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Lady In White
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0 posted 2001-10-19 11:15 AM




                        The Letter – Understanding – Part 8

                        A year passed, a second
                        then third, her child was a babe
                        no longer
                        her love for her husband
                        had grown, having blossomed
                        stronger

                        she was the talk of the town
                        widowhood would not
                        fit her
                        she kept her head held quite
                        high, although publicly
                        censured

                        She attended, as was her due
                        opera, plays, and
                        church
                        then every night, silently stand
                        beside the ever-white
                        birch

                        o’er the horizon she’d cast
                        green eyes, a nightly practice to
                        gaze
                        into the depths of ocean’s blue
                        and past the marine’s
                        gray haze

                        her child had oft times questioned
                        his father’s
                        whereabouts
                        as other times, at surf’s door
                        she would hear him verily
                        shout

                        “M’sir, m’father, my dear heart
                        ‘tis only a matter of days
                         before you return to your dear heart
                         to share with her loving ways”

                        she knew not how he knew it
                        to speak near his father’s
                        own words
                        though her heart was strengthened
                        she smiled each time
                        she heard

                        “M’sir, m’father, my dear heart
                        ‘tis only a matter of days
                         before you return to your dear heart
                         to share with her loving ways”

                        “Come back to me, my child”
                        she’d call to him
                        each day
                        “Come back to me, my love”
                        as winds carried her whispers
                        away

                        the townsfolk would simply hang
                        their heads, they could not
                        believe her love
                        until that one day came along
                        a note, wrapped upon
                        leg of a dove….



For Your Reading Pleasure,

Part 1  ~ /pip/Forum51/HTML/001258.html  

Part 2  ~ /pip/Forum51/HTML/001266.html  

Part 3  ~ /pip/Forum51/HTML/001453.html  

Part 4  ~  /pip/Forum51/HTML/001464.html  

Part 5  ~   /pip/Forum51/HTML/001574.html  

Part 6 ~    /pip/Forum51/HTML/001640.html  

Part 7 ~   /pip/Forum51/HTML/001661.html  


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1 posted 2001-10-19 11:23 AM


Nice story.  Now we wait for the next installment.
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2 posted 2001-10-19 07:05 PM


Interesting story...James
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3 posted 2001-10-19 07:11 PM


The plot thickens!  
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4 posted 2001-10-19 08:08 PM



Now I am hoping this is not the last note he wrote her - please don't let this be the last note he wrote     It can't be the last one he wrote because
I am not ready for this story to finish yet    
Oh, Lady In White this is simply wonderful.


~I always have time to listen to someone talking from their heart~


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5 posted 2001-10-19 08:33 PM


aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaa!!
I can't wait for part 9!!!   I am so loving this story,and you tell it so gracefully  

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6 posted 2001-10-19 08:38 PM


Lady, he has to come back to her
and their child!!
Maybe he has been held captive all these years
in prison somewhere or...who knows...
but he will return...
he really has to,
you know?  
He really must....
return.

Lady Ollyne
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7 posted 2001-10-19 08:58 PM


This Lady is enjoying,
the path yours takes...

Wonderful tale.

Lady Ollyne

"O, learn to read what silent love hath writ:
To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit"...Shakespeare

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8 posted 2001-10-19 09:35 PM


Oh my gosh......is there hope. Oh please let there be hope. STUNNINGLY MAGNIFICENT. I LOVE IT!!

Love I leave with you whether it is in your life now or yet the essense of your dreams.

rwood
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9 posted 2001-10-20 08:13 AM


I've been praying for this character! Hoping for her to be reunited...she has to see him through her devotion....

Sincerely,
Regina

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10 posted 2001-10-20 08:39 AM


Me thinks I've missed too much on Passions and needs to read this all in its entirety if this is only a fraction of the beauty in store  ....Lovely write
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11 posted 2001-10-20 09:20 AM




(jumps up and down in excitement) Oh my gosh, let there be love, let there be hope! (smiles) Oh my gosh, this is getting so exciting! (big hugggsssssss) I love them all, sweet lady! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet friend, thank you for sharing!

May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

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12 posted 2001-10-22 11:02 AM


This is excellent in it's own right... but a certain song is singing....

An-ti-ci-pay-ay-shun! *G*

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