These Things

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These Things

Jelly jars with holes in the lids

                Tombs designed as homes for crawling caterpillar

                and flickering firefly alike.

Judging the value of a structure

                solely on the basis of climbability.

The idea that “Because”

                is an irrefutable answer.

These things remind me of childhood.

These things, and sandcastles and cloud-castles

and even the Easter Bunny had a theme song.

 

The prom dress that got away

                even though I hid it in the wrong section

                of the store and came back the next day.

Begging my mom for rides to work

                so I wouldn’t have to wait in the pouring rain.

The idea that the boy I’d known the longest

                owed me too much to hurt me.

These things remind me of adolescence.

These things, and pimples, and hiding my dimples,

and too much makeup making me look like a doll.

 

The day someone finally says

                the sweetest words I’ve never heard

                and means them for me?

Sweet potato pie by the Shop-Rite-bagful

                every time I come back to campus?

The idea that I must give up

                and let the future plan itself?

(If I get the chance to look back)

Will these things remind me of adulthood?

These things, and my son’s face, and the address to my first place,

and it never being too late to say “When I grow up”?

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Sx9 commented on These Things

11-06-2010

but you already do,and so you seek to go back for life can be true and false,and today love must be more to quench yesterdays thirst so we travel to refine our mind of whats if,but its already gone and so we write and enjoy the moment that save time,,we all do,good things make sense,,

Len commented on These Things

09-02-2010

This was an nice piece!!!!! Your style is emotion on steroids, vivid and dramatic. Yet and still just the simple everyday stuff we all realate to quite easily.

gmcookie commented on These Things

07-03-2010

Maya, How can it be that I haven't seen your poetry before? This one is brilliant. You get a 10

To have great poets there must be great audiences too.

Walt Whitman, American Poet (1819-1892)

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