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Remembering Karen
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Remembering Karen |
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Jaime Fradera Senior Member
since 2000-11-25
Posts 843Where no tyranny is tolerable |
Remembering Karen Okay, it happens to me every year about this time. Remembering Karen ... I can't stop doing this anymore than I can stop breathing. I will continue this mindless, little ritual every year until my end of life. My eyes mist over. Remembering Karen. The music of her bubbling and irreverent laughter. The way she had with words ... How she wanted to read to me her stuff, how that would never be. It was more than twenty years, and more than a thousand miles ago. It was because of her that I began to write. (And no, it got thrown away, didn't keep it. It wasn't really anything, just agonizing tears and heart-break hemorrhage. Just so you, reader, just so you would know who was responsible, the one who got me started doing this. We who fall in love are hopeless cases; no hope of ever climbing out of it again. And at the bottom is a trap door which, like a Nomarian cave, is really a portal to show us other worlds. When I write, I yearn to hear and see and know your world. And when you write what a wonderful, rare treat you offer me: I can actually forget my petty, little problems, my mundane and boring work-a-day concerns, and be with you. We can pass into each other's lives, and through our magically enchanted eyes, know the cosmic grandeur of creation, and hear celestial music from the harps of space. Do I have to wake up from this delicious dream? click, click, click, Sunny Girl, is it true what they say ... that there's no place quite like Kansas? |
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ThisDiamond Member Rara Avis
since 2002-02-22
Posts 9353Michigan, USA |
Wonderful Jaime, Many sharp, lingering lines here. I enjoyed your candor.  |
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Roniece Dawson-Bruce Member Ascendant
since 2000-01-29
Posts 5689Sydney, Australia |
Jaime... I do so enjoy your work.. love RDB Be kind at heart....for everyone you meet has their own battle to fight......... |
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Seoulair Senior Member
since 2008-03-27
Posts 807Seoul S.Korea |
Simply beautiful. |
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secondhanddreampoet Member Ascendant
since 2006-11-07
Posts 6394a 'Universalist' ! |
I assuredly must concur with the line: "We who fall in love are 'hopeless cases'(!)" interesting 'write!'...obviously a fine tribute to a very real someone as well! |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
A beautiful write, Jaime, one that Karen would undoubtedly cherish. |
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LindsayP Member Elite
since 2007-07-28
Posts 3410Australia, Victoria |
Avery poignant write this one Jaimie, sad but very well constructed. Enjoyed. Lindsay |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Enjoyed...its nice to have special ones in our lives...James |
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Alison
since 2008-01-27
Posts 9318Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy! |
Jaime, I am glad that Karen inspired you to start writing. You do it well and bring an interesting perspective to the poems that you share. Hugs, Alison |
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2islander2 Member Ascendant
since 2008-03-12
Posts 6825by the sea |
I enjoyed very much, love mixes a lot of things for the best...Difficulties to forget are real. yann |
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simon Member
since 2008-01-14
Posts 440London, England |
very fine indeed... |
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