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1902 (written for wednesday's writing essentials) By Isis Andersen

June 23, 2008 09:51 PM EDT

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1902 was a good year
the year my grandfather was born
America was confident then
a lot like this old house
full of memories of golden days
and summers long gone
of blue skies and sunsets like heaven
children playing, lemonade stands
it was all so simple then
no great dreams, no plans
all was peace before the pain
no great war yet, no love lost
but it was a dream within a dream
disappearing like a mist at dawn

by Isis Andersen Wednesday June 4, 2008

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Tags: nostalgia, philosophical, dream, mist, memory

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Comments: 6

Patricia J. Jun 23, 2008, 10:49pm EDT

An interesting poem.

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Alison H. Jun 23, 2008, 11:32pm EDT

Beautiful.....

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Chana M. Jun 27, 2008, 7:56pm EDT

Isis, I loved your poem and the blue house. Don't take this the wrong way because its intended as a compliment. It reminds me of a Norman Rockwell painting, of a beautifull America that never really existed except in our own minds. Thank you for sharing this @ Post Art - Any Medium!

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Cynthia Isis A. Jun 27, 2008, 8:29pm EDT

For some people it did seem to exist in their childhood.. but it was always harder than the good memories.. lots of sickness..and early deaths of children.. and then the war came and the spanish flu.. that mysterious killing flu born of all the death on the battle fields in europe sweeping silently across the world murdering millions.. oh.. wow.. life was never the same after the Great War...

It was just a dream.. not offended at all.. Neptune was in Cancer and that sign rules the United States so we had a collective vision of an ideal America for a brief time.

Have you ever seen the Wind and the Lion with Candace Bergen and Sean Connery? watch that for it is well caught in that film.

Thanks for the comments on this poem.

Blessings,
Isis

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Cynthia Isis A. Jun 27, 2008, 8:32pm EDT

Just read that they estimate 20 to 100 million people died in the pandemic that followed World War I. Spanish flu of 1918... wow.. my grandfather was ill effected for life by it but survived that flu. He was five when he got it.

Thanks Chana. I did have the events soon to come in mind when I wrote this poem.

Isis.

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