Where Have They Gone? for dVerse Poets, Aug 22, 2025

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Where Have They Gone?

Where has it gone, that memory
that matched names to faces,
attached today
to  the day of the week
by which we call it?

Where have they gone–
my favorite cape,
my car keys and my iPhone,
the lid to the butter dish
and my reading glasses?

Gone with that wind, perhaps,
that blew away last autumn’s leaves,
then snow from the sidewalk
and that errant downspout
from its final weak attachment.

Where went lost loves,
my parents
and departed friends?
Dogs, birds and cats
and other loved, once-living things?

Gone, too, with the wind?
If so, this  final question:
where goes the wind
and someday,
where go I?

For dVerse Poets, the assignment is to construct a poem centered around the line “Where is?” of “Where are?

24 thoughts on “Where Have They Gone? for dVerse Poets, Aug 22, 2025”

    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      I once told a friend I needed to leave that I couldn’t find my phone and thought I’d left it in Walmart. She said, “Judy, you are talking to me on your phone!” Does it get any worse that this???

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    2. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      The photo you see here is not staged.. I had actually looked all over for my long-vision glasses as I needed to drive somewhere. I had on my reading glasses because I’d been blogging. Finally,I told Yolanda I was looking for my glasses so I could drive her home, and she smiled and pointed at my head.. Sure enough, they were there—a few inches about my reading glasses, which I was wearing, too.l

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  6. Melanie Fitzgerald's avatarMelanie Fitzgerald

    just FYI I have always gotten confused in responding to your writings. Most of my confusion involves not getting a ‘sent’ confirmation on my end. I don’t need a reply from you as confirmation as you are busy writing something else, but I count on my end to tell me that my email was actually sent. I just sent you a status and it seemed to go out into the wind. The best of it: I think of you as a National Treasure and I’m not kidding at all. Melanie

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    1. okcForgottenMan's avatarokcForgottenMan

      Melanie, I monitor Judy’s comments, and your last couple have shown up as anonymous and awaiting moderation, so I added your info from previous comments & approved them. Love what you’re saying about her, and I lovingly agree!

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    2. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      That’s very sweet, Melanie. If you write the comments on my blog, just sign your name as you seem not to be signed up as a follower. must admit after all these years, I don’t quite know how this works either. Sometimes it won’t let me respond on my own blog!.. If you write via email, email me at jubob2@hotmail.com, not the email on my blog as I forget to look at that one. I do always read comments on the blog, though, so just sign your name and I’ll know it is you. Does it notify you when I write back to you?

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