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Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
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0 posted 2012-02-23 04:32 AM



Watching from afar now.
Watching a child
lost in those days of dreaming.
It was so easy to escape then,
to find that secret door,
open it and slip away
when no one was watching.
To hide in plain sight.
There but not there.

             Ida Werrett

© Copyright 2012 Ida Werrett - All Rights Reserved
JerryPat2
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1 posted 2012-02-23 06:00 AM


Beautifully inspired and created, Ida. Yes, a child can be anything he desires, that is the magic of you very young.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

jwesley
Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
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Spring, Texas
2 posted 2012-02-23 11:26 AM


Cool, my friend.  My memory is more of --- "you be there but not there!!"  Kind of the 'seen by not heard' philosophy.

Enjoyed

j.

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3 posted 2012-02-23 02:44 PM


Too often, I wished I wasn't there... but I love this look at a child's world and where their minds take them. *S*
OwlSA
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4 posted 2012-02-23 03:53 PM


Mmmm, Ida, takes me way back - and I love that.  Love your poem.

Owl

ebonygirl
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5 posted 2012-02-23 07:46 PM


It is such a privilege to watch a child at play, innocent, carefree, as  we once were...wonderful poem Ida.
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Member Rara Avis
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6 posted 2012-02-27 01:09 AM


I used to hide in plain sight behind a book.  Good poem, Ida.  

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