When Oranges Were a Penny - Leaving and Coming Back - A Magpie Tales Inspired Poem

Thank you, Tess, for a perfect visual to take me away - its been such a wistful weekend. This could not have been any more perfect.

 

"When Oranges Were a Penny - Leaving and Coming Back" a Poem Inspired from a Prompt by Magpie Tales. Come, write and read and comment with us.

 

 

the sky is grey

i'm drinking coffee

Peter, Paul and Mary

sing of puffs and planes and winds, blowing

the air smells like cement

made wet by a hot summer sprinkling

and there’s nothing to do but wonder

where was I when oranges were a penny

and beech nut was a chewing tobacco not a  gum?

kisses went missed or unnoticed in my once

encyclopedic memory

dawn’s come and go and I forget which

smile came with the peachy train call or

tell the difference between the lavender holding

of the baby birds, opening their beaks

to my poetry or wait, just wait, just wait - -

waiting to come up with the just right words instead of the

garbled holding pattern that appears.

never convenient.

let it begin again. Kim, on guitar, singing. (sounding foreign)

go ahead, sing it again. ghzet was how it sounded to my

little girl ear, almost sleeping

thin blanket on the assigned green camping cot

if I stayed awake just a little bit longer

this will go on forever

for this brief cup of coffee and

time, fingers on the keyboard -

first verse, again and again and again  

grapefruit is a nickel

  = = = = =

 

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Comments

[Donetta]

Wow. I really enjoyed reading this and the last line was the perfect ending.

[Arushi Ahuja]

Memories... even i wish i was born in a little older times... cheaper less technology more friends more fruits than junk... beautiful past!!

[Julie Jordan Scott]

Thank you so much, Donetta and Arushi. I enjoyed writing this a lot.... took me down memory lane and back again. I appreciate your visit and comments!

[Helen]

This is awesome .....

[Kathe W.]

very nicely done-

[Kutamun]

A veritable smorgasboard of feeling , meaning

[Eddie Bluelights]

Great take . . . :) Eddie

Clouds and Silvery Linings

[Jen]

Beautiful! Very wistful. You perfectly conveyed that sense of nostalgia the photograph suggests.

~Jen