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Repossessing Reality

"recently scenes of early life have stolen into my mind, like breezes blown ..." Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge life the transient tree where we climbed, fell, grazed our knees flesh and blood debris stirs back up inside of me buried childhood memories Writing Challenge - Past Memories - ''T'' Forms Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Constance La France Tanka How many syllables 5/7/5/7/7 10/10/22

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Constance La France

Date: 11/12/2022 1:15:00 AM

David, wonderful Tanka and congratulations on your placement in my contest, Writing Challenge - Past Memories- "T" Forms, and of course I like the quote, well done !

David Kavanagh
Date: 11/12/2022 1:21:00 AM

Thank you Constance, I was delighted with your placement, and the thought provoking quote that evoked my tanka, cheers David

Sotto Poet

Date: 11/1/2022 7:34:00 AM

Congratulation on your contest win, David. I'm sure it's amply deserved with your great Tanka.

David Kavanagh
Date: 11/1/2022 9:22:00 AM

Thank you Lasaad, I’m always delighted with a placement, makes the effort more worthwhile, cheers David

Bill Baker

Date: 10/11/2022 4:12:00 PM

Nice Tanka for the contest, David. I can relate to it... many times. lol Have a great week, my friend. Bill

David Kavanagh
Date: 10/12/2022 6:11:00 AM

Thanks Bill, many ups and downs of early life, can come back to us as we get older, almost as if we’ve purposely reminded ourselves of them, without actually knowing why, is indeed my message here, good to hear from you, cheers David

Sally Eslinger

Date: 10/11/2022 9:29:00 AM

David! The actualizing of the imagery you present here IS powerful enough to “reposes a memory .” Then to now. I have Fav-Ed this

David Kavanagh
Date: 10/11/2022 10:38:00 AM

Heya Sally, thank you so much for understanding the message I’ve tried to portray of repossessing a perhaps lost or buried childhood memory, and I’m delighted with your fav, hope you’re having a relatively pain free day, cheers David

Michael Tor

Date: 10/10/2022 6:29:00 PM

Great memories expressed here David love the way you wrote this... Thanks for sharing...

David Kavanagh
Date: 10/11/2022 2:31:00 AM

Thank you Michael, a difficult form to get my message of early memories creeping back into my life, my family ones are good, but beyond them, some very difficult times, cheers David

Deb M

Date: 10/10/2022 3:49:00 PM

Simply beautiful David! Debx

David Kavanagh
Date: 10/11/2022 2:32:00 AM

Thank You Deb, quite simple on the surface but hopefully with a more profound message, cheers David

Tom Cunningham

Date: 10/10/2022 11:58:00 AM

It's a wonder we didn't get killed lol, All part of growing up I suppose. Tom

David Kavanagh
Date: 10/10/2022 12:46:00 PM

Yep I was lucky on more than one occasion Tom, but this one runs deeper about early life, and perhaps mental scars left behind, that can still surface sometimes, cheers David

Jenna Logan

Date: 10/10/2022 11:19:00 AM

I think you just unearthed them for a bit. I hope it wasn't too terribly painful, but if you recalled it, it must've been pretty bad. Boys and tree climbing...(rolling my eyes because I climbed my share of them)

David Kavanagh
Date: 10/10/2022 12:41:00 PM

The tree is more metaphoric of the general highs and lows of early life Jenna, was pretty tough at times, and they sometimes stir very strong emotions and questions within me, although I must admit I did fall from many trees, but when healed up went back climbing, cheers David