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Best Poems Written by Gigi Thrasher

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Generational Banana Love

My love affair with bananas
 must have started shortly after my birth
 because it seems to be a generational thing. 
    
 My daughter spit out every Gerber-strained
 fruit that was not bananas, just like 
 Grandma did in the end.

 They dribbled down her chin but I was not
 embarrassed. The only time bananas embarrassed me
 was in my high school sex ed class

 when Mrs. Wiley showed us things 
 I was certain my mother 
 didn’t want me to know. 

 She never would have looked 
  at a banana the same. I never looked
   at Mrs. Wiley the same, that’s for sure. 

 Bananas go from generation to generation, 
  except when you use them 
  and generations just... die.

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5 Decades, a Dozen Lifetimes

Born into an ordinary, churchgoing family
No one expected Satan to reign supreme
Relapse and rehab and sobriety chips
Postpartum vacations in the psych ward’s west wing
Three decades of life, aged twice as much
Finally lulled into domestic bliss
The wild can never truly be tamed
Excitement and fire I missed
Turned my passion of life toward writing instead
Cause 50 years old is too young to be dead


Sponsor: Silent One
Contest: Story of My Life in Ten Lines
Date: 9/30/19

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The Bride In the Photograph

There’d been no warning, no call;
it caught me completely by surprise.
When I opened the paper
and turned to page three, I saw
the bride in the photograph
next to a man that shouldn’t have been free.

We’d broken up before but
we’d always found our way back.
True love would prevail
and one day I’d be
the bride in the photograph
with his arms around me.

I crumpled up the paper,
then opened it up again.
I couldn’t stop staring at
the bride in the photograph
and all I could think was
it should have been me.

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Cast a Long Shadow

Cast a Long Shadow

I used to fear those shadows that lurked underneath my bed,
following my every footstep and filling me with dread.

I hated the darkness that trailed every move I ever made.
It was there when I tried to outrun it; it was there even when I stayed.

As I became an adult, the shadows remained; they even invaded my mind.
Past-due bills and heartaches; there was little but darkness to find.

But there was always one shadow that made life seem so carefree.
It matched my every step until the day I turned thirty-three.

When we laid Grandpa to rest on the day of my birth
The sun cast a fitting shadow as he was lowered into the earth.

Just like before, that shadow filled me with calm and ease,
the only time the darkness didn’t bring me to my knees.

The shadows of my time are now nearing their end;
I’m facing the biggest darkness of all; a refracted light that cannot bend.

I know my departure will cast a long shadow on those I leave behind.
They, too, will struggle with darkness as it permeates each mind.

But my arrival Above will be welcomed with Grandpa leading the crowd 
and we will all stroll together where shadows aren’t allowed.

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An Unconventional Marriage

Jan and Nan were not just twins but best friends,
so when Stan got down on one knee, he got
not one, but two, to say “I do.” Some thought
him blessed; some found it strange, but Stan thought he
got a good deal: two for the price of one.
Til the day Ole Stan made one wife cry and
met the wrath of two. Jan and Nan said Stan
ran. But no one could ever be sure. The truth
is, though, that Stan did could not leave town ‘cause
he lies deep in the ground by the old cow
barn where the twins milk the cows each day. They
tell them to be strong and not take any bull,
then they smile and go in and leave the cows
to trod on top of Stan, who got his due.

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Sunset Advice

Sunset Advice

The sun was setting
in the small coastal town.
The advice he was getting
he wouldn't turn down.
"Ask her here, where Earth's arms open wide;
I promise she'll say yes and make a beautiful bride."



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9/30/19

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Alone In a Crowd Six

Laughing, merriment, inklings of joy
permeate as if by sonic blast...

I stand in the midst with a cold vacant hole
where happiness once lived unabated...

The ball drops, confetti flies, it's all mixed in
with the shattered pieces of my heart....

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Town Children

Behind pink and green shutters
of the bright coastal town
live the children of Banzini,
at least the ones still around.

In 2011,
a hurricane blew through;
it left behind a sea monster
with a vengeance to tend to.

A prized fisherman who once
called Banzini his home
had captured and destroyed
the only mother he had known.

So, he cursed the families of
Banzini, every last one;
their children would disintegrate
if their eyes met the sun

Behind the bright shutters
where only darkness resides
are the children of Banzini
stuck forever inside.

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Middle-Age Musings

You Tube fame,
reality
stars who
infamously
infiltrate our youth
and promote
success
for being
nothing
more than shrewd
salespeople
who market one thing:
themselves, anger me ‘cause
I
was born just too soon.


9-29-19