Welcome back, friends! My poem today is #86 in this year's Stafford Challenge (and #451, including the number of poems from last year's challenge). Maureen Thorson’s NaPoWriMo prompt: “We’d like to challenge you to write [a] poem that recounts a memory of a beloved relative, and something they did that echoes through your thoughts today.” Robert Lee Brewer’s Poem-a-Day suggestion: “For today's prompt, write a set poem [as in] set my alarm [or] set things in motion.” I'm combining both prompts, as usual, in today's poem. The photo below is my mom, Candida, a little over 50 years ago. This poem, incidentally, will be a part of a collection of poems I'm writing about her. What Mom Would Always Say Today, Alan is working with the "set" prompt. If only George H, a character in the poem, were a relative of the speaker, Alan would have satisfied both prompts. But George H. can't be related to the speaker because it would ruin the point about unexpected kindness.
A lovely poem, Alan. Thank you. Thanks for swinging by. See you again tomorrow! Friends, won’t you comment, please? Love to know what you’re thinking. Thanks! Ingat, everyone. ヅ |
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I've read several of the poems generated by Maureen's prompt for the 12th, and all of them seem to have a warm remembrance of a beloved relative, or in Alan's case, just a good-hearted person. Vince, my mom used to say the same thing to me as I was going out, and sometimes my buddies would rag me for it, but I knew she cared. My poem ended up being about my grandfather and his model train set. I think you'll like it.
George Hadjidakis ran Vinyl Solution Records (there were still records then), and it was, alongside a bookstore named Another Roadside Attraction, one of my favorite places in Tuscaloosa as I experienced it. The song is "Radio Song," of course, and R.E.M. became my favorite band in those years. Everything about this poem is true except it does not express enough appreciation for what George and his shop has meant to me.
Thanks, Bruce! I'm gonna over and read that poem now. I'm a couple days behind.
Alan, vinyl records are making quite the comeback. So there are still records now (or again). George's shop name is pretty clever, punning on "final solution."
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