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When I grow up...
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When I grow up... |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA 
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When I grow up... ...I want to be a librarian and lose myself behind horned rimmed glasses and stacks of periodicals. I want to lock the doors and close out the world; to study from the masters themselves. I want to eat lunch with Shakespeare and Tolstoy and have tea with Browning and Frost as each night Kipling lulls me to sleep with his tales. I want to dream the adventures found among the pages and sleep on mounds of books hoping to absorb just a fraction of the knowledge held within. I want to study history through the eyes of those who witnessed its passing; spilling ink into words on fine parchment paper so that lost blood was not wasted. I want to love as deep as the poets whose verses resound between guilded covers that sit under layers of dust high upon the shelves. I want to laugh, to cry, to read until my eyes grow weary and the child in me once more believes there’s a whole new world just beyond the looking glass. I am nothing special...and my name will soon be forgotten,but I've loved another with all my heart and soul,and to me,this has always been enough.~N.S |
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myheart Member
since 2004-11-05
Posts 160lost in your eyes |
When I grow up... I want to be able to write something even half as wonderful as this piece! |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
Ruth, join the growing crowd. Well said, loved it. |
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Susan Member Ascendant
since 2004-03-27
Posts 5104walking the surreal |
Thank the heavens for the written word - I too could lose myself in their haven - Enjoyed this - Susan Happiness isn't something that happens to you, it's created from within you. Joy is a state of mind. |
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kaile
since 2000-02-06
Posts 5146singapore |
and the child in me once more believes there’s a whole new world just beyond the looking glass. i found it kinda sad how this note of cynicism pulls the reader back to reality. |
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Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
HootieGal~ Well ... you'd be good at anything you tried~ No doubt in my mind about that ! Delaney plays Librarian a lot ... she likes the part about collecting a $fine$ for not bringing your book back on time~  *Huglets*  ~*Marge*~ ~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost, |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
this is cute but kinda sad too for some reason to me |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
Dear friends, Thanks for your replies to this piece. It's no wonder several of you found it to be "sad in a way" as it was meant to be a reflective piece to express the longing for childish innocence again. Somewhere along the way we all grow up and in that growing we give up believing that dreams can come true, that there are other worlds out there,that great truth is found in fairy tales, that change can happen...guess I'm just longing for a bit of all of those things. Hugs  Ruth I am nothing special...and my name will soon be forgotten,but I've loved another with all my heart and soul,and to me,this has always been enough.~N.S |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Yea... what you said. |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Ruth Me too! |
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*Alli4000*
since 2004-03-21
Posts 3188The World of Poetry |
"I want to laugh, to cry, to read until my eyes grow weary and the child in me once more believes there’s a whole new world just beyond the looking glass." Love that ending...I loved the entire poem actually. It's headed for my library!  ~Alli~ *:.AIM = Alli4000.:* My Journal |
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zenny Member
since 2002-11-24
Posts 371Belgium |
Beautifull write! You brought me back to the times I had to write these things.. When I grow up I want to able to write such masterpieces as you do! |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
Having read this it made me really smile because I realized I did get to be just exactly what I wished for when I was young. Beautiful work Ruth, and something tells me you are never going to grow up (or part of you that's for sure,) and that is wonderful! Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing. |
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