PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

vernaculars and other uneven boundaries

of thought

solidify in the minds of most

making us each

just what we are

unique individuals

in each our learned though limited

out look

one's point of reference

explains so much

one's generation

life experience

geometric placing

education

spiritual awareness and depth

but best of all

influences

the baby boomers were avid Beatles lovers

while the down trodden men and women folk

fleeing the old country

beaded worry and tailed misery all throughout

their home fire's doors

but always looking for ways to give their

children just a little more

a better life one might even believe

but for yet several years to come

my mother was and somewhat still is like that

though she herself stands to form some three

or four generations back

an American today of vague Germanic descent

hard back breaking work

day and night

with so very little to show for it

was during those great depressive years

quite the family norm

our motto was

'we have what we have

where others tend to get

whatever is the deserved'

and to some subtle degree

those very same determined genes

flow steadily throughout my own

vigorous veins

thankfully though

I am quite mentally strong

ever true to my purpose and course

I possess a firm foundation of deeply

recognizable self on which to fearlessly

build

my wealth of creativeness hails from the

thickened elongated flow of grim yet focused

determination

held bottled up throughout the overly narrowed

ages

in faithful hearts that had to

out of dire necessity

set aside all artistic aspirations

just to simply survive

how fortunate am I that today

that is hardly the case

the harsh conditions of every day life

at that trying time

lay claim to these very same personal

inner boundaries

of which I today so freely speak

it is so innately true

that tired tattered old adage

where it says

we are all but a product of our

environment

though mine just so happens to be more

so at this point

a low grade environmental force

that continually slaps at my psychological

shores

discontent over the changing damage that it

incurs so it would seem truly most fortunate

indeed am I

to house in my hidden DNA such fabulous coping

reproductive family genes

that ever so generously reigns such ribbons

of strength, good judgment and natural

intellect upon this latest installment to the

old family's linage

that of which I must confess

I all too easily

if need be

fall repeatedly back on

such a safety net

in the darker moments

was

is

and every shall be

this amazing heritage of

genial legacy.............

(Feb. 11, 1999)