Poetry Friday - Remembering

         Thanks to Heidi Mordhorst who is hosting this Poetry Friday, at her blog, My Juicy Little Universe here. with her favorite typo! (Go visit to find out what!)  

Remembering

I wrote a long text intro

separated by the happy

and the sad, all memories

of September, all the years

gone, 2021 to be lived

and again, remembered.

Then, I mixed it and 

poured it out condensed.

Twenty years ago:

first grandchild,

daughter’s wedding planned,

class trip to Costa Rica,

slammed into 9/11.

That day of school remembered

with heartbreak, with students

who didn't need that worry?

For me, a dear Grandma’s birthday.

I remember, I remember,

and now all will remember this September

ending the war whose seeds sprouted

that September.

This Saturday, eight years ago,

my husband died,

a sunny day readying for fall

but he couldn’t stay.

Now I sing an old song

“Try To Remember”

with somber shades

overlaid by sweet memories.

We can’t forget.

We don’t want to remember,

yet still do

“When life was slow and oh, so mellow."
                                Linda Baie ©

Thanks to Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt for a special song, "Try to Remember"!  You can listen to the song HERE.

I feel a need to write that I am aware that life is not always great for everyone no matter the year, but for me in many early years, good memories.