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jwesley
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0 posted 2012-11-03 11:56 PM




And Love You All Over Again
(from Faces of Love)


Years ago,
a long time past,
I carved my name on a tree.

Sometime later I carved yours,

and we both went away.

I forgot where we had stood
in the beam of sun
we named our own,
and said the words that bound us.
I forgot, you,
until the day you send a box
with part of a tree,
precisely carved,
that had fallen and died.

I dug your picture
out of the farthest reaches of a drawer,
at the bottom of my dresser,
under everything,
hidden, forgotten, gone.

Many years ago
you looked like this,
and I,
standing next to you,
looked like that.

We loved,
but weren't lovers.
We kissed, we hugged,
did all the little things
people in love do,

but we weren't lovers.

Until today,

when I received a box,
with part of a tree
that had fallen and died,
and a note
that made me cry,

and love you
all over,
again.


©wesley james beard, jr.
   september, 2012

[This message has been edited by jwesley (11-04-2012 12:35 AM).]

© Copyright 2012 Wesley James Beard, Jr. - All Rights Reserved
latearrival
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1 posted 2012-11-04 12:14 PM


This is so sweet.Love it.jo
JerryPat2
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2 posted 2012-11-04 05:13 AM


Damn, J, you came close to making an old hard-nosed old man blubber.

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

Lori Grosser Rhoden
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3 posted 2012-11-04 07:19 AM


Put a lump in my throat too J!


    lori

2islander2
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4 posted 2012-11-04 10:49 AM


so sweet, thanks a lot, a gorgeous idea,

yann

Victoria
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5 posted 2012-11-04 02:13 PM


Very touching J...as always. I love your Faces of Love poems.

~Victoria~


A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
- Paul Valery (1871-1945)

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6 posted 2012-11-04 06:09 PM


I find this taking me back to a place only soulmates know of. I love it.

My spirit will rise
above the sea~
There will be no drowning
of my soul or me~

EmmaRose
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7 posted 2012-11-05 08:59 AM


Your writing reminds of how we are one with nature, how two lives are eternally woven within the life cycle of that special tree.

I enjoyed this very much.

Victoria
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8 posted 2012-11-05 02:37 PM


I had to write in the pavement since I grew up in the city, not too many trees.
Enjoyed reading J. The pavement weighs too much to mail ha.

~V~

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
- Paul Valery (1871-1945)

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9 posted 2012-12-14 11:50 AM


This may be your best series... every one reaches deeper into my heart! *S*
JamesMichael
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10 posted 2012-12-17 11:11 PM


Delicious...James
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