Home of My Childhood

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my mind takes me back through the tattered pages of my life
                        to a place of warmth, security and love . . . . .
    
   to my mother's kitchen with its big cupboards and old stove
and a blue teapot on the kitchen table and grandma telling me of life
                                  of people in the family long dead . . .

it was at that same table that I read my first poems while sipping tea
     oh!  I recall father shovelling snow in winter all bundled up

and a warm fireplace waiting within . . .
                       then at night in an attic room this little girl was tucked in

                with forever loving hands, hugs and kisses . . .  .

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January 24, 2015

Poetry/Free Verse/home of my childhood
Copyright Protected, ID 01-635-607-24
All Rights Reserved, 2015, Constance La France

Entered in the Standard contest, Home Sweet Home
sponsor Skat , Judged 02/2015

Third Place
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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Kendrick Avatar
May 26, 2015 at 1:30 PM
Lovingly descriptive of a home sweet home..Enjoyed reading this winner..Congrats..Sara
Ebbs Avatar
May 23, 2015 at 8:13 AM
A sanctuary...congrats on on your win and a place of comfort. :)
A   Avatar
May 23, 2015 at 1:20 AM
BROKEN, Nice win...... LINDA
Dietrich Avatar
May 20, 2015 at 8:20 PM
Amazing as always, Constance, a VERY big congrats for this win.
A  Avatar
May 20, 2015 at 7:04 PM
Broken, CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR WIN. Enjoyed your Home Sweet Home Entry. Thank you for supporting my contest. ~~SKAT LOVE~~
Cooper Avatar
January 26, 2015 at 1:11 PM
A beautiful rememberance, a gentle well crated poem. It brings back my memories of home when i was a child. Thank you. i have put it in my favourites.
Richards Avatar
January 25, 2015 at 10:07 AM
I feel I have paid visit to that place of your dreams. I often visit one very similar, and it makes me long to have just one more day there to spend. "IF ONLY"... ahhhhh.......
Johnson-Saunders Avatar
January 25, 2015 at 3:46 AM
Sweet memories of home...the imagery brings to mind a Norman Rockwell painting. Simply lovely...hugs, Rhonda
D. Avatar
January 25, 2015 at 3:41 AM
very touching poem that expresses the emotion perfectly. good luck in contest
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