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Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

0 posted 2006-11-21 07:42 AM

1956 Moment

I’m not good with the make of cars,
it was either dark blue or even black, there
weren’t many choices then, though its interior was tan,
I know, because I was afraid that blood from
my knee wouldn’t come out from the space of tan…silence screams!

But you…now, now I remember, it was that day
you had begged, cried, to be in front; and I remember,
that the dark blue, hard metal console
and how it found your soft baby chin then,
when another vehicle ran that sky-high blood red light,
hard squealing sounds, Dad tried to stop, too
quickly, and

Collision sounds ~ somewhere else in kingdom spent.
Not recalling disharmony, only flowing red…
a young chin’s first cut, not even from a
bully-boy’s fight, just a child’s slipped body
from a benched seat in a ‘50’s car … coming to a stop too fast…

we never went home; Daddy headed to some doctor
more heed paid to blood than tendon,
because I lied, I didn’t hurt,
I wasn’t bleeding, you were, you needed more…
while Doc pasted temperance; and I recall your fear…

~*~

this day, 2006, today, this now, through
corporeal stress, functioning coming too hard,
a sequence in someone else’s good deal,
some mind diagramming moments to press
into non-existent spaces…and oh, then, into my space…

this, my own chin, began a’tingling,
a striking lightning rod across one and one quarter inch length
of rip, tear, red, you…your chin;
my finger, a left handed raise to stop
some non-existent blood
and your birth day is Saturday.

Did you think
that I could forget?

~*~

RCR – 11-25-53/02-05-06

Seymour Tabin
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Tamarac Fla

1 posted 2006-11-21 07:49 AM

Sunshine
There are those moments. Enjoyed the read,

Marge Tindal

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Florida's Foreverly Shores

2 posted 2006-11-21 09:05 AM

Karilea~
And in this tender moment of recall ...
you caught me misty-eyed~

*Huglets*
~*marge*~

~*The sound of a kiss is not as strong as that of a cannon, but it's echo endures much longer*~
Email - noles1@totcon.com

passing shadows
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displaced

3 posted 2006-11-21 09:16 AM

I'm not sure what to say

that moment can stay with a person forever, and usually does

I know

Enchantress
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Canada eh.

4 posted 2006-11-21 09:35 AM

Flashbacks can hurt almost as much as when they actually happened.

Autumn, the year's last loveliest smile~

Gentle Spirit
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5 posted 2006-11-21 09:49 AM

MommK, yes I do understand.....

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Deep in the heart

6 posted 2006-11-21 10:05 AM

Memories live.

Nightshade

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just out of reach

7 posted 2006-11-21 10:13 AM

Martie

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California

8 posted 2006-11-21 11:34 AM

ahhh, sissie...it is good you wrote this, and even better that you were able to post it. Tears are not always easy to share.

vandana

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USA

9 posted 2006-11-21 11:42 AM

good read

Pressie
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since 2006-11-14

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Oklahoma

10 posted 2006-11-21 11:56 AM

"Collision sounds ~ somewhere else in kingdom spent.
Not recalling disharmony, only flowing red…
a young chin’s first cut, not even from a
bully-boy’s fight, just a child’s slipped body
from a benched seat in a ‘50’s car … coming to a stop too fast"

Ah ...yes those flashbacks, had a few myself, some good, some bad, but sure enjoyed sharing this one with you Sunshine.

Omnia vincit amor

TP

The Lady
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The Southwest

11 posted 2006-11-21 03:17 PM

as moments grow close
memories crowd
and bless

MGROVES

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california

12 posted 2006-11-22 12:04 PM

brings back a fearfull childhood memory for me also~

My spirit will rise
above the sea~
There will be no drowning
of my soul or me~

MsSouthernOrchid
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13 posted 2006-11-22 12:25 PM

I don't know what to say, except thank you for sharing this. Bless you.

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