Grandpa's House & From Iraq with Love [Two Poems]

Grandpa’s House


[The ole Real House]

The house needed painting


Sun-blistered and flaking


Grandpa started to have us


Boys—Mike and I— start


Doing some scraping—

While he, pealed off the ole


Paint, and started painting…

Just a humble wooden house


With several rooms, but


Strong enough to keep the


Winds and winter snows out,


How he loved that ole house!...

An’ his well-kept yard, which


Contained lilac bushes, and


Big shade trees; where birds


And squirrels lived—season


To season, scattered on…

Branches—they looked like


Play things (back in the 50s)

#807 8/18/05

Note by the author: “We all grew up together I suppose you might say, my brother and I, mom and grandpa, a few aunts in the beginning, all living in an extended family environment; that is how it felt anyhow. Although the house belonged to my grandfather, we all lived together; now it all seems so long ago, and what pops out of my mind is: I never did take a liking to painting houses after painting his a few times.”

From Iraq with Love

American’s most often are


Certain of what they want


From the world—


In a large measure,


In charge:


Gold, machinery,


Symbols


It’s what it’s all


About…

Shaving


Showering


Outfitting


Medications


Cosmetics


It’s what it’s all


About…

Breakfast


Banquettes


TV’s and couches


Adolescents


Engagement rings—


Thanksgiving’s:


Blessings, gratitude


(no secrets here)


It’s what it’s all

About…

Family


Snow and rain


North by a highway


Dirt and mud


Children


Classmates


Cookies


Just beautiful


Things—freedom


To say and be


That’s the way it was meant


To be:

An’ then,


Along came a bullet:


No mercy


Your dead!...


Nothing more said.

#806 8/16/05

Note by the author: “I am not for or against the war in Iraq, for the most part; although I do believe America did do a great service for the world, and the Iraqi people by bringing down Saddam, a world demonic beast, from his throne, and perhaps it was worth the price, then and now; we are all counting the price right this minute, are we not [?] But is it worth it to continue? A pale question at best, now facing everyone in the country. There are wiser men than I up in Washington D.C., figuring these things out, and surely we do not know everything of what is in the background. But being in a war, I do know this: we won the war, it should be over, and we are not responsible to rebuild their whole country at the cost of taxing the American citizen to death: financially, resources, and our youth wise. I do pray that President Bush will bring our boys home. Enough is enough.”

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<h1>Grandpa's House & From Iraq with Love [Two Poems]</h1><p> <p>Grandpa’s House<br><br /><br /> [The ole Real House]</p><p>The house needed painting<br><br /><br /> Sun-blistered and flaking<br><br /><br /> Grandpa started to have us<br><br /><br /> Boys—Mike and I— start<br><br /><br /> Doing some scraping—<br></p><p>While he, pealed off the ole<br><br /><br /> Paint, and started painting…</p><p>Just a humble wooden house<br><br /><br /> With several rooms, but<br> <br /><br /> Strong enough to keep the<br><br /><br /> Winds and winter snows out,<br><br /><br /> How he loved that ole house!...</p><p>An’ his well-kept yard, which<br><br /><br /> Contained lilac bushes, and<br> <br /><br /> Big shade trees; where birds<br><br /><br /> And squirrels lived—season<br><br /><br /> To season, scattered on…</p><p>Branches—they looked like<br><br /><br /> Play things (back in the 50s)</p><p>#807 8/18/05</p><p>Note by the author: “We all grew up together I suppose you might say, my brother and I, mom and grandpa, a few aunts in the beginning, all living in an extended family environment; that is how it felt anyhow. Although the house belonged to my grandfather, we all lived together; now it all seems so long ago, and what pops out of my mind is: I never did take a liking to painting houses after painting his a few times.”</p><p>From Iraq with Love</p><p>American’s most often are<br><br /><br /> Certain of what they want<br><br /><br /> From the world—<br><br /><br /> In a large measure,<br><br /><br /> In charge:<br><br /><br /> Gold, machinery,<br><br /><br /> Symbols<br><br /><br /> It’s what it’s all<br><br /><br /> About…</p><p>Shaving<br><br /><br /> Showering<br><br /><br /> Outfitting<br><br /><br /> Medications<br><br /><br /> Cosmetics<br><br /><br /> It’s what it’s all<br><br /><br /> About…</p><p>Breakfast<br><br /><br /> Banquettes<br><br /><br /> TV’s and couches<br><br /><br /> Adolescents<br><br /><br /> Engagement rings—<br><br /><br /> Thanksgiving’s:<br><br /><br /> Blessings, gratitude<br><br /><br /> (no secrets here)<br><br /><br /> It’s what it’s all<br /><br /> About…</p><p>Family<br><br /><br /> Snow and rain<br><br /><br /> North by a highway<br><br /><br /> Dirt and mud<br><br /><br /> Children<br><br /><br /> Classmates<br><br /><br /> Cookies<br><br /><br /> Just beautiful<br><br /><br /> Things—freedom<br><br /><br /> To say and be<br><br /><br /> That’s the way it was meant<br><br /><br /> To be:</p><p>An’ then,<br><br /><br /> Along came a bullet:<br><br /><br /> No mercy<br><br /><br /> Your dead!...<br><br /><br /> Nothing more said.</p><p>#806 8/16/05</p><p>Note by the author: “I am not for or against the war in Iraq, for the most part; although I do believe America did do a great service for the world, and the Iraqi people by bringing down Saddam, a world demonic beast, from his throne, and perhaps it was worth the price, then and now; we are all counting the price right this minute, are we not [?] But is it worth it to continue? A pale question at best, now facing everyone in the country. There are wiser men than I up in Washington D.C., figuring these things out, and surely we do not know everything of what is in the background. But being in a war, I do know this: we won the war, it should be over, and we are not responsible to rebuild their whole country at the cost of taxing the American citizen to death: financially, resources, and our youth wise. I do pray that President Bush will bring our boys home. Enough is enough.”</p><div style="float: left; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: white; background-color: white"><img height="60" width="45" src="<a href="http://ezinearticles.com/members/mem_pics/Dennis-Siluk_4009.jpg" target="bago">http://ezinearticles.com/members/mem_pics/Dennis-Siluk_4009.jpg</a>" border="0" alt="EzineArticles Expert Author Dennis Siluk"></div><p>See Dennis Siluk's new book of poems "Spell of the Andes," at any book dealer: <a href="http://www.amazon.com" target="bago">http://www.amazon.com</a> or <a href="http://www.bn.com" target="bago">http://www.bn.com</a></p> More <a href="http://www.articlesroom.com">free articles</a> from <a href="http://www.articlesroom.com">http://www.articlesroom.com</a>

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