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Irish Rose
Member Patricius
since 2000-04-06
Posts 10263


0 posted 2002-01-06 03:47 PM


I have slowly gathered
a coral spray of stones.
But soon, they will breathe into rosette buds
and they will be alive.

They will be alive in contentment, alive
in grace and truthfulness.
I believe they will cry out, speak
in tones that sing from now mute
salt whispers through a mist
within my mind.

I hold them, one by one,
I treasure them all,  for you see
they were once dead, eroded from pale bitterness,
they shall cast off foam and lime
revealing their true colors.

They will hold truth and all who touch them,
hear them, see them will know, that
the stones that now lay shallow
across the lips to my soul,
will one day,
one day,
blossom.

Kathleen--
Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul.
Only kindness can do that. ~Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire~

© Copyright 2002 Kathleen - All Rights Reserved
ellie LeJeune
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since 2000-01-10
Posts 4156
King of Prussia, PA USA
1 posted 2002-01-06 04:06 PM


Oh, Kathleen, how enchanting is the Hope and beauty of your heart! ...and blossom they will!  Love, ellie

A friend hears the song in my heart, and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Trillium
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since 2001-03-09
Posts 12098
Idaho, USA
2 posted 2002-01-06 07:20 PM


Kathleen:  they are blossoming even as you write!

Betty Lou Hebert

Mother_Earth
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since 2000-11-20
Posts 1370
1/2 year Texas & 1/2 year Michigan
3 posted 2002-01-06 07:41 PM


Irish Rose, beautiful words.  Life goes on in the blooming.  Lovely.......ME
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