Saturday, February 14, 2009

Love Letters & Love Notes...Revisited

Enrico Carusso....I believe that is the name of an old Spanish Opera Singer. My Mom had very old clay records she would play on the Victrola of his. When I say that name, I kind of roll on the R's & I like the way it sounds. I first said that name in 3rd grade.
3rd grade, 1975, saw a move & change of schools, which can always be good or bad. In My World, this move could have been better. I didn't like the wide paved roads as much as the small brick road we had lived on. The neighborhood didn't have all the mature fruit trees & old Oak trees that I was used too. The school was bigger & there weren't as many kids in the neighborhood to play with. Actually, there was probably more kids...but these guys played inside & I rarely saw them.
I met a boy in class & he befriended me. He would walk me to the corner of my street & then go back to go home himself. At the corner, often eating candy or popsicles from the ice cream man, we'd talk. I told him about my old neighborhood, the brick roads, the floating docks & canoes, the orange trees & banana trees and of course, The Big Old Oak Tree. Before moving here, I thought every neighborhood had a Big Old Tree. He told me about His World. How his Momma didn't speak good English & his grandmother lived with them & his father worked hard & about who he liked & didn't like at school. I never invited him to my house...we would meet each other at the corner & say good bye at the corner.
Except one day he just stayed at the corner and I didn't realize it as I walked on. I was about 1/2 way to the house & he came running up behind me. When he caught up with me, he handed me a note & said 'The Big Old Oak Tree...even though I've never seen it.' I took the note, it was tightly folded up into a football & asked what he was talking about. He said, 'Read that when you get home & you'll understand,' and then he turned and ran! I held the note, fumbling it between my fingers, as I watched him dash away. I finally turned and walked a few steps before tucking it into my pocket.

Arriving home, I promptly forgot about the note. It wasn't until bedtime, when I was hashing over the days events in my head, that I remembered the note. My sister & I shared the room next to my parents & the whole house was asleep. I quietly got up & retrieved the note from my crumpled up pants. I turned on the light to my sisters vanity mirror. Hunched in towards the light, I read my note. This is what it said...
"My Dearest & Most Beautiful Paiger~
I would like to kiss you as many times as there are leaves on the tree. I Love You. ~ Enrico Caruso"
Short, thoughtful, passionate, romantic, to the point & filled with lustful desire, this was a true love note...

(This post was originally written almost 3 years ago, but I thought I might bump it back up for Valentines Day...Much Love People)

7 comments:

Oceanshaman said...

Funny how those little expressions of sincere desire can leave us breathless :) . . .

Mel said...

Loving and lovely.

Enrico Carusso....musta been a passion for more than one woman. I remember the records......

(((((( SLB )))))

And today, when I go to the big oak tree...I'll think of you. :-)

Dee said...

That is awesome!

skinnylittleblonde said...

Oceans... words absorbed by the mind can be like paint on canvas, taking one places limited only by the imagination. This kid was quite the Romeo & I can only imagine how he paints his words now-a-days.

(((Mel)))Lol, I cannot believe that you remember those records. Most folks have never even seen clay albums, nor do they know who Enrico Caruso is. Hahaha...too funny. My Enrico was indeed a ladies man, even in the third grade. Hahaha, he dumped me for a girl named Abby, dumped her for me etc., until I moved away.

Dee...Yup, LoL, probably one of the most romantic things ever, even though I might not have fully realized it then. I remember looking at a tree the next day in the yard & wondering just how many leaves were in it. hahahaha. Oh! And BTW, Sister Kimbies found that note & teased me to no end! Hahaha...too funny!

The CEO said...

Thanks for the poem. I never asked before, I was a high risk taker. Note to self, work on being more romantic.
p&l,
Monty

Anonymous said...

Aw, how cute. :)

skinnylittleblonde said...

CEO...hahaha, well the problem with trying to be romantic is that 99% of communication is interpretation and it's really hard to predict how someone else may take what you say or do.

Anne... yeah, twas cute ;)