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Memories For Sale
by Karen C Vanderlaan → (All Poetry by Karen C Vanderlaan)
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Memories for Sale

 

Can a memory be sold?

Is it possible to put a price,

On days of laughter and nights of love,

Made upon this hardwood bed?

 

A price is chosen and the sticker put in place,

Those who slept here have now passed on,

And here, a young couple, fingers entwined,

Caress the patina and the curves of the oak.

 

She looks at him with those bedroom eyes,

There is no hesitation as he pays the price,

So the bed is sold, but not the memories,

These two will have to make their own.

 


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 Reviews of "Memories For Sale"
Reviewed by Art Hernandez
Reviewed on March 22, 2009
Nice thoughts Karen...the hand me down sale has turned into a new beginning of memories...

nice...

Art Sun...

Reviewed by Rebecca Lerwill
Reviewed on March 4, 2009
I LOVE this, Karen.
Becca~

Reviewed on March 3, 2009
nice piece to ponder Karen, I say keep the good memories my dear, love&hugs2u

Reviewed by Mary Patterson
Reviewed on March 3, 2009
Wow Karen. So much said in a few lines. Yes, the young couple will make their own new memories......M

Reviewed by Edwin Hurdle
Reviewed on March 3, 2009
Great poem Karen.I enjoy reading it,take care

Edwin

Reviewed by Debby Rosenberg
Reviewed on March 2, 2009
if the furniture could talk...oh my

Reviewed by Richard Cederberg
Reviewed on March 2, 2009
Excellent insight! Memories between two strengthen the roots that keep the verdure of their special union healthy.
Blessings ...

Reviewed by J'nia Fowler
Reviewed on March 2, 2009
A very clever write. Well done. Blessings, J'nia

Reviewed by Georg Mateos
Reviewed on March 2, 2009
I wonder if anybody wold pay for my memories, ah...no?
And as Fee said, one heck of a haunting question.

Georg


Reviewed on March 2, 2009
Karen,

Absolutely gorgeous, powerfully penned. Concur with Ed Matlack - they can be sold, but not forgotten.

(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.

Reviewed by Felix Perry
Reviewed on March 2, 2009
I enjoy this and the question is a haunting one that lingers in the mind after the last line is read...mayhap the memories can't be sold but is their a spirit of the memories whether they were good or bad that lingers in the bed like a ghost haunts a house? Excellant write my friend.
hugs
Fee

Reviewed by George Carroll
Reviewed on March 1, 2009
I agree with Cynthia

Reviewed by Gene Williamson
Reviewed on March 1, 2009
I love this, Karen. I guess the price of memories is life. -gene.

Reviewed by Amber Moonstone
Reviewed on March 1, 2009
Memories, they have an energy signature, and that signature does remain in anything that has touched a human spirit. That bed is filled with many energies that came to it before, and will continue the pattern until it is destroyed or discarded.
Lovely words you have penned my friend,
Peace, love, and light,
Amber "V"

Reviewed by Sage Sweetwater
Reviewed on March 1, 2009
Priceless! If a mattress could talk. Gives new meaning to "hand me down"...Memories For Sale is one of your thicker slat pieces, Karen...a rich comforter of thoughts...be well...

Sage

Reviewed on March 1, 2009
Hello Karen,

This is sweet. There are treasures in life that go beyond possessions, and "we make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."
Memories are some of life's treasures.

Cynthia

Reviewed by Carin Spirit
Reviewed on March 1, 2009
Touching and Sweet. Be Well, Carin'

Reviewed by Connie Faust
Reviewed on March 1, 2009
Very nice, creative and fun to read.
Connie

Reviewed by E T Waldron
Reviewed on March 1, 2009
Deep poignant thoughts ,that reveal your scope
of knowledge,beautifully written,Karen!

Love,
Eileen

Reviewed by Ed Matlack
Reviewed on March 1, 2009
Memories can be sold, but never forgotten...e

Reviewed by Randall Barfield
Reviewed on March 1, 2009
I like "So the bed is sold, but not the memories,..." Good job. Something different?


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