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Kaoru

Member Elite

since 2003-06-07

Posts 3892
where the wild flowers grow

0 posted 2014-04-18 01:14 AM

            The snowflakes
            on your sweater
         shimmer in the winter sun,
                 but
         they haven't fallen yet.

        They bleed into each other
             as you splash
           in spring puddles,
        you roll the sleeves up
         and stretch the fabric.

           The snowflakes on
             your sweater
       bend over the edge of your bed.
     I trace my fingers across the arches
              of your feet,
     because I love to hear you laugh.
               You laugh
             just like me.

       And there have been many nights
            that I have wept
        a deep and painful cry,
             knowing that one day
        the snowflakes on
   your sweater
won't fit.

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

1 posted 2014-04-18 06:39 AM

This is priceless. It is a keeper for reading later on when the sweater doesn't fit anymore. The poem is also a good reason to hang on to that sweater...together they capture a whole season of memories!

Lori

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2014-04-18 07:53 AM

Nostalgic write full of love and honesty. I love it.

~*~ Love is friendship set on fire. ~*~

EmmaRose
Senior Member

since 2011-03-02

Posts 1376
Midwest

3 posted 2014-04-18 12:33 PM

the snowflakes eventually melt, but the
warm feeling will be everlasting with such a charming poem

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

4 posted 2014-04-23 12:44 PM

nice...James

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

5 posted 2014-04-23 09:26 PM

Wow . . .

just, Wow . . .

j.

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

6 posted 2014-04-24 07:46 PM

A very touching poem, dear Kaoru. Intense pathos.

Love,
Margherita

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