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OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

0 posted 2011-02-25 05:06 PM

SMILES
25 February 2011

What happy-heart bliss it was,
on this rough-edged night,
to meander through
a daytime garden of flowers,
in unhurried contentment,
stopping here
and there
to meet with friends
of forget-me-not yesteryears
and snap-dragon todays
and primula tomorrows,
touching harmony
with honoured fingers,
and wrapping friendship
and encouragement
around me like a cloak,
offering solace to heart-aches
and celebrating delights
and being soft-graced
by the gift of heart-core vulnerabilities
of those so real and warm and alive
behind their cyberfaces,
that I could turn around
and find them smiling in wonder
at the splash of colour
and the sweet, sweet fragrances
in this blue-page garden
and know each one's name.

Owl

Spiros Zafiris
Senior Member

since 2002-10-20

Posts 982
Canada

1 posted 2011-02-25 07:19 PM

..how well captured, this garden of friends..!

..sp
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Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

2 posted 2011-02-25 07:35 PM

So glad to be a part of your lovely garden, Diana.
Ida

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

3 posted 2011-02-25 11:36 PM

Thank you, Spiros, and for being one of those friends. I had no Internet connection for 3 or 4 days and so it was lovely to be able to get back into Pip.

Ida, I am so glad you are a part of my garden of friends, too.

Owl

Nareena
Member

since 2011-02-17

Posts 51
BC, Canada

4 posted 2011-02-26 12:57 PM

Very enjoyable, thank you for sharing

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

5 posted 2011-02-26 01:00 AM

Thank you, Nareena, for being a snap-dragon today and a primula tomorrow. Smiles.

Owl

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

6 posted 2011-02-26 03:42 AM

Dear Diana, this is a superb gift, a beaitiful and heartbreaking message, I loved this poem a lot and made a delicious moment.

yann

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

7 posted 2011-02-26 04:14 AM

Thank you, Yann, for your lovely message and for being one of the friends in the poem.

Owl

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

8 posted 2011-02-26 10:23 AM

quote:
and wrapping friendship
and encouragement
around me like a cloak,
offering solace to heart-aches
and celebrating delights
and being soft-graced

You do KNOW the warmth of friendship, dear Diana, and you express its value so very beautifully.

Love,
Margherita

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

9 posted 2011-02-26 10:42 AM

Thank you for the heart-warming message, and for the wonderful friendship of Margherita and the perfect gift of the margheritas which are, of course, daisies, a symbol of my Daisy dog in Heaven!

Owl

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