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hoot_owl_rn
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since 1999-07-05
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Glen Hope, PA USA

0 posted 1999-10-12 09:23 AM


Should Haves

If I could see with morning eyes
The glow upon your skin
If I could bring back all those things
You made me feel within
If I could whisper one more time
Softly in your ear
Or tell you all I should have said
While I had you near
If I could have seen right then
That you would go away
I would have given anything
Just to make you stay
I would have said those three words
No matter what the cost
But now my chance has ended
And those moments all are lost
I should have learned my lesson
And loved you from the start
Now you are gone and I’m left
With “should haves” and my broken heart

(Just something that came to me at work last night, not reflective of my present mood)

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Man can not discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

© Copyright 1999 Ruth Kephart - All Rights Reserved
Tara Simms
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since 1999-08-12
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Honea Path, SC USA
1 posted 1999-10-12 09:29 AM


Ruth, sounds like something I could've written. I should have told him when he was here, but I didn't. No broken heart, but plenty of regret over moments lost.

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It matters not how strait the gate;
How charged with punishments the scroll;
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
--W.E. Henley
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Peter
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since 1999-10-12
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2 posted 1999-10-12 10:21 AM


Your talent is superb, being able to just sit down with pen in hand and write like that at work.

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Peter

Dark Angel
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since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095

3 posted 1999-10-12 10:33 AM


wow Ruth, this is great, Well Done!

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What comes from the heart goes to the heart.
Samuel Coleridge



Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07
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Tamarac Fla
4 posted 1999-10-12 10:39 AM


Hoot,
Well done indeed.

Sunshine
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Listening to every heart
5 posted 1999-10-12 10:41 AM


Always write when the mood strikes - a great motto to live by. Well done, Ruth!
Pepper
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since 1999-08-19
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Southern Florida
6 posted 1999-10-12 10:47 AM


another Well Done Hoot......

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May your days be filled with lots of sunshine and your nights lit up by golden moonbeams

hoot_owl_rn
Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA
7 posted 1999-10-12 10:56 AM


Tara...I'm glad you had the courage to say it if not in person, thank you

Peter...you remain one of my biggest fans, thanks. I find I need to write when the words come, no matter where that might be

Dark Angel, Seymore and Pepper...thank you very much

Sunshine...I couldn't agree more, thanks

Watcher666
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since 1999-10-13
Posts 1606

8 posted 1999-10-13 05:10 AM


Lovely poem Dear Lady!

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Illusion...what we see and what we do...it's all up to you.

Severn
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since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704

9 posted 1999-10-15 02:03 AM


Missed this before! Wonderful, Ruth and probably quite true for many unfortuante people.
hoot_owl_rn
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Glen Hope, PA USA
10 posted 1999-10-15 03:43 AM


Thank you watcher and Severn
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