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A POEM ABOUT ME: WHERE I’M FROM
I am from tobacco fields and strawberry patches, fried chicken for Sunday dinner and sweet tea.
I am from frame farm houses, weeping willow trees, and juicy, red grapes on the vine.
I am from the lilac tree and peony bush whose early morning fragrances float through open windows along with the bright sunlight.
I am from picnics on the Fourth of July, family reunions, hardworking men and frugal women.
I am from ghost stories, games of red rover, hopscotch, marbles, and roller skates.
I am from ice cream and chicken noodle soup for colds and a doctor that came to the house.
I am from Methodists, Baptists, Pentecostalism, Catholics, and worshiping God by being spiritual within and loving life and being kind to others.
I am from the Bluegrass State of Kentucky with goldenrod and redbud lined back roads, coal mines and racehorses, biscuits and gravy and country ham.
I am from a grandfather I never knew with a handlebar mustache, a grandmother with long braided hair worn pinned into a bun on the back of her head, a homebody mother, and a father that gave me my love of nature.
I am from fragments of people, hardships, love and experience. I can not ask to be from more.