An Ode to my Childhood home

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An Ode to my Childhood home

Today I woke up and realized
that thirty-two years have gone by.
It seems like yesterday, I was playing
outside with my siblings, throwing
rocks in the creek and exploring
those Kentucky hills. I miss those
days when life was simpler.
We were not rich by any means,
but we had plenty, more than
alot of kids we went to school
with. Now my childhood home
is falling down, taken over by
nature. Kentucky, where my roots
were planted is a haven for pills
and methamphetamine, where
there's no hope to get out of
a terrible situation. The mountains
are being blasted away, and
people's minds are being wasted.
I will always miss "My old Kentucky
home far away...."

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copergirl commented on An Ode to my Childhood home

01-24-2011

You have bittersweet memories of a life that was full of the simple pleasures--no wonder we long for that again in these days of uncertainty. You make the reader see the beauty of those days...

willaj1978

01/24/2011

thanks momma

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you or else it is nothing, an empty formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.

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