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His Old Clothes

decide … phone people … arrangements need made … cannot pick … call who … where … when … oh, casket … My world just stray-shattered fully dismayed and pain’s pall stretch-burns me like thin plastic. Blue morning just took Dad … Hued my fragile blunt-sad. My brain’s left its launch pad; no thoughts compose. Tears full oppose planning-time throes. Now at Dad’s home, where his feel has not strayed, my known hangs dreadful on vague creased tragic. Whisper-feels of his old clothes hang scent-clad … for my grief's nose. ... CayCay Jennings June 5, 2018

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Richard Lamoureux

Date: 7/1/2018 1:55:00 AM

CongrTs on your win with this excellent piece.

Connie Marcum Wong

Date: 6/26/2018 6:52:00 PM

Congratulations on your win with this poignant piece CayCay. xxoo

Susan Gentry

Date: 6/25/2018 6:10:00 PM

Congratulations on your win with this sad, heartfelt story told in a poem. Well done!

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 6/24/2018 3:14:00 PM

You really conveyed the sadness here, Caycay, and all the other emotions during this time of your life. Loved how you took a life event and wrote on it with BW's inspiring theme. Congratulations, dear.

Constance La France

Date: 6/24/2018 7:03:00 AM

CayCay, congratulations on your win in my contest with this impressive write, well done ~

Faraz Ajmal

Date: 6/23/2018 2:29:00 PM

Many congratulations on your well deserved win in the contest, it was a really difficult one yet you have done a really nice job and this poem indeed is a beauty and a joy to read, good luck

Line Gauthier

Date: 6/23/2018 2:21:00 PM

Wow, what a beautiful heartfelt poem. Well done, CayCay.

Reason A. Poteet

Date: 6/23/2018 12:27:00 PM

Fragile subject, just went through an unexpected family death last week. You did it well, love the scattered thoughts brought together in to this piece. Congratulations on your write and the award.

Eve Roper

Date: 6/9/2018 8:26:00 PM

CayCay great weaving of words to paint a verse..Good luck in the contest .hugs eve

Lyric Man

Date: 6/8/2018 5:39:00 AM

You have a gift.. you don't simply tell a story, you feel it. You write in such a way that the reader feel it too!!

CayCay Jennings
Date: 6/8/2018 9:55:00 PM

I am blessed by your comments; they are the gift in this scenario and I thank you more than bunches for such generosity. Your words have validated my insecure places and, further, they flared my contentment-fulfilled level in the best way. Again, Chance, thank you and take good care of your joy ... CayCay

Charlie Smith

Date: 6/6/2018 12:30:00 PM

Somehow that scent never leaves, well done CayCay...

CayCay Jennings
Date: 6/6/2018 4:21:00 PM

I was recently in an elevator with a stranger who was wearing Old Spice and it was all I could do not to hug him and/or cry! It's good to see you, Charlie - always a pleasure. Thank you for commenting and, please, take good care. All the best ... CayCay

John Gondolf

Date: 6/6/2018 9:07:00 AM

Nicely written, CayCay, constructed very well for BW's contest. Best of luck. John

CayCay Jennings
Date: 6/6/2018 4:19:00 PM

There's the face! Good to hear from you. I'm still having time restraints that disallow reading and writing on Soup as I would like. Miss reading you, really I do - always enjoy doing so. You take care. Poetry hugs ... CayCay

Tom Cunningham

Date: 6/5/2018 9:57:00 PM

A powerful emotional verse CayCay, many of us have been down that sad road.

CayCay Jennings
Date: 6/6/2018 4:17:00 PM

Yes, many of us are blessed to have loved a Father, known the joy of that love and the pain of losing it in the material world. 20 years for me now and still certain songs, scents, oh - a list, can grab me and shake the grief to my surface. Thanks, Tom, for your consistency on Soup - your comments have depth and substance that I greatly appreciate. Poetry hugs ... CayCay

Sunlite Wanter

Date: 6/5/2018 6:01:00 PM

You have dared to write emotions that will creep into so many remembrances, like my Daddy's straw hats.

CayCay Jennings
Date: 6/6/2018 4:14:00 PM

All who have lost their Dad can probably relate to this poem and your comment. I've still got my Mama and at 81 it's clear she's very much still got it going on - a blessing. Thank you so much for commenting, I sure appreciate it and you. All the best ... CayCay