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Huan Yi
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0 posted 2011-12-28 12:24 PM


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It’s cold we’re old
And don’t want
To go outside

The cats sit
On the window sill
Content at peace
Perfectly comfortable
Watching the cars go by

What after all
Is there for us to see
Not seen before
In some degree
Enough to know
No second going
Will bring epiphany
Or make it somehow
More worthwhile

So let us here
Quietly by an inner fire
Make a world as if all
Our better dreams came true

And now all there’s left
For us to do is wait again
For an April moon


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JL
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1 posted 2011-12-28 02:23 PM


That third stanza makes the reflection.
Enjoyed your write.

JL

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Maranatha!

Margherita
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2 posted 2011-12-29 09:51 AM


A familiar scene! You say it very well and through your words, I hear my husband's voice ...

Margherita

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3 posted 2011-12-31 12:07 PM


I read this the other day and did not have time to reply, but I did save it.  This is my favorite poem of yours that I have read.  It really touches me.

Alison

Huan Yi
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4 posted 2011-12-31 12:18 PM


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Thank you all
especially you Alison


John


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