Grandpa"s House & From Iraq with Love [Two Poems]
Grandpa's House [The ole Real House] The house needed painting Sun-blistered and flaking Grandpa started to have us Boys--Mike and I-- start Doing some scraping-- While he, pealed off the ole Paint, and started painting...
Just a humble wooden house With several rooms, but Strong enough to keep the Winds and winter snows out, How he loved that ole house!...
An' his well-kept yard, which Contained lilac bushes, and Big shade trees; where birds And squirrels lived--season To season, scattered on...
Branches--they looked like Play things (back in the 50s) #807 8/18/05 Note by the author:"We all grew up together I suppose you might say, my brother and I, mom and grandpa, a few aunts in the beginning, all living in an extended family environment; that is how it felt anyhow.
Although the house belonged to my grandfather, we all lived together; now itall seems so long ago, and what pops out of my mind is:I never did take a liking to painting houses after painting his a few times.
" From Iraq with Love American's most often are Certain of what they want From the world-- In a large measure, In charge: Gold, machinery, Symbols It's what it's all About...
Shaving Showering Outfitting Medications Cosmetics It's what it's all About...
Breakfast Banquettes TV's and couches Adolescents Engagement rings-- Thanksgiving's: Blessings, gratitude (no secrets here) It's what it's all About...
Family Snow and rain North by a highway Dirt and mud Children Classmates Cookies Just beautiful Things--freedom To say and be That's the way it was meant To be: An' then, Along came a bullet: No mercy Your dead!...
Nothing more said.
#806 8/16/05 Note by the author: "I am not for or against the war in Iraq, for the most part; although I do believe America did do a great service for the world, and the Iraqi people by bringing down Saddam, a world demonic beast, from his throne, and perhaps it was worth the price, then and now; we are all counting the price right this minute, are we not [?]But is it worth it to continue?A pale question at best, now facing everyone in the country.
There are wiser men than I up in Washington D.
C.
, figuring these things out, and surely we do not know everything of what is in the background.
But being in a war, I do know this: we won the war, it should be over, and we are not responsible to rebuild their whole country at the cost of taxing the American citizen to death: financially, resources, and our youth wise.
I do pray that President Bush will bring our boys home.
Enough is enough.
"
Just a humble wooden house With several rooms, but Strong enough to keep the Winds and winter snows out, How he loved that ole house!...
An' his well-kept yard, which Contained lilac bushes, and Big shade trees; where birds And squirrels lived--season To season, scattered on...
Branches--they looked like Play things (back in the 50s) #807 8/18/05 Note by the author:"We all grew up together I suppose you might say, my brother and I, mom and grandpa, a few aunts in the beginning, all living in an extended family environment; that is how it felt anyhow.
Although the house belonged to my grandfather, we all lived together; now itall seems so long ago, and what pops out of my mind is:I never did take a liking to painting houses after painting his a few times.
" From Iraq with Love American's most often are Certain of what they want From the world-- In a large measure, In charge: Gold, machinery, Symbols It's what it's all About...
Shaving Showering Outfitting Medications Cosmetics It's what it's all About...
Breakfast Banquettes TV's and couches Adolescents Engagement rings-- Thanksgiving's: Blessings, gratitude (no secrets here) It's what it's all About...
Family Snow and rain North by a highway Dirt and mud Children Classmates Cookies Just beautiful Things--freedom To say and be That's the way it was meant To be: An' then, Along came a bullet: No mercy Your dead!...
Nothing more said.
#806 8/16/05 Note by the author: "I am not for or against the war in Iraq, for the most part; although I do believe America did do a great service for the world, and the Iraqi people by bringing down Saddam, a world demonic beast, from his throne, and perhaps it was worth the price, then and now; we are all counting the price right this minute, are we not [?]But is it worth it to continue?A pale question at best, now facing everyone in the country.
There are wiser men than I up in Washington D.
C.
, figuring these things out, and surely we do not know everything of what is in the background.
But being in a war, I do know this: we won the war, it should be over, and we are not responsible to rebuild their whole country at the cost of taxing the American citizen to death: financially, resources, and our youth wise.
I do pray that President Bush will bring our boys home.
Enough is enough.
"