Reason A. Poteet Poet Quatrain

Funeral

“The US First Cavalry arrived in Manila on February 3, 1945; it proceeded to Santo Tomas University north of the Pasig River, where 3,785 Allied civilian prisoners of war had been kept for over three years” 
from internet article: Liberation of the Philippines 1945


 Twelve years in a Chinese mission
 followed by three years in prison
 with over three thousand others,
 me, mom, four sisters, two brothers.

 Daddy had been killed in Hong Kong;
 a fact we didn’t know for too long.
 Funereal time: nightmarish
 February 3, (1945) we cherish.

 Back in America, time passed;
 Mom ran an orphanage at last;
 Her kids, her finest residents;
 seven lives, the best evidence.

 Some seventy-eight years later
 back home now with my Creator
 Funeral time: celebration
 February 3, (2023); it's done.

written: February 17, 2023

Sponsor	Constance La France
Contest Name	Writing Challenge -F Words

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Paula Goldsmith February 22, 2023 at 12:29 PM Congratulations on your win. WOW!!!  What a lovely yet sad write/story. Very sorry for your loss. Have a great/blessed day writing away............................

Kim Rodrigues February 21, 2023 at 5:01 PM Congratulations! Interesting. All of these stories need to be told…people to be remembered. Sorry for your loss.

Sara Kendrick February 21, 2023 at 8:00 AM Congratulations on this winner in Constance's contest. Way to go. Interesting information. Sara Reason A. Poteet February 21, 2023 at 8:29 AM thank you Sara. I didn't know my Sara's mother but she must have been some lady to have survived life's challenges. She was a Canadian, but settled in our small city in Indiana which had just opened an orphanage at the right time. God's timing is perfect.

Constance La France February 21, 2023 at 2:33 AM Reason, an emotional poem and congratulations on your win in my Writing Challenge F Words, well done, I like the quote also, blessings, Constance Reason A. Poteet February 21, 2023 at 8:24 AM thanks, Constance, Sara became nurse/teacher in dealing with diabetes. After retirement, she tutored primary age children in reading and math at the school where my grandchildren attended. Never a dull moment when she was around.

Linda Alice Fowler February 20, 2023 at 6:11 PM Sad story with a happier ending Reason. Congratulations on your win! :) Reason A. Poteet February 20, 2023 at 6:25 PM Thanks, Linda. Sara was a good friend who had many stories to tell. She lost the hearing in her left ear when she crawled under a fence and stole food from the overseers' garbage can. He hit her hard.