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Kethry
Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-29
Posts 9082
Victoria Australia

0 posted 2000-08-15 07:19 AM


I'm collecting hugs today
part payment of the debt
for the years I sheltered you
from bitterness, regret
for the years of sacrifice
ere you were not yet grown
I'm harvesting your love today
for life's seeds I've sown.

I'm collecting smiles today
I have none of my own,
and a smile from a stranger
can make me less alone
and if a stranger, soon a friend
can by a smile be known
then I'm collecting sad, sweet smiles
to make them all my own.

I'm collecting hugs and smiles
to help me feel my worth
from friends and close acquaintances
and from all the children, fostered and by birth
when I'm done collecting
these hugs and all these smiles
hopefully they'll measure
your love for yards and miles.



"It is the image in the mind that links us to lost treasures;
but it is the loss that shapes the image,
gathers the flowers weaves the garland."-

© Copyright 2000 Lynne Dale - All Rights Reserved
Professor Gloom
Member Elite
since 2000-07-23
Posts 3082
of Depression
1 posted 2000-08-15 07:24 AM


I'm sure what you have sown earlier,
Will return to be harvasted,
as words place so well,
harvasted us all a bit of poetry,
for our eyes to feast upon.

Gloom

Marge Tindal
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since 1999-11-06
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Florida's Foreverly Shores
2 posted 2000-08-15 07:41 AM



Kethry~
Let me be
Among the first
To pay you
What you're worth !

*HUGS* ~HUGS~ *HUGS* ~HUGS~ *HUGS*

~*Marge*~



~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
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Kethry
Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-29
Posts 9082
Victoria Australia
3 posted 2000-08-15 07:52 AM


Marge, thank you. You are my idea, your poetry sings and soars and your comments always make me feel as if I am worthy.
Be well
Kethry

"It is the image in the mind that links us to lost treasures;
but it is the loss that shapes the image,
gathers the flowers weaves the garland."-

RainbowGirl
Member Elite
since 1999-07-31
Posts 3023
United Kingdom
4 posted 2000-08-15 10:51 AM


And I've always got plenty of HUGS to give ..     and smiles..

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them."


Mark Bohannan
Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-21
Posts 7269
In the winds of Cherokee song
5 posted 2000-08-15 11:22 AM


Hugs and smiles in abundance here...take all you need....your poetry is so refreshing and so full of honesty....I will be back more to pay you more of my in-DEPT-ednes to you.

      


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