Days like These...

Cherry

By Silver Spun Sand

Mon, 12 Jul 2010
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‘The Chaos Theory’ personified –
you and your room, when you left
this morning; violin case tucked
under one arm, school tie in disarray,
in your bid to be somewhere yesterday,
or rather, your Grade Six exam...

Gaze in utter disbelief; mountains
of grubby clothes. Stacks of half-drunk
mugs of tea, therein, a totally ‘new to me’
species of plant life, thriving and seemingly
doing well, plus the odd, partially sucked
cola drop, stuck fast to the waste-bin.

I begin to sift through the debris – glance
at the clock. You’ll be playing your Mozart
piece by now. Cross my fingers and my toes;
stare out of the window. Quite by chance,
drifts on by, an arpeggio of butterflies...

And then, from underneath your bed,
two odd socks I’d been searching high
and low for, wink at me. On my hands
and knees, pray it’s true what they say,
‘Good luck comes in threes’, and some.

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Submitted by Highhat on
a very kind Mother poem ;) Thank you xx Pia

Submitted by Silver Spun Sand on
Thanks, Pia...it's exactly what my other half said when I read it to him this morning;-) Glad you enjoyed too. Tina xx

 

Submitted by kheldar on
Wanna come round and tidy up after me? Seriously though a great capture of a mother's methods of coping with nervousness over their kids. david xxx

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Submitted by Silver Spun Sand on
Depends how untidy you are, I guess;-) Seriously though, David - as usual, you have it in a nutshell. tina xxxx

 

Submitted by Cavalcader on
new Silver-Spun-Sand Well earn't cherry! Stanza I like is and then,from underneath your bed two odd socks I'd been searching high and low for,wink at me.On my hands and knees,pray it's true what they say, 'Good luck comes in threes', I started comment earlier had to go out. Is it the quickest one you have ever received julie xx

Submitted by Silver Spun Sand on
Hi there Julie;-) I guess every mum can identify with the 'odd sock syndrome' and the answer to your last question is probably;-) Hope you are well. Great to hear from you, as ever, as always. Tina xx

 

Submitted by Cavalcader on
new Silver-Spun-Sand Thankyou comment reply back I missed word cherry! out for the quickest. As looked and read it early,then went back on comment. Well very hot ben walking a lot,watching bands and groups and young acrobating,to music,four places in Brighton, and singers, and Pavilion Clarinet player,old songs I stood humming,loads taking photos such a beautiful building and our daughter got m there. So much happening, thank goodness,while he is out,bowls,snooker etc; I was put out he could do all this. So I am joining other things,why wait? maybe Gospel songs one night practice. Yes very hazy weather. Some new people back,leave lights on 2a.m.So I crept round 3 houses no curtains sign of the times, so had to put thicker curtain over window.Oh! whenever I did washing always rows socks never matched up lost. I was thinking your lovely poem was your daughter, I see I am wrong sorry.Good to here from you. "Kheldar" help Crocodile-Tears not in big issue yet? 3 weeks and thankyou to Editor tCook Tony and The Bill x Chris Ellison in.Big issue young man says could depend on topic I think. And he did lovely coloured sketch of Bengali Cat like photo and put it on t shirt very clever just shows you. So mine sent text now I can't do,still not in yet? Hope your well.It comes up on AbcTales sometimes,Unauthorized comment,but found out means,got log in again. It was of putting to me thinking! what had I done.Have a good week-end are you sun tanning. My skin so white takes long time. What's name of white small flower bell shaped,purple edged light green inside golden stamens,is it Celandine,long thin stalks I bouth some £1 stalk good got three and three dusty pink roses cost same cheap. julie xx

Submitted by MistakenMagic on
'a totally ‘new to me’ species of plant life, thriving and seemingly doing well' - laughed out loud of these lines, Tina! I myself am a teenager guilty of fostering new species in their room so this was great to read ;) Well done on the cherry ;) Magic xxx

 

Submitted by Silver Spun Sand on
Glad I brought a smile to your lips, Magic. This poem was actually modelled on my granddaughter who is UNBELIEVABLY untidy;-) Thanks so much for taking time out to read this in a busy week;-) Tina xxx

 

Submitted by rjnewlyn on
Happy memories - I wish I could get as untidy as that but am no longer allowed to. I liked the image of a drop of coke in the bin - very true. I'd only heard the 'comes in three' for bad things (someone I know always breathes a sigh of relief when the third bad thing has happened that day). Rob

 

Submitted by Silver Spun Sand on
Hi there, Rob. Glad it evoked some nice memories for you. Thanks for reading and for letting me know you enjoyed;-) Tina