Feels Like a Lifetime Ago

FEELS LIKE A LIFETIME AGO

                     January feels like a lifetime ago,
breathing freely in a hearty party atmosphere.
The wheels on the van go round and round.

A storm loomed and we stood on Psalm 91.
The storm couldn’t reach where God’s hand breathed.

The wheels on the van go round and round
and our family goes up and down in reverie.
Oh how God blessed us with a solid gold watch.

Extended family joined us - my parents’ siblings,
the youngest with their spouses. And the doors
open and shut...open and shut. Shuttled to downtown,

my brother-in-law at the helm. Nobody wore masks,
nobody was sick, nobody needed operations.

Smooth operator, our Lord, who planned this folly,*
this tralala adventure — his peace and safety parlayed.

We blast music from the fifties, sixties, seventies.
Up, up we go from dynastic overflow, generational
happiness in our strobing blue jamboree — guilt-free.

Celebration of two great people — defined by hips,
superglued twins from different mothers. Children
of forever after happiness. Blissfulness before March.

The ants go marching on the calendar screen, right
away we can’t breathe, thankfully not covid. The ants
               weave in and out, revolving hospital doors, 

pass through, separate, and go home — the square dance
for cool kids, not so cool. Wannabee ankle-biters** - cruel.

In the bus we bust a gut**...months later Dad busts a chest.
Dosido here we go...mom and dad take turns, for the best -
     we hope!

8/18/2020

Popular songs: Wheels on the Bus, Ants Go Marching
Bible, Psalm 91 is about protection
Some square dance lingo used in this poem - such as
pass through, separate and go home, dosido

*folly here is meant to mean to mean celebratory fun
**ankle-biters are children
***bust a gut - laughing

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Date: 8/19/2020 3:22:00 AM
Very creaive. Fun times ...
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Kim Rodrigues
Date: 8/19/2020 4:53:00 AM
Thank you, my friend!
Date: 8/18/2020 5:07:00 PM
Thanks for the reprise of a wild ride on the Moody Blues bus, Kim. Great write. Thanks, Gershon
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Kim Rodrigues
Date: 8/18/2020 6:08:00 PM
LOL, you make me laugh which is good during troubled times.
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