Reminiscing Poem by James B. Earley

Author's Note:
Dedicated to my mother's sister, Aunt Ophine Buford - commemorating her 100th Birthday…8 August 2014.


Remembering Mounds
Another place and time
My view from the ridge
…Etched..in my mind

Rising in the distance
Mississippi River Bridge
…..Crossing at Cairo
My view from the ridge

Far removed from Mounds
..Another place and time
Napa Valley's..Carneros..
Whose scenery reminds

….Of off in the yonder
San Francisco Bay Bridge
Reminiscent of my childhood's
….View from the ridge

I think of my Mother…
Her siblings especially you
...Grandma and Grandpa
And Uncle Buddy..I view

In your one hundred years
…Afforded relatively few
How precious…Aunt Ophine
…Happy Birthday…To You