Googling Home

I Googled home.
The satellite view of
my house-roof shone in the sun
like a chestnut lollipop.
I traced the footsteps of my childhood,
my tests and trials,
my comings of age…

I didn't see a trace of you;
not in the high grown weeds
on the banks of creeks,
not in the parks with their tall trees.
The highways and hilltops we once
traveled are all there

but we are not.
The home you once knew-
the one that burned down?
hasn't been replaced.
The schools we went to
have all been redone

and new ones have sprung up
from the next generation
of loving fathers and mothers
with their darlings-- they'll have
their own adventures,
misdeeds, and conquerings.

But they won't have
what we had…
A simpler time
when we walked through our town
and claimed it all.

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this is nice. it's actually a theme i've thought of addressing as well when recently a friend sent me a link to this awesome site that had historic bird's eye views of Texas towns (even my Schulenburg!) from the late 1800's.

Zoom- I love looking at historical photos. Those were interesting drawings. They didn't even have a way of going up to get them and did it all with two point calculations.

I spent quite a while viewing everything I could find from San Francisco before and after the fires of 1906. I've also found some good sites for panoramas. My own home town (where I grew up that is) is a suburban community with very little historical significance- except to me I guess! It's funny to think of that, that I'm kind of a historian of the way things used to be in that little town!