14 WORDS for LOVE - 2015: First Love
Above is my 5th entry for "14 WORDS for LOVE - 2015".
(And below is a longer version of the same poem/event:)
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| Gumball Machine - photo credits below. // 3rd grade school photo - c.1965 |
First Love
He'd sneak up behind me
on the playground,
steal my stocking cap
and bestow a kiss.
He gifted me a golden ring
from a gumball machine
and a purloined pen
he'd swiped from his sister.
Later, he broke my heart
conflating my name
with another's.
After half a century,
in an old photo
I fail to recognize his face.
He's a stranger to me now,
yet, I still recall his name.
PSC/2015
Gumball Machines - Photo Credit:
By Unclefester (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
And here's a link to Jodi Barnes' "14 WORDS for LOVE" BLOG:
http://14wordsforlove.com/
And here's a link to Jodi Barnes' "14 WORDS for LOVE" BLOG:
http://14wordsforlove.com/
