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Jazz Meditation In C minor by Stan Shawnee Boyd on #SoundCloud

THANKSGIVING 

Wake up this morning on Lake Seminole , day before Thanksgiving. 
Got all the old people on my mind,
Thanksgiving days gone by. 
All my old folks gone to the other side.
I remember uncles in the kitchen 
toss-in' back shots, bad jokes and wild game in the pot. 
Can't remember what I was thinkin' then, just a sprout, but I know what I'm thinkin' now. 
Just an old movie I run backwards in my mind. 
Never has been much I wanted to hang onto. Too often play the stranger. 
It's Thanksgiving. S'pose I oughta feel sorry and sometimes I do. 
Wild game in the pot, a merriment I've lost. 
The broth gets murky when I stir it. 
All my family's gone. 

2009


 


 

Ida passed to the spirit world, January 29, 2003 at age 91. Ida, my Mother and best friend all my days. I started having vivid dreams of her as I remembered her, my age forty, she age seventy. This is one of my portraits out of those dreams.