We Missed Our Opportunity, Ingrid

How to Join	Member's Area	Private Library	Search	Sanctuary		Login
Main Forums	Discussion	Tech Talk	Mature Content	Archives	A home without a wall, Our haven without ends, A circle we all call Our Family of Friends!

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

0 posted 2011-04-12 10:26 PM

We missed our opportunity, Ingrid

I wish I had know you better
We always said we would

Meet for lunch
Have coffee
Spend some time
And laugh

We should have
Because now you are gone

It’s not like I knew you
As well as I could have
Should have, or wish I had
There always seems to be time

You went ahead and changed that
Now I simply wish
I had known you better

But, we missed our opportunity, Ingrid

-

Alison

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius

since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

1 posted 2011-04-12 10:43 PM

I can so identify with this Alison. There is much to be said for seizing the moment, because sometimes tomorrow never comes.

Thank you for this sweet sentiment~

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

2 posted 2011-04-12 10:55 PM

I couldn't say it better than Blues.
xoxoAlison
Lori

dreamgal
Member

since 2011-03-17

Posts 442

3 posted 2011-04-12 11:05 PM

That is always a regret i think universally for everyone at one time in there life.
Good write and message in this Allison.

Dreamgal
*smiles*

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

4 posted 2011-04-13 09:24 AM

Memory is an overwhelming part of the spirit living on, my friend, and you have caused Ingrid's to glow with radiance. A heart that cannot miss another, or not feel that more could have been done, is one further gone than the spirit one remembers. If one could feel, or do everything they wish they could have – then that one would be God.

If there is truly such a thing as 'beyond', then your and her souls still glow where they touch and remember.

Love is written many ways, my friend, and this piece was one.

j.

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

5 posted 2011-04-13 07:15 PM

there is always regrets when people go, you said it gracefully and with beauty alison, it makes me sad too.

yann

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

6 posted 2011-04-13 10:06 PM

The opportunities that one misses
in life, can at times be

catastrophic, but only if
we had that crystal ball....

otherwise, we imagine greatly
at the chances at glances and then
somewhat romances....

but when we blink, and they are gone
there lies

the memories that never were.

Good stuff, Ali.

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

7 posted 2011-04-13 11:56 PM

Touching write with so much truth to it, Ali.
Ida

Dark Stranger
Member Patricius

since 2001-03-19

Posts 13631
West Coast

8 posted 2011-04-14 06:29 AM

now I read this as ingraft...damn costco glasses anyway..enjoyed you little one

EmmaRose
Senior Member

since 2011-03-02

Posts 1376
Midwest

9 posted 2011-04-14 07:32 AM

You put that thought many of us have to good poetry. Sorry bout your loss

ken206573
Member

since 2008-10-14

Posts 487

10 posted 2011-04-15 02:09 PM

I can relate with my grandparents. I missed them. Very touching poem indeed.

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

11 posted 2011-04-15 02:45 PM

I read this the other day and really thought I had commented - it's that age thing again. Alison, a most touching write tinged with the sadness we all feel at the times of loss. You have expressed it very well.

Helen

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

12 posted 2011-04-15 07:19 PM

I am dashing around trying to pack for a trip and am leaving tonight. Thank you all for yout comments and for sharing your thoughts.

xoxoxo
Alison

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

13 posted 2011-04-16 02:30 AM

Alison, I would imagine you will only see this when you get back from your trip.

I didn't know Ingrid either. I don't know who she is, nor anything about her, but this has my tears flowing - because of your loss, because of Ingrid's loss, because of your beautiful poem superb in its exquisitely sensitive, sincere and simple form (I am not going to apologise/explain what I mean by "simple" - I KNOW you will know what I mean) and because since Flicka, and subsequently Daisy then Tigger, went to Heaven, I truly know what loss is - and whether it is of somebody one never really knew, or one's spouse, or one's animal of any kind, it hits me hard in the solar plexus.

Please tell us about your trip Alaskan.

Owl

[This message has been edited by OwlSA (04-16-2011 12:04 PM).]

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

14 posted 2011-04-17 06:44 AM

Dear Alison, your words touch the heart in a delicate yet also gripping way. How often we miss such opportunities! I am sorry it happened to you and Ingrid! I think her soul in flight up there inspired you to write this for us to ponder.

Thank you!

Love and hugs,
Margherita

Martie

Moderator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

15 posted 2011-04-17 03:54 PM

Alison...Life is full of missed opportunities...most of them we don't even know about. If I were Ingred I would feel how special it really is to be missed in such a way.

Word Weaver
Member

since 2011-03-06

Posts 437
California, USA

16 posted 2011-04-17 04:34 PM

When it comes to a friend or a loved one there's always much left unfinished. It's inevitable. We always think there's plenty of time. I've learned the hard way that generally there isn't. You've written about this subject exquisetly and I loudly applaud your talent.

Namaste,
Marcia

	⇧ top of page ⇧
All times are ET (US). All dates are in Year-Month-Day format.