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1slick_lady
Member Ascendant

since 2000-12-22

Posts 6088
standing on a shadow's lace

0 posted 2001-06-11 11:31 PM

True Life Lessons

when I was six years old
I learned a lesson
one I will keep with me forever
forgetting it never
my grand pa was the president of the bank
as was his father before him
as I played on the porch beside him
he had agreed to take a meeting
with a local man
the man he spoke with
stood with his hat in his hands
clutching it with white knuckles
he spoke softly and slowly
but his voice kept floating in and out
I heard him speak of his family
and the land of his fathers
it was the first time in my life
I had seen a grown man cry
the two of them danced on the porch for awhile
then the man left
grand pa sweetly smiled and picked me up
and placed me in his lap
then said “girl, I just taught you a lesson
you will never forget
the true life’s lesson is…
how you hold people in your pocket”
kissed me on the forehead
then he put me back to play
grand pa… no disrespect but I disagree with you
it’s not about how you hold
people in your pocket
it’s how
you hold people in your heart

"...the rest is silence" (Hamlet) Shakespeare

Logan
Senior Member

since 2001-05-28

Posts 1641
Arkansas

1 posted 2001-06-12 12:04 PM

He did teach you the most valuable lesson of all, how to make up your own mind in what you believe, and what is in your heart...well said, well done...gentle smile

JLR
Senior Member

since 2001-02-04

Posts 1785

2 posted 2001-06-12 01:24 AM

Life's lessons...all in how you look at it. Your observation is the one I agree with. But I imagine we would be in the minority.

ethome
Member Patricius

since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

3 posted 2001-06-12 05:26 AM

The difference is he was a banker and you are a poet! I really enjoyed this and I have to say you got the lesson imbeded in your heart the right way!

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Irish Rose
Member Patricius

since 2000-04-06

Posts 10263

4 posted 2001-06-12 07:05 AM

excellent!

Kathleen Blake

"When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass,
and the sun drips honey."
Laurie Lee

g-hm
Member

since 2001-05-16

Posts 85

5 posted 2001-06-12 08:11 AM

Do unto others as you have them do unto you.
The heart is the key. It holds lifes greatest
treasures. You say it so nicely.

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

6 posted 2001-06-12 08:56 AM

very nice lesson to have learned.... nicely told and a read I will remember

Sven

Member Laureate

since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

7 posted 2001-06-12 01:11 PM

exactly. . .

well told helen. . .

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