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dgvarner
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since 2000-05-13

Posts 3552
High Springs, Florida

0 posted 2007-07-03 12:26 PM

PRICE TAGS

There were price tags
And price stickers
Black marks and rips
     Where prices had once been
There was gift wrap
And gift bags
And tissue paper
There was packaging around
Many wonderful things

And she handed me a paper sack

In it was a hand made card
     As some of the others had done
And a pinwheel on a stick
And a rock

A rock she had painted

Just for me

I watched as she looked on proudly
It was all she had
And she made it for me

A little paint and a smile
And it was the best gift I got
     For my birthday that year…

There was no price tag
     On my rock--
You just can’t put a price tag
     On a rock…

-dgvarner

The Lady
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since 2005-12-26

Posts 7634
The Southwest

1 posted 2007-07-03 10:48 PM

can't put a price tag on this kind of love either g

I enjoyed this so much

MarkG
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since 2007-06-21

Posts 48
California USA

2 posted 2007-07-04 12:32 PM

i loved this a lot...the best gift is from the heart not the store...right?

great write

Mark

aziza
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since 2006-07-09

Posts 2995
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3 posted 2007-07-04 01:21 AM

What a delightful poem. What a wonderful gift .. who knew a rock could contain so much, huh.

Love this,
A

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

4 posted 2007-07-04 07:03 AM

Nice...James

Kit McCallum

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since 2000-04-30

Posts 14774
Ontario, Canada

5 posted 2007-07-04 07:20 AM

Nothing can replace that kind of love DGVarner. This brought a smile as I read this ... along with the urge to call my mom up! Very much enjoyed. Nice to read you again!

Best wishes,
/Kit

dgvarner
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since 2000-05-13

Posts 3552
High Springs, Florida

6 posted 2007-07-04 12:41 PM

Hey guys! Thanks so much for reading! I'm so happy to get your replies

This was something I watched while at a birthday party for a friend of my 9yr old. She was so appropriate to the little girl who painted her a rock--I was moved by her gentleness with the situation...

It was an awesome rock...!

hugs, g

"...Never regret anything that made you smile..."

paullallady
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since 2007-04-03

Posts 262
Michigan

7 posted 2007-07-04 11:37 PM

what a lovely poem about the true meaning of love and giving.

SPIRIT
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since 2002-12-29

Posts 1745
California Desert

8 posted 2007-07-12 10:29 AM

PRICELESS!

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

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displaced

9 posted 2007-07-12 08:28 PM

I read this one earlier when you posted it but for whatever reason, I didn't say so

a touching story that will always be with me, thank you

Drauntz
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since 2007-03-16

Posts 2905
Los Angeles California

10 posted 2007-07-14 11:59 AM

a beauty and interesting image.

Klassy Lassy
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since 2005-06-28

Posts 2187
Oregon

11 posted 2007-07-14 02:09 PM

Oh! I got tears reading this! Pet rocks are the best things when special hearts and hands embellish them with love.

So glad you shared this. ~ K

Midnitesun

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Gaia

12 posted 2007-07-16 12:03 PM

being a rock hound, I love such gifts!

vlraynes
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since 2000-07-25

Posts 8229
Somewhere... out there...

13 posted 2007-07-18 02:52 AM

I know... I'm late...

but just wanted ya to know
that I was here... and I read...

and this made me smile...

especially loved the end...

"There was no price tag
On my rock--
You just can’t put a price tag
On a rock…"

makes me want a rock...

love ya, gale...

"When the power of love overcomes the love
of power the world will know peace."
--Jimi Hendrix

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