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Just A Woman
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0 posted 2001-03-11 12:07 PM


Owing my allegiance to no one
I step into the day
listening to my own quiet thoughts
Reflections whispered and
sometimes answered

I tend the flowerbeds
soon to awake as the hint of spring
dances lightly on the still cool breeze

I have no needs
No wants
Other than my solitude
Enough memories to last a lifetime
and I accept each day
Enjoy the beauty it gives so graciously
and am thankful for having been blessed with the eyes
in which to see it


After years of searching, I have found I am nothing more, nothing less...I am in truth Just A Woman after all.

© Copyright 2001 Just A Woman - All Rights Reserved
catalinamoon
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1 posted 2001-03-11 12:43 PM


I like this, nicely done. An interesting concept to be through with needs, other than ones own company. Hard to get to this place for some of us.
Sandra

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2 posted 2001-03-11 12:49 PM


Well, we didn't have to wait long for more.
Like your style, J A W.
Enjoyed the quiet, unhurried sense of this.
Thanks for sharing.
Looking for more . . .

thecraig
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3 posted 2001-03-11 12:50 PM


Dear Just A Women, A true gift , Appreciating lifes natural flourishes
Katherine Chandler
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4 posted 2001-03-11 01:28 PM


A wonderful poem and a genuine way to live your life. I enjoyed the positive edge to this one very much.

Kate

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T S Eliot

Romy
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5 posted 2001-03-14 06:36 AM


Wow, what a great response to this challenge line!
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6 posted 2001-03-14 08:39 AM


Just a women,

Sounds like you are recently being placed into a situation that puts u alone after being with someone for a time.

I hope that the solitude brings you peace, for i feel the same, for this has happen to me also. But i also would love and hope that the one that has put me into the solitude you write here, comes back to the unity of the vows we made.

Enjoyed your write as i have all the writes u done since being here. For besides being blessed with the seeing of your memories, but the seeing or the words to place on paper/screen for us to read.



Bernie


Bernie Slicker

Allan Riverwood
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7 posted 2001-03-14 10:43 AM


I'm going to go and find this challenge.
Very nice job. It's good to give yourself enough credit to not owe your allegiance to anyone.
~Allan

If I had your eyes, I'd be blind. For I can only see out of my own. ~~Carly Van Dort


nakdthoughts
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8 posted 2001-03-14 10:49 AM


I have no needs
No wants
Other than my solitude


I wish I could say that..beautiful calmness to your words

~Wynter


"The worst prison would be a closed heart".
...Pope John Paul II



Just A Woman
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9 posted 2001-03-14 11:03 AM


Sandra - So very true. I attempt to be thankful for all I have, which is truly so very much, and not to get caught up in too many needs. Thank you for your comment!

Krawdad - Thank you! I appriciate that!

thecraig - So very very true. Thank you!

Kate - Thank you so much. I've enjoyed your writing also.

Romy - Thank you! I like the lines challenges, was a great idea.

BSlicker - Thank you for the compliment. Life can be, yes, a struggle - to find the lesson I guess of each difficulty. To learn from them. I hope you do also.

Allan - I will look forward to seeing your poem using this line. I really liked this one. Thank you!

Wynter - ONE day at a time! Thank you!

After years of searching, I have found I am nothing more, nothing less...I am in truth Just A Woman after all.

Sven
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10 posted 2001-03-14 07:46 PM


it's amazing what you can find back in those archives. . .

this is excellent. . . full of power and the realization of feelings. . .

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To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world.

Just A Woman
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11 posted 2001-03-14 08:03 PM


Thank you Sven! I kind of needed that tonight! You are most kind.

After years of searching, I have found I am nothing more, nothing less...I am in truth Just A Woman after all.

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