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Chidhood for what it's worth  

12/24/2006 1:40 pm

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12/27/2006 9:03 am

 FAIR TRADE
Sometimes when I hold this.
Faded old Globe.
That I used at school.To see where the oceans were
And the five continents.
The lines of latitude and longitude.
The north pole and the south pole.
Sometimes when I hold this Tattered and wreaked old cardboard pumpkin.
I think here in my hands rest the fair fields of my childhood.
Where still lie or wander old games tops and pets.
A house where I was little,
A place where I was as old as I was tall.
And afraid to swear cause Grandma might hear and send a bear to eat me up.
Where I loved the pink clenches, the red ,white and pink fists of roses; Where I watched the rain that the skye's thew down,
In puddles and rut fulls of irregular mirrors of soft brown glass upon the ground.
Sometimes I think this old school globe is a parcel of my past,
a basketful of half forgotten things.
And now here I stand with it some when in the summertime.
All alone in an empty and forgotten school house ,
Where about me hang old maps an abacus,pictures, blackboards and stand empty desks.
If I raise my hand no teacher will demand what I want,
But if someone in authority were here I'd say give me this old word back whose shattered husk I clasp.
And I'll give you in fair exchange the real true bitter sad one.
That's filled .
Not with a child's remembered and pleasant skies .
But rather with blood puss horror,death,mothers ,fathers and Lies
skyeone2
7192 posts 

12/26/2006 5:18 am

 Another poem to make a person think. I really like it Babes!

Hugs,
Skye

Blessed Be

spunky11961
54366 posts 

12/26/2006 8:48 am

 You took me back to my elementary school days... an age of innonce filled with nightmares of the Viet Nam war looming in the back ground.... the '60s~

~Jeff
~spunky

swallow_22us
106 posts 

12/26/2006 1:56 pm

 Thankyou Jeff I served in that insanity from 68 to 71 nothing good to say about it.
Swallow

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