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JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

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South Louisiana

0 posted 2011-10-25 06:44 AM

I look at your picture and you look back,
My heart is wrapped within your deep warmth,
I send to you from afar gentle attachment.
Such a lovely face, cheerful is your smile,
It warms my old heart thought to be cold.
I drink from your portrait life's tender touch,
And thirst no more, you have quenched my need.
Within my wintry years you've given me spring,
And all this comes from a photograph of you.
As I stumble and ache toward tomorrow's morn,
When I think of you my heart is aflame.

©October 24, 2011 / Jerry Pat Bolton

~* If they give you lined paper, write the other way. ~*~

[This message has been edited by JerryPat2 (10-25-2011 09:54 AM).]

Lori Grosser Rhoden
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since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
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1 posted 2011-10-25 08:17 AM

This is warm and wonderful from your softer side.

my friend

Lori

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2011-10-25 08:24 AM

Morning, Lori. Yeah, I break down and go soft ever so often. Thanks for always being here.

~* If they give you lined paper, write the other way. ~*~

suthern

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since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

3 posted 2011-10-25 08:49 AM

This is absolutely beautiful, Jerry! *S* I love every line! *S*

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

4 posted 2011-10-25 09:05 AM

Thank you, suthern. I am very pleased you took to my poem this morning.

~* If they give you lined paper, write the other way. ~*~

Margherita
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since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

5 posted 2011-11-01 10:27 AM

I just commented on EA's new photo and then I saw your "Photograph", which is very lovely indeed. I am a "photo-fan" and so I do understand how it can affect us.

Enjoyed your soft side too here.

Margherita

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

6 posted 2011-11-01 10:36 AM

A photograph captures the essence of you, and in some cases it is seen in your smile. Thank you, Margherita.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write the other way. ~*~

Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

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7 posted 2011-11-02 06:05 PM

It's amazing the spell an old photograph can hold over a person. An enchantment that has the power to both warm one inside, yet inspire the worst of aching and fear.

Nice write.

Michael

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

8 posted 2011-11-02 06:12 PM

You are correct, Michael. I used to hang around Juarez, Mexico back in my young, wild days, and the Indian people that had mixed with the Spanish people wouldn't let you take their picture with a camera. They said it robbed them of their soul.

They will come back, come back again,
As long as the red earth rolls.
He never wasted a leaf or a tree,
Do you think he would squander souls?

Roniece Dawson-Bruce
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since 2000-01-29

Posts 5689
Sydney, Australia

9 posted 2011-11-07 07:01 AM

:-) ahh Jerr.. so beautifully expressed! Love your writing..

Bisous
RDB

Be kind at heart....for everyone you meet has their own battle to fight.........

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

10 posted 2011-11-07 07:05 AM

I just love it when you talk like that, Roniece. Heehee Thank you.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways ~*~

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