Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Those Childhood Dreams (Mindlovemisery poetry prompt #15 Childhood Dreams)



Those Childhood Dreams
By           
Lisa A.Williams
                 

Ask me-
of her dreams

Little girl with eyes like mom
Tears like dad, seldom shed

Ask me
what she wished way back when
the world was small and she still
didn’t fit in

Ask me
What she wanted to be
other than accepted by
the cold blue stare
like hers, not like hers

For she always sought
 the warmth
 the embrace


Ask me
and I will tell you
how she still wishes
her father didn’t die

Her mother wasn’t forever lost-
A ghostlike image lingering
in faded photographs
which never showed the true color
of her eyes

 Ask me
if she still dreams-
Always

10 comments:

  1. Awwww Lisa this breaks my heart, powerful, heart-wrenching, you are truly gifted with words (hugs)

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    1. Thank you so much! I have really enjoyed working with your prompts, they give inspiration and a nice push to come up with something.

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  2. Heart wrenching piece, Lisa. Very beautifully penned.

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  3. I think the dreams we had as a young person continue to live in us for our whole lives. We continue to search for what we wanted so much back then.

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  4. heartbreaking poem.

    Her mother wasn’t forever lost-
    A ghostlike image lingering
    in faded photographs
    which never showed the true color
    of her eyes

    the imagery is haunting

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  5. Lisa, your description of her eyes... I hope to God this is NOT autobiographical. That would be tragic.

    A touching poem filled with bitter memories. Very good write, my dear. Amy

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  6. So, so felt. Great writing in the most heartbreaking of ways. I hope she dreams on to one day find them fulfilled.

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  7. Very evocative. Nicely written...especially liked " faded photographs
    which never showed the true color
    of her eyes"

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  8. Beautiful writing, sad but not without hope!

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