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The Keepsake Valentine
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The Keepsake Valentine |
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Word Weaver Member
since 2011-03-06
Posts 437California, USA 
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The Keepsake Valentine "Today I want all of you to make a Valentine for someone special." The teacher enthusiastically said. With craft paper, lacy paper doilies, white paste, color pencils, and child's craft scissors, to work we went with designs rambling around inside innocent heads. Valentine's Day was that day and hurry we must. The room as silent as it had ever been. Little minds, suddenly creative, were diligently intent on their task. Bobby Baker cut his paper into the shape of a heart, glued it onto the doilie and wrote: "Marsha Ann Will You Be My Valentine?" When the time came he handed it across the aisle to me. I didn't care that he misspelled my first name, and left the "e" off the end of the second, because that day, I knew Bobby Baker loved me. Suddenly a mean boy grabbed my treasured Valentine, ran around the room yelling over and over (please someone make him stop) "Bobby Baker loves Marcia Anne and he don't know how to spell." Over and over he yelled it until the teacher put him back in his seat... kerplop!!! Then Bobby Baker looked at me and said, "You're stupid! You're ugly! I hate you!" while the others mimicked him with much glee. But I didn't care what they said, or how many times they said it, 'cause on that special Valentine's Day my wish had come true and I knew... if only for a little while, Bobby Baker loved me. © Marcia Miller-Twiford |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Aw, this is cute, my friend. Didn't expect what I got as I read the poem, and that is the excitement about this type of poetry. When I thought it was all hearts and flowers, like life, it threw me a curve. Good stuff, Marsha Ann. ~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~ |
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Word Weaver Member
since 2011-03-06
Posts 437California, USA |
Hi, When you say, "I threw you a curve," that tells me I did a good jog. Thank you Jerry. Marcia Anne |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
I knew your name was Marcia Anne. Actually I didn't know about the Anne part of it. ~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~ |
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Word Weaver Member
since 2011-03-06
Posts 437California, USA |
Life would be a lot easier if Mom had spelled it as it's pronounced (Marsha) but she was reading a novel during the last days of her pregnancy and named me for the main character. I'm amazed at the different ways people pronounce Marcia. The most common is Marseeahh. Geez. |
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Klassy Lassy Member Elite
since 2005-06-28
Posts 2187Oregon |
...So true to life and the embarrassment children go through when some little twirp begins to tease. It's still a perfect moment, though, when you know that underneath it all, someone you like, likes you back, and there is an inner child still there in most adults who hopes feelings are mutual.   What a Valentine's Day memory! |
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since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
I'd be willing to bet Bobby Baker still loves you to this day! Loved this..  |
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ebonygirl Member Elite
since 2011-07-14
Posts 2000California U.S.A |
So enjoyed your poem, brought up memories of my own school days. Ms. E |
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Nicole Senior Member
since 1999-06-23
Posts 1835Florida |
Ahh childhood... sometimes the sweet and the bitter go together. Kids can be cruel, but I'm glad to see that this had a happy ending. |
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Daddy Goose38 Member
since 2010-09-04
Posts 430obama's a rice paper tiger |
And mine wasn't on the 14th but the morning of the 13th. Because my clinician took an hour and a half in the middle of a busy work week just to take me out to breakfast! She even had coffee for me ritht there there in the office, and was it warm enough? ... and she could micro wave if it if it wasn't, as if she just couldn't wait til we were finished to get down there! And for an hours and a half, as though there were nothing better to do, in the middle of a very busy work day. And they I knew that she wanted me to be more than just another patient. What a dear friend she will always be to me, even if we should never email or ever talk again. And of course I wrote a poem about her on Pip. Like how often does your busy, married doctor ask you out to dinner after a surgery??? Jaime quiet with Ginny |
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katahdin Senior Member
since 2010-07-01
Posts 1196ME. In the Shadow of the Mt. |
Wonderful childhood memory of love. Enjoyed! Kat >^..^< |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
Ah, those childhood memories. They make such wonderful poems. Ida |
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EmmaRose Senior Member
since 2011-03-02
Posts 1376Midwest |
Such sweetness and innocense wrapped in your words, lovely  |
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