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broker6
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0 posted 2000-01-02 02:41 PM


Fallow Soil
by ©Richard Budig, 1999


Giving love is no assurance
it will be returned.
The rule, then, ought to be:
Wait ‘til it grows in them,
and if it fails to sprout there,
be glad your heart was fallow
to such a delicate plant.


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Pepper
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1 posted 2000-01-02 04:07 PM


Very thought provoking Broker and most eloquently stated...
I like this alot...  

 A soul that writes from the heart and shares it, truly gives a gift extraordinaire!
Shannon



Denise
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2 posted 2000-01-02 04:09 PM


I agree! Beautifully done!

 Denise


Severn
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3 posted 2000-01-02 06:12 PM


Echoing the above...  

 ...I am not a painter, I am a poet... F. O'Hara

Echo Rhayne
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since 1999-09-17
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Canyon Country, CA
4 posted 2000-01-04 02:43 AM


Beautiful Broker!!


 ~*~ ^i^ ~*~ Love is such a lonely art, and death is but a taste. Minds are merely instruments that often go to waste! ~*~ ^i^ ~*~

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