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# May Day
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/may-day/
- Published: 2022-05-01T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-05-01T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Today is my 39th wedding anniversary.
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Today is my 39th wedding anniversary.

Easy to remember, right? May Day?  
Never forget the flowers.

I have great memories of that day  
and of the many celebrations since,  
Three kids, four grandkids, and counting...

My earliest memory of May Day, though,  
comes from carrying the red flag  
for a few minutes, at a May Day  
parade. I was six or seven, and  
my grandmother, a card carrying Communist,  
was walking next to me, and she gave it to me.  
She was so proud, so proud...

This was more than fifty years ago  
back in Transnistria, which at that time  
was simply Moldova, but today might be  
next on the tyrant's checklist.

What a May Day it was.