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Post by goldenmyst on Nov 19, 2018 23:34:35 GMT -6
Thrift Store Blues
The background music is the eighties
But her mind swims further upstream
While her fingers sort used clothes
Which she cannot afford
Her manager notes she seems self-absorbed
With her mind not on her work
But this thrift store holds the key
To her preoccupation
For one person’s trash is another’s treasure
And that futon gives her dreams
Of a firm mattress for her aching back
The stereo with a five-disc changer
Would play her disco boogie
Without ads to interrupt
Yet the overalls she just hung up
Would take her to an America of cornfields
Where her great grandma
Worked alongside the men
And people grew their own food
With grocery stores the last resort
But her dreams lay fallow for another season
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Post by simpledip on Nov 20, 2018 1:51:55 GMT -6
May be destiny beckons her yonder, a shore she has yet
to reach, a mountain she yearns to climb,
even as a voice behind warns - one is too deep, the other way too high. This touched me deeply as I too dream...
Namaste. -Dip |
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Post by goldenmyst on Nov 20, 2018 5:51:13 GMT -6
Dip, we dreamers hold closely our dreams. I thank you from my heart for feeling deeply this expression of my dreaming. Your contemplation is one of the depth of a true poet.
In the bond of fellowship,
Namaste,
John
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Post by lostineternity99 on Nov 20, 2018 6:14:51 GMT -6
This is one of your very best, John; you have captured her plight and dreams in an empathetic way ... we had a large back yard garden growing up, it is something I miss. |
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Post by susan on Nov 20, 2018 7:55:35 GMT -6
oh i love it
and considering that i'm a thrift store shopper, lol..i was at a 50% off event on sunday so, picked up a few things, but nope, only one thing fit me, lol
so
susan
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Post by goldenmyst on Nov 20, 2018 12:17:19 GMT -6
Rick, thank you from my heart. I just started writing and this came up. Glad you enjoyed my friend. And growing up with my grandparents my grandpa made a huge garden I will never forget.
John
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Post by goldenmyst on Nov 20, 2018 12:19:41 GMT -6
Susan, wonderful to hear about your recent thrift store shopping experience. I used to go to them all the time. I would hop from one to another looking for clothes and odds and ends. Sorry, not all your clothes there fit you. But glad you enjoyed my poem.
John
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Post by AquarianM on Nov 23, 2018 21:59:11 GMT -6
I think wanting simpler things is really a virtue. I was just going to go to a local thrift store today run by Habitat For Humanity to shop outdoor Christmas decorations for the front porch. Unfortunately they closed before I could get there. Very well written, John. Way better than things going in the landfill.
Dan
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Post by goldenmyst on Nov 23, 2018 22:10:44 GMT -6
I got all my TVs at thrift stores. I spend hours looking and going from store to store to get the one I'm looking for. I have an aversion to fancy or expensive clothes and electronics. I got my computer from a hole in the wall place which recycles corporate computers. Thank you for sharing your interest in simplifying my friend. Hope you get those Christmas decorations from your local thrift store. I enjoy the work of sorting through clothes for my size. Often I find designers cloths among the racks.  John |
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Post by AquarianM on Nov 23, 2018 23:22:15 GMT -6
Clothes are one thing I never do in thrift stores. I am 6'6" & 325 lbs with a 14 shoe size. I mostly go to DXL or get what I have repaired at a local shop.
Dan
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