Abrasive meeting after school
Late to get home
Husband follows right after
Loss of me time
What for supper?
Something quick
Old stand-by
Cream of mushroom soup
with tuna on toast
We sit in the warming house
eating on TV trays
Remember leaner years
Usually broke
always happy
Kids chatting about their day
Teasing, laughing,
whining, glowing
We're alone now
Husband glances over
Says, “I love you”
Smiles, goes back to eating
mushrooms and tuna
and a handful
of memories.
18 comments:
Sheilagh Lee said: Beautiful. so true with empty nest syndrome.
Lovely last verse..I hope the mushroom soup,tuna toast and being together was warmth enough..Jae
Just as well you have your love to keep you warm:)
Beautifully done. We're almost in that position now - only a year before the last goes to college.
Okay this brought me tears!! Well done Linda! You always capture the moment perfectly! I hope you have all these poems of your life in one book!
Hugs Sherrie
Mushrooms, I love!
dead woman and her treasures
Very inspiring and beautiful..by the way I have never had Mushroom Soup..
I love the way you wrapped that all up with that last verse. :-)
Linda
This piece made me happy! I am lucky to experience similar memories and moments.
What a sweet poem!
I can only be so lucky if the I love You's are as tasty as Mushroom soup when we get there. It all flies by so fast.
And a lot of memories you evoked for me too. What a peaceful, descriptive bit of writing! I enjoyed it thoroughly.
Pity about the 'me' time lost but perhaps you can have the teasing and laughing just for two. Great poem.
I love your poetry. (But I can't stand mushroom soup.)
Lovely all around! It's those quiet moments that bring us together with loved ones. Well done.
Awwwwwww!
This is a definite pull on the heartstrings...so sweet!
I relate to this, It's a scene I am very familiar with :)
thank you for saying it so poetically!
you painted a lovely scene with words ... wonderful. JP/deborah
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