Sunday, February 28, 2021

55

I dreamed of no reflection, no one looking back at me.
I could see all too clearly, where 
I'm sure that I should be. 
I heard a voice that wasn't mine and it whispered soft to me.
I was your ghost, of what use to be, when the mirror once could see.
When days were warm and nights were short beside the sounding sea.
I saw your thoughts before they came and knew your hearts desire, but now I whisper soft and low through times and tides of mire.
I hope that when I wake today and stand before that mirror, that it sees myself, with all its flaws and only my thoughts remaining clear.
R.Sweat

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

54

The Sweetest winds they blow across  the South,  she said these words to me
 I watched her smile with her sad eyes and then she walked away
Still the warm breeze touched my heart and brought to mind Magnolias and the sea and I knew  then I had lost my way
Oh Carolina, I'll see you if for just one day
R. Sweat

53

Summer days, to Summer nights and Summers gone too soon,
Summer breeze near Summer tides cause Summer hearts to swoon.
Summers come and Summers go as seasons  prone to do
When all I ever needed was a  girl to hold it's  moon.
R.Sweat
Angela and my friend Paula Reavis (who owns Babys Away of Charleston)
who posted the great picture  and got my mind churning.  While the picture is by Paula, the poetry and my heart as always are My Angels.

52

Story.
My son and I were driving by the apartment complex on the corner of Orangeburg and South Rhett when we saw a guy stagger out of an apartment and get into a car. Instead of backing out he put the car in drive and ran into the fire hydrant on the corner.
We pulled over to see if he would leave the scene so we could call NCPD.
To our entertainment after backing up, he got out the car and with his rear end on the hydrant, using his legs he tried to straighten up the bent hydrant which was leaking pretty bad.
After one final push he not only moved it, HE BROKE IT COMPLETELY OFF.
The resulting water pressure sent him 8-10 feet in the air and deposited him on the hood of his own car. 
Angry and not hurt he climbed behind the wheel and drove his car onto the 20 foot high geyser that pomptly lifted his front wheel drive car a foot off the ground and immediately tore off his hood.
Undaunted he fought the high pressure water that sprayed out from under the car in a vain attempt to push what had to be the cleanest undercarriage and engine in Northchuck off old faithful. The pressure was so great that it knocked him down several times and blew off his shirt and wrapped his pants  around one ankle, leaving him in boxers and Nike's when the police arrived.
Only In North Charleston :)