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RMW
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since 2001-03-21

Posts 1424

0 posted 2001-06-01 10:52 AM

The Corsage

June;
And the modest occasion
Of a high school prom;
And a young man
Schooled enough
To charm a mother
By observing
A family resemblance;
And a father,
Trojan-like
Behind his Wall Street Journal,
Watching
The bosom of his daughter
Respond
To the entry
Of something foreign.

RMW

Sunshine

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

1 posted 2001-06-01 10:55 AM

....some 32 years past, and I can still pull that first one out of the book....

and there is still a fragrance....

what a wonderful memory you've rekindled, in the giving of that first corsage...

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

2 posted 2001-06-01 10:58 AM

Bob..this is such a memory teaser..and I love the scene you have painted with just a few words. Was it a gardenia, perhaps?

RMW
Senior Member

since 2001-03-21

Posts 1424

3 posted 2001-06-01 10:59 AM

Sunshine and Martie....Smiles...and thank you. Bob

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Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-06

Posts 8369
Deep in the heart

4 posted 2001-06-01 10:59 AM

Well done. Hard to restrain oneself, no? I required wrist corsages

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

Sven

Member Laureate

since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

5 posted 2001-06-01 01:05 PM

this one made me chuckle Bob. . .

well done. . .

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To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world.

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

6 posted 2001-06-02 12:52 PM

RMW~
Like Karilea ... I still have the first corsage
and fortunate enough to still have the friendship of
'a young man
Schooled enough
To charm a mother'

Wonderfully nostalgic.
~*Marge*~

~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
noles1@totcon.com

brian madden
Member Elite

since 2000-05-06

Posts 4374
ireland

7 posted 2001-06-02 04:42 PM

wonderfully penned poem, beautifully crafted in so few words.

"difference between love and comfortis that comfort's more reliable and true
Brutal and mocking but always therea crutch for enmity's saddest glare"

Severn
Member Rara Avis

since 1999-07-17

Posts 7704

8 posted 2001-06-02 05:47 PM

Wow - wonderful...you know, I really enjoy your poetry Bob...

K

It is to do with tree-ferns:
mamuka, pongo, wheki.
Shelter under here is so easily understood.
From 'Hope', by Dinah Hawkins

Irish Rose
Member Patricius

since 2000-04-06

Posts 10263

9 posted 2001-06-02 05:56 PM

how wonderfully true.

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

10 posted 2001-06-03 12:13 PM

Wow, this is written so well, it evokes the emotions and thoughts or every member involved...especially Dad's. heh heh heh!

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

11 posted 2001-06-13 02:35 PM

Ah... was the father you?
(chuckling)

Sometimes the words paint the image and sometime the image paints the words...

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