For dversepoets.com
This is a make-up for a prompt I missed two weeks ago to write a poem using the term "I forgot", "I forget"or "How we Forget".
I forgot what it feels like to be in love,,,
yet I remember certain kisses
I forgot how the elephant raised the circus tent
but remember I once kept a dime in my shoe
I forgot how Brando wept in "On the Waterfront"
until I watched it again today
I remember when I was deliberately lied to
and when I learned to trust again
I remember when you carried me piggyback
because I was barefoot over a rocky trail
I remember your arms putting me gently down on the grass
like finding and losing the holy Grail
I remember the campfire songs so sweet
I forgot candlelit small boats sent downstream
I forgot her birthday on Christmas;
I'm sure she feels cheated each year
I forgot about the one Native American girl in our school,
how alone she must have felt,
I remember her crippled, aged mother
who always smiled at me
I remember the drive through the mountains
as a young girl to the sea
I remember listening to a football game on the car radio...
I remember it was U of W vs USC
I'll not forget the men I have loved
How many have not forgotten me
