Seamless Patches - 1,9,16
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For some reason Viv's line number "one" triggered my memory of the opening lines of the poem "LITTLE BOY BLUE". It was one of the early poems that whetted my appetite for the poetic expression of so much in such simple expression.
‘Sewing machine, long idle, gathered dust’
frozen in stitch by a “toy soldiers rust.”*
Time remembers the scent of his hair,
the fold of the clothes as she left them there.
He was sampling youth when the bugle blew
a boy knowing nothing he thought he knew
answered the call of a nation’s need
denying the truths that soldiers bleed.
‘The war years seemed like only yesterday’
as he wandered, tattered, in disarray,
lost in the grip of a chevron’s cold stain
each breath sadly humming death’s cold refrain.
Threads of his life unraveled by peace
scent of fresh cloth, destroyed, out of reach
his life ebbed away, a flickering spark,
’The candle sputtered, spent, and all was dark’
©4/14/2018
*reference to poem “LITTLE BOY BLUE” by Eugene Field
submitted to – One nine and sixteen – Poetry Contest
sponsor – Viv Wigley
Copyright © John Lawless | Year Posted 2018
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