere in my heart I'm always |
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SimplyGold Senior Member
since 2002-07-10
Posts 1453 |
Here is to the things that really matter. Memories made to live by. Keep making new memories and share them as often as you can. SimplyGold |
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