Short Flash Forward Poems

flash forward 
to the future 
where everything
is settled down 
a flow will eventually 
be created 
within the new 
version of 
reality within 
the new realm 
of clarity that 
the future version
of self will dwell 
within 
when this present 
moment has faded 
out of view...

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All of these broken half eaten crayons 
walls decorated with mindless nibbles; 
Haul out the past of the remodeled house  
recall a time of free spirited scribbles;  

Trash,  treasure that was left to fade 
crash erased such carefree lines; 
Cash left a masterpiece in rubble 
flash forward nothing left that shines....

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I opened the package.
Another one from mom.

Neath all the wreckage
her handwriting still beckons some.

Was framed with two pics
first was nineteen sixty five.

Seven parents, thirteen kids all
(the eighth parent took the pic).

Flash forward forty years.
Now the second pic.

Six parents (one dead the other divorced)
thirteen kids all came together

in celebration
and grieving, framed for all time beautifully....

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