Poetry Jam
809
Mom and Dad choose
this
family home in 1962
50 years as
home base
so
it
is
HARD
to say “GOOD-BY” to 809
I have packed photos from
my high school years,
through tears
I have packed photos of my
college days
the cloths then ...to
amaze!
I have put away pictures
of my kids at grandmas house
at
Easters and Christmas and
many Birthday cheers!
over the years....
wow
how
one
room
can change...strange!!
THE kids grew up here at
grandmas house ...what fun back then!
THEN
to my dis like at the time
this home had to became
mine
grandma and grandpa
or
mom and dad to me
had to move to more
assisted living so....
and
the house
choose
me!
NOW
I HAVE TO SAY...Wow
“Thank You Home for 10
years of time”
ALMOST AS HARD
ON
MY MIND
as
my body !!!
to move and leave
here....Cheers!
ah i feel you...there are def places that are hard to leave as they carry so much in the way of memory...my grandmothers house was like that...
ReplyDeleteHomes hold such memories, don't they? My parents lived in the same house from the time I was born until they died. For me, if I picture 'home' this is still the 'home' my mind conjures....my childhood home. It was so hard, after the deaths, to prepare it for sale and sell it. So many 'things' there, so many memories. When I go to the city of my childhood, I still very often drive past this house....and feel warm inside from all of my experiences there.
ReplyDeleteI think I feel in your poem both the sadness and the relief....I do GET that!
Our childhood homes will remain forever in our memories, but it is sometimes hard to let them go. Good luck on your move!
ReplyDeleteYou poured out your heart in this poem ... that's good for the soul.
ReplyDeleteLove this, so much emotion in a home and our childhood is lost forever, i can feel your love in this.
ReplyDeleteWhat family history in that one house. Such stability for your kids, all their memories in one place.........very hard - saying goodbye to an era, to a way of life.........to so much history. I hope the new place brings you new beginnings.
ReplyDelete809 sounds like a special place! Do you love with life and the prompts are similar?
ReplyDeletefor a while now the prompts and what I am doing now have been running side by side.
DeleteSaying goodbye to 'home base' can be as wrenching as it is liberating ... and oh, the effing packing that needs to be done ... ugh!
ReplyDeleteCool the way your lines form repetitious shapes of hourglass. Long time, 50 years, enough to become a big part of us, our psyche.
ReplyDeleteNOW that my home is on the market there is little time to type here but thanks for all the great comments and I WILL type with the next prompt but...I will have to type wed am as I get up before I leave on a bike ride week so...wondering what will be the idea I will have to work with on a short time situation..... FUN !
ReplyDeleteThat is very difficult to pack away those memories and leave home base. I love your rhyming scheme, it was very fun--conversational with the narrative :-) Great poem!
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