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JerryPat2
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0 posted 2013-06-12 07:02 AM


I am a troubled man
enormously so
by hazel eyes

I am lashed
by the iron-will softness
of her response

there is thunder
within her
reaction to the past

obscuring
what those hazel eyes struggle
to justify



~*~ A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.-John Burroughs ~*~

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Lori Grosser Rhoden
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1 posted 2013-06-12 09:10 AM


There is something deeply touching here, your style here accentuates it! Well done my friend.


Lori  

JerryPat2
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2 posted 2013-06-12 09:17 AM


Thank you very much, Lori, I am so glad you approved of my effort here.

~*~ A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.-John Burroughs ~*~

secondhanddreampoet
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3 posted 2013-06-12 09:43 PM


a most interesting 'write!'  
JerryPat2
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4 posted 2013-06-13 06:57 AM


Thanks, Bruce.

~*~ A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.-John Burroughs ~*~

Margherita
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5 posted 2013-06-13 01:23 PM


Intriguing, powerfully expressed, dear Jerry.

Margherita

"Love is the One who masters all things;
I am mastered totally by Love."
(Rumi)

JerryPat2
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6 posted 2013-06-13 01:34 PM


Thank you so much, Margherita, you thoughts are supremely gratifying.

~*~ A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.-John Burroughs ~*~

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