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LOVE THIS!
Went from making me smile to a tear in my eye.
Home is supposed to be a place of solitude and peace and so often, it's a place of pain.
Felt both in this David.
Bear Hug Bro!
Luv ya man!

your comments made my day :-) big Scottish bear hug right back at ya :-)

What an incredibly crushing experience...to go from the nostalgic smells of home and comfort to devastation. You captured so many emotions in this piece, David. So many hugs headed your way

I hope you were still able to enjoy the write :-) 1000 hugs on their way :-)

people should leave deep fat fryers
to the professionals,
the fish and chippies ..

Yeah! they should buy oven chips :-p

it was a wonderful visionable write. a Human function of memory can still be selective-
it did peregrinate around the brooke and flowed directly into the ocean of poetry freshness..
again a great write!

"it did peregrinate around the brooke and flowed directly into the ocean of poetry freshness." - a terrific and very poetic response - thank you :-)

so I should stay on the bong-lol the biggest hit ever- I intake, exhale..and read, read, read what comes out of that process is either me or pink rabbits.. inside joke on the pink rabbits- I will write about it one day- things  rarely leave my thoughts , if they made an impression .. I dig your work, I would not BS- If I feel it - I read lots of folks on here , that I support, but dont leave comments, for reasons of my own..lol

david, you are the puppet master of my emotions this morning... i have gone from laughing to smiling to horrified in the space of two poems.
nostalgia and trauma coalesce here with devastating effect

thank you so much - emotional responses are, to me, the most important :-) #bigScottishBearHugs

AAaaahhhh......how aromas can become the triggers that transport our memories....

The first few lines left me with warm, heart-sparkles....carried me right back to my childhood. And just as quickly as i was caught up in the comfort of those daydreams, i was pulled into the stark reality of the Poet's world--one in which the combined feelings of security and happiness were not equally portioned with those of pain and fear.

However...this entire poem evokes intense emotional responses--.both awesome, and awful! And David, for me, this is one of the reasons that i appreciate,not only this piece, but all your others that create these depths of feelings. I admire your ability to permit your readers to both sympathize, and empathize with the narrator's pov.

(My thoughts are with you, mo Chara...as i sense a bit of personal expression here) xo


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David, you most definitely wrap up visceral all sorts of tidy even when it's not...impactful write my friend...well done!

xoxo Taryn