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Open Poetry #37

Days Of Crystal Memories

icebox
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since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

0 posted 2006-02-11 10:19 AM

Unfettered window,
tepid sun,
this Winter’s day
of weather jumble has begun,
silly newsies like to run in circles
as they chant their liturgies
to chicken little’s son.
I can’t reach the memories of childhood
when I would pray for snow
so I could drag my bladed sleigh
out from beneath the piles of life’s debris,
and for brief moments
I’d be free
to go flying down the icy hills of snow;
somewhere
within the years that went through my life,
I lost the skills to sing that freedom
song of single note,
the throaty yell of childhood’s tenor
just barely in control
as at the edge of terror
I’d go flying through the snow.

©2006 by icebox

[This message has been edited by icebox (02-11-2006 11:29 AM).]

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

1 posted 2006-02-11 12:01 PM

Icebox Stay warm...blizzard or not! Do you still have a sled?

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

2 posted 2006-02-11 12:39 PM

"I lost the skills to sing that freedom
song of single note,
the throaty yell of childhood’s tenor"

Really? Could have fooled me...lol -- 'Course I guess I would not call it a throaty tenor now...the voice is mature! The snowy hill has changed and the sled's a different vehicle, but maybe you still play daredevil now and then, huh?

Much enjoyed this write and it did evoke memories of my brother double dog daring me to stand up on my sled while going down the hill; sled jumping cow paths causing it to fly into the air and eventually crash into the icy stream below...frostbitten hands....mom's hot cocoa and chili...and the desire to do it all again a couple of hours later.

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

3 posted 2006-02-11 02:56 PM

You never fail to thaw frozen memories.
*soft smile*..this one really got me.
Hugs YOU!!

The Lady
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-12-26

Posts 7634
The Southwest

4 posted 2006-02-11 11:33 PM

"I can’t reach the memories of childhood
when I would pray for snow"

And yet you reached them so well. And you reached my memories so well too. I enjoyed myself greatly. Thank you.

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