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icequeen Senior Member
since 2001-12-09
Posts 633FL USA 
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Delicate and crinkled like thousand year old silk stored crushed in a drawer all these centuries past, her hands work quickly making ready for the day while remembering what seems was only yesterday she inhaled the same scents drifting into her morning... She picks up the twelve stalks of deep purple hyacinth blooms tying them together with pale pink baby rosebuds and tiny white lilies of the valley wreathed throughout with greenery that tumbles down to her lap and beyond to whisper across her feet Next comes elegant lace carefully chosen from the waist of her own wedding dress it is woven between the blooms a memory with its own cause to celebrate fifty-two times and bring the same wish for the young one today who will carry this bouquet to her waiting lover at the end of a rainbow Her something old is now something new made of dreams and from the flowers her own grandmother grew while telling stories of life to the little one by her side before her hands became delicate and crinkled like thousand year old silk stored crushed in a drawer all these centuries past |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
This poem is like a house of mirrors....image within image within image....beautifully conceived and excellently done. Life is what we make of it, yes, and life is also what it makes of us. ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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The Lady Member Rara Avis
since 2005-12-26
Posts 7634The Southwest |
"before her hands became delicate and crinkled like thousand year old silk" simply elegant and so meaningful |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
Caroline, wow! This brought back some memories...thank you  |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Beautiful images, Caroline. Nostalgia wears well within your hands. |
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Angel4aKing Senior Member
since 2006-09-27
Posts 1372USA |
to bring to life an age old gift that is inheritance.... ~~~kingsangel~~~ |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
And a Sixpence for her Shoe lovely poem serves fond memory and makes way for a new... |
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Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Caroline~ It is ALWAYS so good to see a friend ...~ This is a lovely piece of nostalgic word-silk~ *Huglets* ~*Marge*~ ~*The sound of a kiss is not as strong as that of a cannon, but it's echo endures much longer*~ |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
You paint as well with words, as Rockwell did with paint!!! Your word strokes are pure silk! Totally enjoyed ~ and envisioned.   EA |
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steavenr Member Elite
since 2003-11-17
Posts 4058 |
what a glorious word painting...your last stanza was a wonderful gem... "Her something old is now something new made of dreams and from the flowers her own grandmother grew while telling stories of life to the little one by her side before her hands became delicate and crinkled like thousand year old silk stored crushed in a drawer all these centuries past" very nicely done... |
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icequeen Senior Member
since 2001-12-09
Posts 633FL USA |
awww thanks, all!  I had no idea this would be so well received. I don't write often anymore, but the inspiration of a new member, lemonraindrops (in the teen forum), has helped me grab that longing to write again and drag the ink out of my pen. She is my niece, very talented, and I am so proud of her I could burst like a balloon. I hope that this is the beginning of more for 2007, and that my mind doesn't continue to shut down on me again! Thank you all for your responses. It means so much...more than you can know. |
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