Landscape of My Life

by NightFlyer   Jul 17, 2008


Landscape of My Life

Fall River, Massachusetts, late 1950's
With its double green church spires oxidized into this child's horizon
Memories left in graves, freshly dug with offerings of stone.

Rides through long dead avenues
New Bedford salty air, or was it Babes in Toyland?

Pizza shack crowds and soda pop fireworks
The gentle hills of childhood rolling past in sheltered cars
A world untouched by LSD.

Acushnet Beach by moonlight
The brown waters flowing like the Nile.

Fairhaven, down by the bridge
With its grassy meadow forts, guarding nothing but ghosts.

Like Grandfather's store in smiling postcards
My childhood waving goodbye forever.

The landscape of my life
Mattapoisett Bay, in depths of freedom
And Buttonwood Park, running lost amid its trees
Now just a space in my dreams.

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  • 15 years ago

    by NightFlyer

    Thank you, Ignoris. Glad you liked and could relate to my poem!

  • 15 years ago

    by Ignoris

    Well...good work, but it made me sad...ha, not in a bad way though, don't worry, but it's almost bittersweet I guess you could say. It's nice to look back on things and good memories, but then you just kind of stop, get yourself back to the present and say 'man, I wish I could go back to that time and place'...nice poem.
    Keep writing!
    Take care,
    Ignoris

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