Boxes Set High

A chorus of boxes hums tonelessly on high rafters
where unwieldy boxed and stocked memory realms
squirm under drowsy dust just beyond my sight’s reach.

On my journey, family, romantic loves, places
and friends have deeply dipped me twisted 
then spun in bleary pieced feeling conditions
that time tossed dark-shelved from my vision.

But around does come moments of poignant grabs
that hoist me thru the dust to see a memory touch
and as I sit or lie with it, it seeps my depths inside of it.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2019



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Date: 12/17/2019 5:58:00 AM
I love this! Best wishes and congratulations on your Honorable Mention in Brian's contest, CayCay - keep the ink flowing, my friend! Blessings! :o) <3
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Date: 12/16/2019 3:04:00 PM
Congrats on your winning poem Cay Cay
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Date: 11/13/2019 6:47:00 PM
Marvelous write Cay Cay, you always have such unique phrasing, it was on full display with this write. Especially enjoyed the interspersed coincidental rhymes. What a treat!
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Date: 11/10/2019 3:01:00 PM
Hello Ca Cay, as i read this poem,I felt tha i was in the junkyard looking at all the items there. have a nice a nice day my friend.
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Date: 11/3/2019 8:06:00 AM
If I was a multiple placement judge this would be placed much higher but sadly for some I am not. Still, this is very much just as worthy as second place with 10 others and more so. Your poems are never "everyday" and always reach deeper emotions like your final 3 lines allude.
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Date: 11/2/2019 7:41:00 PM
Congratulations on your win. CayCay, in My Favorite Junkyard not a contest I wanted to enter and didn't. Hugs Eve
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Date: 11/2/2019 7:08:00 PM
this has your signature Caycay style I love so much!! Glad to see you got a placement worth something with Craig. I did not even try this contest. Congrats, my friend.
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Date: 11/2/2019 4:24:00 PM
back to say congratulations CayCay... hugs :)
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Date: 11/2/2019 4:06:00 PM
So glad to see this on the winners list sweet CayCay! Amazing poetry...x:)-luloo
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Date: 11/2/2019 10:58:00 AM
I was intrigued by the title and was equally satisfied by the poem. Well done Cay Cay. Hugs Rick.
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Date: 11/2/2019 9:57:00 AM
You almost make a junkyard sound neat lol...great entry my friend...best for a win Cay Cay...^WW^ :o)
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Date: 11/1/2019 8:28:00 PM
I like your words, the descriptions are different, expressive and well done.
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Date: 11/1/2019 4:22:00 PM
This is awesome poetry my friend..well beyond the bounds of ordinary, CayCay. I am saving as my FAVE.
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Date: 10/31/2019 8:56:00 PM
I love this CayCay...the boxes sit and gather dust, but sometimes we peek in those boxes and feel the pain or happiness... great write my sweet friend... hugs! :)
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Date: 10/31/2019 8:50:00 AM
Wow, she pops back in just to leave a jewel for us to find in this dusty cluttered poetic attic called Soup. Always a treasure when you write my friend.
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Date: 10/31/2019 7:05:00 AM
Yes, I often love to open up those boxes to relieve memories....to lie with the and forget the passage of time. Thanks for this nostalgic piece, dear.
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Date: 10/30/2019 9:13:00 PM
This is an amazing poem, CayCay. The images you've depicted are so familiar, so authentic, for who among us doesn't have these boxes put away and forgotten, unwieldy stacked, on some obscure shelf? And yet, the memories in them are so tender. The complexity of your phrasing, moreover, had me reading this several times, to glean all the meaning that I could from it. Bravo. Warmest wishes, Gershon
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