Constance La France Poet Free verse

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Poetry/Free Verse/my grandma's disremembered stories
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Written, August 01, 2025/AI Free
For the International Contest, Go Fish - A Book Prize
Sponsor, Suzette Richards, Judge 08/30/2025

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my grandma's disremembered stories

grandma, the family storyteller
in old age would forget
so her stories changed with the retelling
but an essence of truth remained
her voice echoes in my heart

was each story semantic to grandma
new in ambiguity to her
with random memories merging

I am the storyteller now
looking into the calm reflective waters of time
seeking recollected memories that echo 

my words specular with reflected words
I am that girl at the kitchen table
listening to her musical voice impacting me
I wonder did she realize her life ending
did she want to give me her gift

I often escape into her fugue of melodic telling
her unexpected memory with all the beautiful failures

that perhaps only I who wished to be like her
who knew her stories told over years would grasp

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David Crandall August 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM touching recollection of you grandma's recollections. Constance La France August 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM David, thank you for the compliment, and comment, appreciate o much, blessings ~