National Poetry Month…it’s always about the journey!

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Today’s poet is Rob Daly.

An Invitation

written by Rob Daly

A plane ride away
A re-union is planned,
For a place I embraced
Forty years ago.
 
I scan the names
From our six room school
Were these my friends?
Do they remember me?
 
I needed freedom,
Something different,
I took control of my life
In a new school with no rules.
 
In English class we studied
Rock music
In History we took photos
And printed them in a darkroom
Which was the bathroom.
 
The next year I chose
My old high school and a new job
With rules I understood
And freedom to excel.
 
Should I remember the people
From my lost and found year?
I can wear a badge and smile,
Watch for a familiar face.
 
But I won’t remember if we
Took a picture together
Or listened to music.
My friends from forty years ago
Have been in my life all this time.
 
 

5 thoughts on “National Poetry Month…it’s always about the journey!”

  1. You capture the “angst” and nervousness so well-and I too, love the last two lines and the questions. Sooo well done!

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  4. Hey Robbers:
    Yes, you can wear a badge and smile but your true identity is already nestled here in your words. Oh my dear I can just picture you “reunioning,” smiling and
    furtively searching for identification signs. We are all the same. Your poem is a delicious admission and full of images of that young Rob that is the young in all of us as well. Thanks Rob for the honesty. M.R.

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  5. My favorite lines are the last two:
    “My friends from forty years ago
    Have been in my life all this time.”
    A touchstone poem, Rob.

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