Consideration Corner Forum This week's writing topic!

One word...Memory.

Don't forget to submit your piece that you feel personifies this topic so that we can read and critique your work!

Have fun!

 

I think you might need to adjust the options on the group settings for submitting peices.  Right now, I don't see an option anywhere to submit...am I missing something?  let me know when you fix it, cause I got one ready to go for ya! 

 

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Just a couple of suggestions for next week! How about, what do we value most in a friendship? Or, maybe, what helps to motivate us in life?

 

Julian

(aka: "Twilight")

SO AS NOT TO CRY

 

A mother hides the last letter

from her son. She puts it in a drawer

beneath his last photograph

where he’s dressed in his uniform

and if you could believe his face,

his smile, you would swear

 

 

that handsome son could never die.

Although sometimes she thinks

that he is walking in the kitchen

or he calls her name from the door,

what does she have? Only two memories

and she saves them forever

 

hidden in a chest of drawers.

 

At this place the mother prays as if

It were a shrine without candles or statues,

And kneeling there, so as not to cry,

the grieving mother talks to the walls:

 

“But these times are brutal

with a war that devours everything

 

and I, forget it, alone, alone without my son

and without my health. Somewhere far away

one day of noises and screaming,

 

this young man—tall, too thin, eyes black

as night; this young man whom I taught

to respect everyone, including his enemies;

 

this young man who can never be

the cane of my old age;

 

this young man with that smile,

with that voice sweet as bread;

this young man who put to flight

the sun, the moon, all happiness,

 

and my tears which I keep hidden

so as not to cry.

 

The last letter, the last photograph,

The last hope, the last words,

The last flowers, the last song—

All these memories

now under lock and key,

   Hidden forever.

 

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Thank you so much for your submission! It is very beautiful and well written! Can't wait to read what you come up with for next week's submission!