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Lori Grosser Rhoden
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since 2009-10-10
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Fair to middlin' of nowhere

0 posted 2017-11-30 10:05 AM


Deep in the depths
of her battered heart
flickers a flame.
It gives little light
and even less warmth.
But it is enough
to keep her alive.
She can only muster
half rations of smiles
and flickers of laughter.
But it is enough
to keep her hanging in.
She writes by that light
when she is all alone
and her thoughts
are her own.
It gives her comfort
and her little flame blazes.
It warms her all over
her lonely places.


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Bluesy Socrateaser
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since 2002-11-07
Posts 2417
In The Mirror
1 posted 2017-11-30 12:10 PM


Warm in the light of day, a warm, soft glow in the night, thou flickering flame...


                

...just bein' Bluesy

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere
2 posted 2017-11-30 12:18 PM


awe, how sweet! ~L
Bluesy Socrateaser
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Posts 2417
In The Mirror
3 posted 2017-11-30 11:58 PM


...you made me

...just bein' Bluesy

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