This week's Big Tent Poetry Prompt followed the theme of "Stranded". I felt ready to write of South Dakota again. These days I am longing to return. Go figure!
Once upon the time
there was a family
two girls and a boy
and a Mom, perpetually
engaging in the optimistic
who wished her children
knew a life that fit like
Cinderella's slipper over
their carefully pedicured
life plan
Instead these three
learned from experience
how to rise up following
disappointment
how to huddle together
when their collective
heart cracked open,
bleeding and mixed
with salty tears
She would have rather been
the glittering fairy godmother than
this real mom, hair needing a shampoo
and stranded on the South
Dakota prairie
Miles from home
Miles from where
they were attempting
to go
Like this poem
which is having a difficult
time finding its ending
This mother looks
out her Bakersfield kitchen
window, facing East
wishing she was
someplace else
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This feels so authentic! Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Jeanne Aguilar | March 22, 2011 at 06:03 AM