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Mutant 750 Challenge: “Wave”

This week for the Mutant 750 challenge, I was given both a visual prompt (in this case a video) and a word prompt and definition.

Here is my creative monster. Enjoy 🙂

 

Right hand extended
The roll of the wrist is how
Great-Grandpa Leinen waved goodbye
The only memory-his wave sitting in Grandpa’s driveway

I am witness to memories as they buckle and toss
Family thread moving adjacent and intermingling
Mine never touches their fabric
Shared truths never revealed

A great aunt whose legacy is blue embroider
Childhood blanket sewn by buried history
Sourdough: family secret

 

6 thoughts on “Mutant 750 Challenge: “Wave””

  1. Ira PT March 3, 2015 — 5:22 am

    “memories as they buckle and toss
    Family thread moving adjacent and intermingling”
    It was a pleasure reading this poem.

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  2. Suzanne March 1, 2015 — 2:32 pm

    This is beautiful. I love how you’ve captured the way memories wash over us. Fantastic work with the prompts! 🙂

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      Vagrant Rhodia March 1, 2015 — 2:37 pm

      Thank you 🙂 I can still see my great-grandfather in his red ball-cap giving us the loop-d-loop wave as we pulled away.

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  3. jacquelinecaseypoetry February 28, 2015 — 9:13 am

    This piece is so special. You really get to the heart of it here.
    Your thread-bare blanket did me in, emotionally. Good work.

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  4. susanwritesprecise February 28, 2015 — 8:51 am

    Good stuff! Read and re-read; my favorite lines are
    “Mine never touches their fabric
    Shared truths never revealed”

    Well done!

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  5. Jen February 26, 2015 — 2:29 am

    oh i love this. That last paragraph really draws me into the family.

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