Starting a thread of tiny poems

[firefangled]

For motherhubbard

I wish you would come and visit.
Bring babies and I’ll make coffee
and just let them play.
We could talk about everyone
who is not here and have a
laugh and enjoy our time together.
I’ll make some lunch and we’ll have a cookie.
I won’t be the mom and you won’t be the baby.
But we’ll be friends who love each other
And laugh and enjoy our time together.

I am giving you a big spontaneous hug that I can't help. I hope you don't mind.

You are such a perceptive parent to know this. Once we grow up, we must begin to have relationships as one person to another person for true love to grow. I try and explain this to my oldest. Sometimes she confuses independence with distance and it makes her sad.

May your cookies and coffee be the best you've ever had!

[motherhubbard]

OK, HOw can I refuse that. I'll be right there.

[Granny5]

I am giving you a big spontaneous hug that I can't help. I hope you don't mind.

You are such a perceptive parent to know this. Once we grow up, we must begin to have relationships as one person to another person for true love to grow. I try and explain this to my oldest. Sometimes she confuses independence with distance and it makes her sad.

May your cookies and coffee be the best you've ever had!

It took a while for both of us to understand it all, fire. motherhubbard and her sister and brother are our best friends now. They have developed into independent adults and I don't think they live their lives trying to please us. That makes it easy to be friends. I think we just like each other a lot more now.

OK, HOw can I refuse that. I'll be right there.

OH MY GOODNESS!!! No cookies, nothing to fix for lunch....why do I make these silly promises??? I'll put on the coffee.

[ampoule]

What I want to know, is it US you are going to talk about. hahaha...you know, since we're the ones who aren't there.

[Granny5]

oh, you are here. We don't have any good gossip about you, amp, to talk about unless you tell us something juicy.

[ahsiam]

words are............
but not less;
can be a soul in a parchment.

[Granny5]

Thank you for coming
have a nice day
come visit again
now please go away



How did you sleep?
Did you rest well?
I work all the day,
played with some kids,
did homework with one,
then a bath and a story,
your phone call to say
"Good night my love".
Then I took that little
White Pill that I saved for
Last night and I slept
the whole night away.

[Granny5]

Suspended in time
Waiting for you
To come home
To start living
again

[Riesa]

Oh! I like this very much.

Thanks Granny!

I left it up to you
to remember the constellations.
How they've become just holes in the sky,
now that I don't remember
their names.

[AuntShecky]

Thank you for coming
have a nice day
come visit again
now please go away

This was great. It reminded me of something I read once about Gertrude Stein and her "long time companion," Alice B. Toklas when they were living in France and all the up and coming writers, the ex-patriates used to come and visit. Either Gertrude or Alice said, "We love to see them come, but we really love to see them go."





I wrote the following when I read the news story that said that people who socialize are healthier than lonely people, which reminded me of a title of one of Saul Bellow’s novels: More Die of Heartbreak:

Heartbreak

Hurts, but it’s familiar
and thus comfortable
and well-known by fans
of the Red Sox (or the Mets
or the Cubs) and by single
gals who spend weekends
with a crossword puzzle
and a cat --
and the legions
of those still waiting
for a lucky break.

You want to know
who has it? At your
next gathering, don’t
look at the spoilsport
sulking in the corner.
Look at the guy
telling jokes in the
center of the room.



Aunt Shecky
All rights reserved.

[TheFifthElement]

Aunt Shecky this is so true. The loneliest person is always the one at the centre of attention. An excellent poem (but tiny it is not!).

[ampoule]

Yes, you should have started a thread...very huge poems. I get it. I like it.

[AuntShecky]

[QUOTE=TheFifthElement;446368[/(but tiny it is not!).[/QUOTE]

Too long?
You have to admit
the lines themselves
are short.

About the only
thing I have
in common
with Dr.
William
Carlos
Williams--

teeny
tiny
lines!

(Have to get off the computer now! Hope to see you all tomorrow. I LOVE this site!)

[AuntShecky]

Ex Libris

They’re all pals o’ mine:
Janie Austen, Nate
Hawthorne, Larry Sterne.

Personal friends,
Best buds
Across centuries.

You know how you’d be
reading their text
messages and all of
a sudden they say:
“Dear Reader”?

Well --
that’s me.



Aunt Shecky
All rights reserved.

[SleepyWitch]

I've never done this before. here goes:

In the economy of tacit favours
I can never pay you back.
For every undeserved smile
I'll raise a private army
to stand ready till the day
this simmering world
makes up its mind
to drown