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Position:Home>Poetry> Have you ever tried to think of your first memory and only see fragments of it?Question: Have you ever tried to think of your first memory and only see fragments of it!? Tired and slow!.
Dog, barking!. I run!. Mother and neighbor!. Fat old lady!. Thin green dress!. I’m hot!. I sit, kitchen floor!. She stands near!. I look up!. Flesh everywhere!. Hair!. Blue veins!. I’m up on my knees!. Inches away now!. It stinks, she screams!. Her leg, my face!. Sweat, more stink!. Mom, laughing!. Home again!. Dog, barking!. Tired and slow!. Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: silent and tense plastic soldiers lined for battle on faded brown linoleum germans in sloped helmets hold the high ground of the bottom stair Americans stand ready with tanks and bazookas waiting to fire the front door swings wide and my father ends the war without firing a single shot!.Www@QuestionHome@Com My earliest memory is running through and attic with my brother!. There is a section with a ladder on it and clothes on hangers are hanging from this ladder's rungs!. They appear to be winter clothes!. Coats, heavy sweaters and such!. I was grown before I ever mentioned this memory to my Mama and she told me it was impossible for me to remember it because the only place it could have been was a house we lived in when I was 18 months old!. But there you go! Www@QuestionHome@Com Yeah, I can only see fragments, may be because vision works in a selective mode, to furnish a skeleton for the memory theme, the rest is left to to be filled by ones imagery( among other factors)!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com It's a high wall on a curved street in England!. We're walking on the sidewalk, the wall to our right!. There are green vines crawling over the top of the wall!. Mom says I can't possibly remember that because I was two and a half!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Yes!. That ridiculously short plaid dress with the big lace collar and those tights with ruffles on the butt!. (Kidnergarten) * I accidentally ruined those tights the first day I wore them!.Www@QuestionHome@Com my first real memory is of my brother having a seizure in his crib at 2 months old!. I had just turned 4!. I asked mom what was wrong!.!.!.she said "nothing, go to bed"!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Geez, that's really your first memory!?!?!? That explains a lot! And heck, you wrote it so well, I smelled the stink!. maWww@QuestionHome@Com I remember living in the country running through plowed fields, climbing trees, making mud pies, and Mom's homemade biscuits!. Gosh, I wish I could re-live those days!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I am seven years old My mother's voice comes tired over the telephone wire: 'I'm sorry, sweetheart it was a boy, You will have your own little girl when you grow up!.' Www@QuestionHome@Com Oh crap!.!.did you see her huge underwear too!? I remember a strange, orange "aspergum"!.!.!. (they chopped my tonsils when I was 3) Www@QuestionHome@Com Yes and I see more that fragments!. I see the whole thing guess that's why its so scary to think back when!.Www@QuestionHome@Com this reminds me of an old woman mom called a friend!. she constantly kept talking that mom couldn't get in a word!. Www@QuestionHome@Com good ole mrs!. basleyWww@QuestionHome@Com Yeah Kind of like the way we get our news today!. Fragmented and distorted!. Www@QuestionHome@Com |