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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla 
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Slow down Slow down and sense your life bouquet For wasted time your loss. And do not stare and dream the day Or it will turn to moss Use the present it has not set The past has flown and gone. The future has no life as yet It waits its moments dawn. Just feel the presence of the day Hear its life all around. It's there to hear in every way In the sky and on ground. Slow down make time, hold out your hand And seek the touch of store. Slow down make use your hours sand Before there is no more. It's in the wind each moving breeze It echoes like a fife. It plays the limbs of swaying trees It is the sound of life. Slow down and sense your life bouquet For all our feet are made of clay. |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
Slow down make time, hold out your hand And seek the touch of store. Slow down make use your hours sand Before there is no more. It's in the wind each moving breeze It echoes like a fife. It plays the limbs of swaying trees It is the sound of life. Slow down and sense your life bouquet For all our feet are made of clay. ============================= and I do so love the footprints your feet of clay leave on me heart  once again your wisdom gives us a lesson of life wrapped in rhyme divine. *ww*  meWe wish ourselves beautiful, |
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Lady In White
since 2001-02-12
Posts 2799USA |
A wonderful bouquet to start this day thank you Sy for wending this way.... |
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angelbear Member
since 2001-05-22
Posts 139North East, USA |
You express in this poem what I try so hard to live... Reminds me of something my Father wrote before he passed away.. Once a boy looked at a mountain and he dreamed that he could climb yet the mountain trembled and replied "Take your time" But the boy had to climb to the highest peak just because the mountain was there and a howling wind, made his legs grow weak, but the mountain didn't care. Now he's burried on the mountain and his epitapth subline reads: "here lies a man who climbed to fast but now at last, He takes his time" a bit more gloomy but same theme...great poem you wrote. Until you are are near it, you will never see it, until you live it you will never know it...this is why we must not judge it. |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
JM, You know if you slow down enough you wind up in dream. And that's where I think I am at the moment. Full circle. Winkiewinkie Stinky Lady, Thank you to a sweet lady. *L* |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Angelbear, Your poem surpasses mine a wonderful response. Thank you. |
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VAS Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450Oregon |
Wonderful advice poetically ascribed! |
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Rain Junior Member
since 2001-05-23
Posts 21Atlanta, GA |
A very encouraging message. Well written, and so very true. |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
This is very beautiful, Seymour... and it's wisdom I should heed. *S* |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
VAS, Thank you my friend. Rain, Thank you for the wonderful comment. Suthern, What ever you do you will always come up swelling roses. *L* Sy |
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angelbear Member
since 2001-05-22
Posts 139North East, USA |
Thank you for the words on my reply. My Father wrote that poem before he died in 1986. Much of what I admired about him was in his writing... Your poem seemed to bring it all back!  |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Angelbear, It is an honor for my words to bring back his. Bless you. |
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Kay Member
since 2001-04-13
Posts 70 |
Loved that first line and all the rest too! Kay |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Kay, Thank you so much for the read and comment. |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
I needed this....today..... |
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Poeminister Senior Member
since 2000-02-26
Posts 1862Regina SK; Canada |
Rede most eloquently penned. Enjoyed very much. Poeminister "At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet." -Plato |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Sunshine, Thanks for digging this up. *L* Poeminister, Thanks for the stop by and nice comment. |
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BloomingRose Member Elite
since 2000-08-09
Posts 3092Florida |
Yes! Slow down and take the time to really live. Great message. BloomingRose |
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sodpossom Senior Member
since 2001-06-15
Posts 723N.C |
Very beautiful with a nice message!Enjoyed it! |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
BloomingRose, Thank you for the nice comment. Sudpossom, Glad you enjoyed, thanks for the read. |
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Irish Rose Member Patricius
since 2000-04-06
Posts 10263 |
this calmed me down  "This rose has seen red, I have been blue |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Irish, Thank you and I enjoyed your comment. |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Nice writing Seymour...James |
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