Hi there Frank,
It's difficult writing about family-folk who may actually read what we
write, isn't it? lol
This is wonderful, as usual. Perhaps a stanza break; S2-L7?
I, for one, enjoy reading about other's families in poems. It's like being
able to peek in someone's living room or parlor or kitchen, like a
mini-movie in my mind...whatever...
CW, Mary :O)
--- Frank Faust <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> my father has threatened his silence
> for I cannot be trusted
> each time he speaks he says there is a chance
> I will take him at more than face value and elevate
> his memories into verse-sagas and tales
> when he reads what I've written he feels somehow displaced
> by a man concocted from fiction penned in his first person
> it is a strange way to revisit the past
> and it makes him uncomfortable
>
> he is smiling when he says it
> so perhaps he is joking
> but there is an edge to the sound of his laughter
> he has repeated himself it is three times now
> and he looks at me uncertainly
> as though he's no longer sure
> of just who I am or why
> this long ago history is worthy of writing
> when the stories are only of every day poverty
> and not so exciting
> to those that lived through them at the time
> so why would I bother with that after all of these years
>
> but my mother says that I should ignore him
> write whatever I want to and there is plenty of wall space
> so one more framed poem will not be too many
> and whatever it is I believe I am doing
> while they don't understand it at all
> she is sure it is worthy of good faith and pride
=====
Good Cheer & Be Well,
Maryann Hazen-Stearns
"Under The Limbo Stick"
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