Monday, June 13, 2011

Monday Morning Challenge: Keepsakes

Good Morning.  Your challenge if you wish to accept it shall be that of which aging is made of.  Go back in your time capsule and find your very first good memory.  Okay, lock in on it and write.  This time there are no rules.  No mandatory forms either.  Just write whatever you can remember about the very first happy moment you ever experienced.

Now this challenge was easy to come up with but might not be as simple to create.  Hopefully it will leave you with a smile or at least a happy tear.

Have fun and go write!

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2 comments:

  1. "Dearest Sister"

    Of only three and plainly in need
    For attention was a calming blessing
    That I was forever lacking

    She was only fourteen but never
    Did she act the age she had lived

    Her smile and love cover me so
    And left the longing to being alone

    Her goodnights were always amazing
    Her smile and voice so sweet

    Dear sister you managed to supplement
    A mother that was in desperate want of help

    Though you never know, the night that
    I knew you loved me beyond the ties
    That bond us forever and more

    Was as simple as a pretzel to a quench
    A quite hunger but oh how I saw it beyond that moment

    Your Angel face shall never leave my heart
    Nor shall our love ever part

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  2. Baby Brother Comes--
    Memory from 12-03-1954
    Written 6-12-2011

    I was three.
    Daddy played with me.
    I watched him vaccuum the rug,
    something I don't remember his doing
    in the intervening fifty-seven years.

    Mommy had been gone a few days,
    and I missed her.
    She came home with a bundle.
    My dad had told me she was bringing
    home a baby brother to play with me.

    I tossed the bright rubber ball
    into the baby bassinette.
    No ball came back to me.
    Disappointed, I had to wait to play
    with my brother, but he was worth it.

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