I was eighteen the summer That we thought it would all be over by the fall. We lived in Springfield and my father never tired of a story of a time he’d passed Abe Lincoln at the market ten years before.
When the war begun, As a girl, there was little I could could but smile in my Sunday best, waving as the boys I’d always known rode away in blue— even my Johnny.
He’d meant to marry me and told me that we’d have to do it quick So he knew that I would wait when he returned. And wait I did. For four long years.
I was twenty-two the day he came home. And yet, one look at him and I knew that nothing would ever be same.
All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them. -- Walt Disney
It was nineteen-hundred and three when I remembered the headline though I was only five that two brothers down in North Carolina had built a flying machine and gone up into the sky. I told my father that day that one day I’d learn to fly a machine of my own and he told me he’d love me no matter what.
But then I grew up and got married somewhere in between and for the most part I forgot my dream.
It was nineteen-hundred and twenty-three and I was twenty-five the first year I finally flew in someone else’s machine and I remember going up, up, up, there was nothing like it. And some part of me felt five again.
All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them. -- Walt Disney
We were happy once but that was a long time ago when we were young and still believed the world was good. I loved you in my own way and all I can think of now that you’re not here is all of the years we wasted.
All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them. -- Walt Disney
The art of forgetting is one that I have yet to master although I have yet to hear of anyone who has. Maybe I will be the first. The heartbreak of remembering is much too great and I do not know how I can live with it for the rest of my life.
once, You loved me and once, I was happy. If only happiness lasted forever.
All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them. -- Walt Disney
Early in the morning I heard the birds chirping. I got out of bed and felt the warmth on my skin.
The others were already awake And I could tell it was going to be a hot day. I felt my stomach make noises And helped myself to a three day old chocolate bar scavenged from the dumpster behind the Ralph’s.
I’d been unhappy at home so I left
Just like in the Beatles song. And I kept thinking, wondering, hoping that I made the right decision.
All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them. -- Walt Disney
They said that you and I were like a young prince and princess and I remember thinking that this hadn’t been the purpose of my life. I loved you, but then I was still figuring myself out.
I suppose a part of me thought that I could have it all — I could be strong and independent and a feminist but I could be in love with you and you me and we would live happily ever after.
and maybe I was naive to think that you’d want that for me too. me and you you and me — it’s all a blur now.
All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them. -- Walt Disney
I was barely old enough to know what things were like before. Though I had the vaguest memory most of what I knew was colored from the stories I heard from Mother and Father. For them at least, there was a sense of pride that we would never know the suffering that is all too real now.
In hindsight, I see we took it all for granted.
All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them. -- Walt Disney
I'm gunna put this in a spoiler so I don't make your thread look messy because it's all super neeeaaat~
I've been meaning to comment on your poems sometime soon but I always forget to, like the forgetful person I am.
But I've been reading them and they're all pretty awesome! Most of them tell stories, which I love so much, because whenever I read a poem, I always look for some backstory that ties in with it.
My favorites are probably Johnny is My Darling and Over There.
I was eight years old on that Sunday morning In December. I woke up to the sunlight through my windows And the smell of fried eggs on the stove — in other words, it was a day like any other.
That afternoon we listened to the President (the same one that had consoled Mom and Dad through many hard nights) tell us that we were going to war.
I didn’t know what to think. And I suppose I thought we’d be safe from its affliction.
All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them. -- Walt Disney
I read through all of your poems, but I really love your last one - it wasn't the direction I was expecting at all from the name. I especially love the last three lines of it. Though we're not living in war time right now, I feel like I can relate to the not knowing what to think part with the coronavirus. The world is changing, but we're not really sure how.
Lately I have often thought about the fleeting nature of time. Just yesterday our handsome president was alive and well and today they tell us he is dead.
His children are barely six and three The little one will not remember him and the older only barely. Will they see the pictures and know how much he loved them? Will their mother tell them stories?
Today, they retreat back to ordinary life everything taken in an instant. How could they have known?
All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them. -- Walt Disney
I woke up this morning and curled my hair and put some lipstick on my face. I was out of foundation (forgot to get more the last time I was at the drugstore) so I went without The dark circles under my eyes exposed for the world to see.
I put on my dress Blue and floral and my new heeled sandals from the store.
I supposed I looked pretty enough for random men to call me baby but not enough for anyone to look a second time.
All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them. -- Walt Disney
Play the music softly now so that I can close my eyes and be a world away and maybe you will draw the the images in my mind, make them move like magicians do make me forget about the looming threat of war. It was only two years ago a certain princess with skin as white as snow and a certain penchant for apples made me believe in magic. Perhaps you will help us feel it again.
All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them. -- Walt Disney
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