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Lori Grosser Rhoden
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since 2009-10-10
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Fair to middlin' of nowhere

0 posted 2019-08-02 10:47 AM



The sunrise the other morning
was spectacular in pinks.
My someone special
to share it with
was still getting forty winks.
We are like two ships
passing in the dark
at dawn.
He is asleep,
gently snoring,
while I am awake
and very boring.
Trying to stay
quiet as a mouse,
I resist urges
to clean house.
Try as I may
to get sleepy,
it never fails to happen,
that my eyes don’t close
until the bedroom door
comes open.
I’m ready to snore
when he’s ready for coffee.
He needs the news,
I need a little snooze.
We kiss good morning
as we cross paths.

LGR(C)8/2/19

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Gunslinger
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since 1999-10-09
Posts 901
TX, USA
1 posted 2019-08-03 12:40 PM


You should have chosen an early riser like myself. Our situations are the same, but the participants switched. Well said, milady,
Michael
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since 1999-08-13
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California
2 posted 2019-08-10 02:12 PM


All in all, I think ships passing in the dark have to be be better off than ones lost at sea.  just my bleak as usual perspective.  
Gunslinger
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since 1999-10-09
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3 posted 2019-08-10 03:33 PM


Excellent point, Michael.
Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
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Fair to middlin' of nowhere
4 posted 2019-08-11 07:55 AM


Thanks guys,
He is an early riser now by choice to have coffee with me before I leave for work.
As for you Michael and being "bleak" put me in mind of another chronic gloom-attude. Eeyore!
However bleak you may be,you are as he is,kind and lovable, wise and whimsical in your distinctive dread. ~L

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