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jwesley
Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

0 posted 2020-09-26 10:49 AM


Cemetery Flowers

You don’t mind, do you?
If I take a flower, or two,
maybe three, oh,
can I have a dozen.
You have so many,
I have none –
and cannot afford to buy –

You’ve all the colors,
and the shapes,
they’re beautiful,
and I have none –

to give to her,
my love,
my life,
still here.


© wesley james beard, jr.


© Copyright 2020 Wesley James Beard, Jr. - All Rights Reserved
augustsky
Senior Member
Posts 828
midwest US
1 posted 2020-09-26 11:59 AM


Hmmmmm..Well, you did ask, did you get a
answer J.? I'm guessing if this is non-fiction it probably was done at a young age.

Sky~

~Tell me the story about how the sun
loved the moon so much..he died every
night to let her breathe~


jwesley
Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563
Spring, Texas
2 posted 2020-09-26 03:05 PM


Yeah Sky - 15 - 16 or so, and I was never turned down!  Kissed ass too (gave some to her mom . . . ).

j.

Michael
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since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666
California
3 posted 2020-10-16 12:27 PM


I remember you writing of this in one of your early cancer posts.  Impulse reminds us we are alive...I am sure those lacking that luxury forgave you chasing yours.

Be well, friend.


Michael

Sven
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4 posted 2020-10-18 11:10 PM


Do the colors speak the words, my friend?

One wonders, at times. . .

Well done. . .

-- That which gives light must endure burning.
Viktor Frankl

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