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MY PARTNER, MY SOUL MATE, AND MY BEAT FRIEND

MY PARTNER, MY SOUL MATE, AND MY BEST LOVING FRIEND:
I REMEMBER THE TRUE LOVE OF MY GRANDMA, AND GRANDPA BRANTNER, HOW THERE LOVE WAS SO PURE, SO REAL AND NOT FAKE OR PRETEND:
  IN EVERYTHING THAT THEY WOULD DO, THEY WERE, TOGETHER IN PERFECT CHIME:
  MY MOTHER AGNES, SAID NEVER DID SHE EVER HERE THEM HAVE AN ARGUMENT, NOT EVEN ONE TIME:
GRANDMA, AND GRANDPA, RAISED TEN KIDS ON THE FARM:
THEY WERE ALWAYS SO BUSY WORKING ON THE FARM,CROPS TO TEND TO IN THE FIELD, AND COWS NEEDED MILKING IN THE BARN:
  THEY WERE SOUL MATES, ALWAYS PERFECTLY IN TIME:
  IN EVERYTHING THAT THEY DID, FROM SUN UP UNTIL EVENING SUPER TIME:
THEY WERE LIFE PARTNERS, SOUL MATES AND VERY BEST FRIENDS:
WORKING TOGETHER SUN UP TO SUPER TIME, ON THERE FARM, IN DURAND WISCONSIN, RAISING TEN KIDS:
  GRANDPA HE WAS A HANDY MAN, AND ALSO A CARPENTER THAT BUILT THE BARN:
  MY GRANDPA AND THE BOYS ,TENDED TO THE CROPS IN THE FIELD, FED AND MILKED THE COWS, THEY RAN THE FARM:
GRANDMA, SHE DID ALMOST EVERYTHING ELSE:
HER LOVE AND CHARM, CHARISMA WAS HER BRIGHT RADIENT BEAUTIFUL WEALTH:
  THEY CAME FROM THE COUNTRY OF, AUSTRIA YEARS AND YEARS AGO:
  GRANDMA, SHE WAS IN CHARGE OF THE MASSIVE PLENTIFUL GARDEN,WHERE EVERY KNOWN VEGETABLE EVER KNOWN SHE WOULD GROW:
THERE WERE FIVE APPLE TREES IN THERE BACK YARD:
THEY WERE GREEN ONES AND SO HARD:
  BUT BELIEVE ME THEY TASTED PRETTY GOOD IN GRANDMAS, CINNAMON APPLE PIE:
  AFTER YOU ATE ONE HEALTHY SLICE,AND IT WAS THE BEST APPLE PIE YOU EVER HAD , AND ANOTHER PIECE YOU WOULD HAVE TO TRY:
MY GRANDMA WAS ALWAYS WEARING AN APRON, AROUND HER WAIST:
WHEN SHE WAS WORKING IN THE GARDEN, AND THEN CHANGED HER APRON FOR THE KITCHEN, SHE NEVER STOPPED WORKING AND HAD NO TIME TO WAST:
  GRANDPA LOVED TO GO FISHING, AND USED AN OLD TEN FOOT LONG CANE POLE:
  HE ALWAYS . SO PROUDLY BROUGHT HOME HIS CATCH OF THE DAY, FROM THE WISCONSIN LAKE, CROPIES, OR SUNFISH.A BUCKET OR TWO OVER FULL:
THEN LIKE CLOCK WORK, GRANDMA WOULD CLEAN AND PREPARE ALL THE FISH, AND IN A MINUTE HAVE THEM COOKING IN THE FRYING PAN
EVERYTHING THAT THEY DID, THEY DID IT TOGETHER, AS PARTNER, SOUL MATES AND BEST FRIENDS, TOGETHER ALL THERE LIFE THEY MET EVERY DEMAND:
  I HAVE NEVER SAW A COUPLE MORE IN LOVE THAN THESE TWO:
  PARTNERS, SOUL MATES,AND BEST FRIENDS, IN ALL THEY WOULD THINK, SAY AND DO:
MY GRAND PARENTS, WERE PARTNERS, SOUL MATES, AND BEST FRIENDS, FROM SUN UP TO SUPER TIME:
GODS LOVE WAS IN THERE HEART, AND SOUL, AND THEY WERE BLESSED WITH ONE ANOTHER AND WERE SO GENTLE LOVING, CARING AND KIND
  WRITING THIS SIMPLE POEM, I FEEL SO BLESSED AND TOUCHED:
  REMEMBERING MY GRANDMA AND GRANDPA, WHO I GREW UP LOVING SO VERY MUCH:  

BY JOHN D. JUNGERS:
23 MARCH 2015:


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MY PARTNER, MY SOUL MATE, AND MY BEAT FRIEND