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Ruthi
I am from high hills and low valleys, from poverty and pain.
I am from the rural farmhouse rentals that changed every few months
for never ending years.
I am from the barren alfalfa fields, the cornfields bittersweet.
I am from the Cox Tree Service woodsmen and men and women
who played as hard as they worked.
From Stanley Cox and Anna Kinsler - Anna Mae Cox was born - my
mother whom I proudly claim.
I am from the addictions of drugs, sex and alcohol and domestic violence of all forms.
From cold dark secrets and hot blooded heathens.
I am from the baptism of Lutheran religion, a grandma who worshipped Jehovah,
and an array of childhood non-denominational church attendances - all of which seemed to me, in my youth,
to be practicing hypocracies.
I am from the hidden hills of Sugar Grove, Ohio, where a pot of beans and home grown tomatoes fed an aching belly.
From the unwed mother, the unknown father and the abusive stepfathers I have been born and bred.
I am from God and from the grand old U S of A, and since I am now no longer from my past,
I am at present a woman with a unique soul, with the God given right and the freedom to determine my future.
I am woman and I will do more than survive.
I will thrive!
© 2006 Ruth Cox
ruthcox@abitosunshine.net
abitosunshine's Genres: poetry, prose & the occasional essay, short story
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A Bit O' My Poetry by abitosunshine
These are a few o' the pages o' my life,
Some written as happiness, some as strife.
All are words from my heart that come from Above,
JOYously shared with a bit o' sunshine love.
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