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Alison 
since 2008-01-27
Posts 9318Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy! 
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Your flowered hat invites a smile and an approach to peer under its brim. That is where true beauty awaits. It is in your trembling smile. It is in your softly faded blue eyes. You allow me, a stranger, to share a moment of friendship with you. You, a woman I see only every now and then. You, a woman, I am growing to love. No words exchanged. No words necessary. I see your centurion face, filled with memories of the girl you once were, and the girl you will forever be. Bright flowers speak for you and I hear them. I do hear them. - Alison |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Ahhh . . . Bright flowered hats affects me like lumpy oatmeal makes you! Heh.Heh . . . Maybe that is because I never bothered to peer under those hats. You wrote a nice poem, however about the woman in the many flowered hat. ~*~ When they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~ |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
wonderful...james |
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Alison
since 2008-01-27
Posts 9318Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy! |
Thank you, gentlemen!  |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California |
The "centurion face" line leaves quite the expression. So telling. Beautifully done, Alison. Michael |
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Alison
since 2008-01-27
Posts 9318Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy! |
Thank you, Michael. She is a beautiful lady. A |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
dearest Alison, Yours was the first poem I picked to read this morning. Yea! Just what the Dr. ordered for my befuddled muddled mood! What a perfect capture of a precious and joyously contagious whimsy. A straight to the heart feel good!!  ~L |
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Richy Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 3050 |
she sounds like a garden of fruition.. wonderfully done Ali we all should have such fields to behold  |
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EmmaRose Senior Member
since 2011-03-02
Posts 1376Midwest |
You've painted a pretty poem on a moment captured, flowers, hat and Lady |
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latearrival Member Ascendant
since 2003-03-21
Posts 5499Florida |
Lovely words for a nice woman in a flowered hat. enjoyed.jo |
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Alison
since 2008-01-27
Posts 9318Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy! |
Thank you all. Xoxo Alison |
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2islander2 Member Ascendant
since 2008-03-12
Posts 6825by the sea |
a portrait that made me think of impressionism, with a folwered touch, thanks alison yann |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
Love reading your poetry again Alison. This one is lovely. Ida |
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secondhanddreampoet Member Ascendant
since 2006-11-07
Posts 6394a 'Universalist' ! |
fine writing, as always ! |
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Alison
since 2008-01-27
Posts 9318Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy! |
Thank you very much! It's nice to be back. |
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RedStoneEB Senior Member
since 2003-06-08
Posts 772uk |
the long stood post in life as we are both what we were and who we are, i enjoyed the read. RS |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
commenting again....beautiful...james |
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Alison
since 2008-01-27
Posts 9318Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy! |
Thank you, James. So nice of you to take the time to comment again. A |
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jwesley Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563Spring, Texas |
Thought I had commented already - - - looked in again to read comments and, Lo!, not word one from me . . . With the first read I smiled, and warmed. With the second I saw this little girl bending over to look under the hat's brim only to see the sparkling eyes, smile and face of age radiating "warmth and welcome". This third read, I saw Alison's soul - radiant, again... and I smiled with happy. Can you tell I liked this??? |
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J.J.thomas Member Posts 84 |
A smile crossed my face when I read this, which is a good thing. Thank you. |
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devina Member Elite
since 1999-10-28
Posts 3539Cali |
Hearing the flowers... provokes lovely warm thots good to read you and the emotion spilling from this one! ~d Open arms can be the most fragile in the world... |
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ethome Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858New Brunswick Canada |
beautifully crafted word pictures, concise but with depth of emotion...relanguaged true love never looks after it's own interests |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
Listening with a loving heart, hearing a life's story without a word being exchanged. This is beautiful!!! |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Not only is this an exquisite, quiver-sensitive painting of the outer and inner woman in the flowered hat, but also your beautiful soul couldn't help shining through, Alison. If only we could photocopy or clone lots and lots of Alisons, what a wonderful world this would be! Wol |
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