Photo: Taken at the Atlantic Antic Street fair, don’t know if they know each other but they do look good together 🙂
On his own / At thirteen a runaway
After passing of his mom / One true love gone
Childhood ceased / No longer belonging
There was no love in their eyes / He was fit only for labor
He made his way to town / Because no one cared
He surprised an older cousin/ This cousin looked out for him
He lived hand to mouth / Till he was seventeen
Then he met my mom / he met a girl of similar fate
She had just come to town / She too was fleeing hardship
These two wanderers made a life together / She had found her anchor
Pat R
4/03/16
Today is make up day and also a three for one day, also twist and turn day (prompt transfer day..Family Portrait was the prompt for Day 2 at NoPoWriMo).
This is for NaPoWriMo, A to Z Challenge ..I missed the letter …A, and Cleave Poem over at JaneDoughertyWrites.com. This is one of the coolest form of poetry I’ve come across. Thanks Jane:) for the introduction.
“A cleave poem is in two halves, two separate poems, one on the left, one on the right, but that make a single poem when you read them together. It sounds tricky…and it is. BUT there are no rhymes, no rhythms and no set length..”
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thoughts and entanglements 
Good feeling isn’t it, when the two halves come together? Great family portrait poem too 🙂
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Yeah, it sure was:) You do challenge us. Thanks for all you do:)
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I get a lot of fun out of it, finding poetry forms I’d never even heard of before. Glad you’re enjoying it too 🙂
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Beautiful. (K)
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Thank you, thanks for stopping by.
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This IS truly beautiful…love the form and how you can read into it as well. I have crammed in a few prompts too here and on my blog at Traces. I love A to Z and NaPoWriMo…your photo speaks mounds depicting several generations as well. Wonderful portrait!
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Thank you Cheryl-Lynn glad it worked out, I must do that again. It did take some doing though. Yep! Today is catch up day, the new prompts starts tomorrow:)
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Luckily I took Sundays off work for 6 months so I can relax and write…or catch up really.
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Nice to be able to do that:)
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Beautiful poem/poems. I’ve not heard of the cleave form, but you made it work so wonderfully.
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Thank you, it’s new to me too:)
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I love the way the two poems come together like the two characters.
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Thank you. That’s why I was so excited:)
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Great family portrait poem with the two halves coming together!
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Thank you, glad you liked it:)
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This poem flows so well recording a sad and heart-warming story. I also enjoy the photo which suggests 3 generations (even if perhaps not exactly).
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Thank you Janice. It was a triumph for me as it took quite some time to accomplish:)
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