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Read MoreKilimanjaro Rises Kilimanjaro rises to meet the moon as elephants roam the Serengeti below. It was here I last saw your smile so many winters ago. I saw ages travel, snow melting in miles feeding fertile valleys with wild, white Marigolds. Sister elephants told stories of the lion’s hunt and...
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Thank you RomaJ, you always leave insightful comment and reviews. I appreciate how you see and read this poem.
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Read More© 2015Big BrothersBy FlatDaddyWe rarely saw each other growing up --Different fathers, you see, though my mother had divorced them both.Not having much, mom couldn't raise us all.I stayed with her.They stayed at our grandparents. Mama Mae, Papa Jim She, a big, smiley...
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Here we see your tender side. Your family being scattered and fragmented is something I can relate to. Fine work, my friend.
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Thanks, Sam. I was wondering when I would run into you. I’m not surprised it’s here. Take it while you can get it, though. I’m afraid there’s not a lot of tenderness I can share. I have some mayhem, but I try to keep that under wraps. I’ll let it out to play sometimes, though.
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I like how the poem weaves together memory, myth, and landscape -using Kilimanjaro and the elephants as both witnesses and carriers of history, loss, and hope. I feel the weight of longing for someone gone, but also a sense of resilience, as if the mountain and the rain hold the promise of renewal and freedom.