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Misjudged - For a Long Ago Friend

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My Westward View from my Pleasant Grove,UT (Utah Lake)/ Eastward view : the mountains

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The Flag and the Sea Gull Memorial in Salt Lake:

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our junior high dance middle class white kids rock out to Born to be Wild girls sitting pretty standing and doing nothing . . . the wall flower guys the music softens I only Have Eyes for You enhances my angst the boy I adore rooted with the wall flowers has started to move crossing the gym floor the boy I like is asking the new girl to dance she looks like a snob I hate this beautiful girl immediately somehow I end up walking home with this new girl serendipity laughing and chatting we have so much in common fast friends we become (A true story told with 5/7/5 line verses)

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Ralph Sergi

Date: 7/28/2015 7:40:00 AM

Hi Andrea: Sometimes good things occur from bad things. I really enjoyed your poem.

Dr. Upma A. Sharma

Date: 7/28/2015 12:36:00 AM

Lovely string of senryus Andrea! Congrats on fine win!

Thomas Martin

Date: 7/26/2015 11:57:00 AM

Interesting haiku sequence,Andrea! Glad to visit you again, have been sick and struggling withcomputer problems! Btw, 21 degrees of Leo born, moon in gemini, sagittitarius rising and all the personal planets in virgo! That's why do not seem very leonine.

Jennifer Walker

Date: 7/25/2015 10:17:00 PM

Can't write can I, I meant to say, Can't figure out who this poem is about.

Jennifer Walker

Date: 7/25/2015 10:16:00 PM

Love that you can take a poem and have it be true to life. Can't figure out this is though.

Debbie Duncan

Date: 7/25/2015 6:33:00 PM

This tells a great story, people getting upset with me over some slight they think I did. So did you win with this too :) Thanks for liking my CINNABONS :) xx

James Fraser

Date: 7/25/2015 12:28:00 PM

Yep, life twists are wonderful sometimes Andrea. Nice one Utah Babe, hugs, wishing you a lovely weekend, James :) :)

Alexis Y.

Date: 7/24/2015 10:55:00 PM

Hi Andrea, I'm wondering if I should just say congratulations when I read your skillful writes? Congratulations on a well deserved win:-)Alexi

Skat A

Date: 7/24/2015 4:51:00 PM

WOW,,,, ANDREA, congratulations, awesome senryu. SKAT LOVE

Eve Roper

Date: 7/24/2015 11:37:00 AM

Congratulations on your win a seven. Hugs Eve

Kp Nunez

Date: 7/24/2015 10:33:00 AM

Back to congratulate you, Andie!

Jan Allison

Date: 7/24/2015 8:30:00 AM

Dropping back with my congratulations Andrea:-) hugs jan xx

Olive Eloisa Guillermo - Fraser

Date: 7/23/2015 10:45:00 PM

Andie, strings of senryu wow!!! short phrases but knitted well to deliver the pictures!!! Hey, I like the them of your contest :D it made me really smile when I read it!!! Hope I can find my muse for short sweeeeeets!!! hahaha ~Olive Eloisa =')

Emile Pinet

Date: 7/23/2015 7:27:00 PM

You managed to nicely capture the suffrage of young passionate love in this poem, creating the ambiance of the moment well. Emile.

Laura Leiser

Date: 7/23/2015 2:27:00 PM

Ah, yes, this brings me back to junior high days! The emotions, the angst, the peer pressure. So glad you ended up being friends with that beautiful girl...shows your strength of character, even at that young age :) Great poem!

Kelly Deschler

Date: 7/23/2015 1:37:00 PM

You never really know someone until you know them... I became friends with a girl who used to be mean to me in school... I like the simplicity of this poem and the twist to the ending. Very nicely done, Andrea!... Thanks so much for your kind comments :)

Afolabi Muideen

Date: 7/23/2015 11:07:00 AM

A beautiful story here, it is well expressed. Thanks for your last visit to my page, when I read it I burst into laughter...............A.M.

Matthew Anish

Date: 7/23/2015 10:27:00 AM

I once went to a Jewish dance looking for a girlfriend and found a new male friend Your poem bears re - reading. What do you think of my Woodstock poem. Peace & Love Matthew Anish

Connie Marcum Wong

Date: 7/23/2015 1:11:00 AM

Emotions run so high when we are in our teens. You never know what someone is like until you get to know them. Glad you made friends with her. I was that new girl and my best friend got mad at me because her new guy asked me to dance. Wooh the troubles that a guy can cause between friends! I really enjoyed your poem and returning briefly to my youth. 7

Ravi Sathasivam

Date: 7/23/2015 1:10:00 AM

Beautiful good old memories. Enjoyed reading it. TFS

Tim Smith

Date: 7/22/2015 3:48:00 PM

We can easily become jealous. Glad you got to know her.

Daver Austin

Date: 7/22/2015 2:54:00 PM

Sad aint it. In junior high I was very fat - a wall flower. This girl named Donna was also fat. We were both wall flowers. I really do believe we both thought we were too good looking to settle for dancing with each other. Aaaarrrrgggghhhhh! Aint kids nuts. Love, daver

Wilma Neels

Date: 7/22/2015 9:22:00 AM

I enjoyed your gem Andrea, lovely memories that's for sure :) Hope your week has been a good one.. Over here I am wishing it was Summer already lol

Constance La France

Date: 7/22/2015 8:27:00 AM

Andrea, I remember those school dances with everyone afraid to make a move and high school where friends are made and lost in a moment , a dancing 7 and thanks for visiting my senryu 13, animal abuse, and you are so right it is not just the animals, but children and women and even men who suffer abuse

Viv Wigley

Date: 7/22/2015 6:54:00 AM

I just love a happy ending, and I know that sometimes girls and parties don't mix. Great little string of Senryu, Andrea. Viv x