Kim Rodrigues Poet Free verse

Memory Triggered By a Purple Pencil

MEMORY TRIGGERED BY A PURPLE PENCIL
A reponse to Caren Krutsinger’s Pay the Purple Pencil Penalty Please

sick
in bed
not now
then

daddy
worked for
i.b.m.

simpler times
not now
but
then

to soothe
my pain
dad
brought home
a
glitzy pen

decorations
that lit
up
my eyes

danced me
back
to health

poet
in me
perked up,
colors

could have been
kaleidoscopically
whirling ~
a
mirror ball
treasure,

rainbow crystals
glittering
on the ceiling,
tactile

a friend
reminded me
today
of
this simple
gesture

love
accepts
a pen
or purple
pencil

and doesn’t play dead

you
seem “floored”

as you
look up
at the “pirate queen”

she sees the scintilla of your eyelids
peers
into the opening ~
she’s 
no
fool

you burst out
laughing

7/5/2020

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Gershon Wolf August 5, 2020 at 7:22 PM A really fun romp, Kim! Enjoyed it, as I immediately identified with everything about it... My Dad used to bring me bullets from the Civil War --- and I threw them away!! Oh, no!! ... Along with all my Mickey Mantle rookie cards... C'est la vie! :) gw Kim Rodrigues August 5, 2020 at 7:25 PM Sentiments often thrown away and until our memories disappear we hold them dearly. We had a kid spend the week and months later my husband realized he stole cards from us. By then there was nothing we could do. Thank you, my great friend!

Caren Krutsinger August 5, 2020 at 11:18 AM I love this! Feeling honored that my little poem inspired this masterpiece. This is going into my faves. Kim Rodrigues August 5, 2020 at 4:10 PM Awesome! So glad!

Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart August 5, 2020 at 4:35 AM *~ W O N D E R F U L ~* Kim Rodrigues August 5, 2020 at 4:43 AM Thanks, Pigeon! I love Caren’s freewheeling whimsical writes! :)