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Sue
Member

since 1999-08-04

Posts 383
France

0 posted 1999-09-04 02:18 PM

While failing heart is weeping
With none to hear the cries
An infant's soul is peeping
From aged and rheumy eyes

While tired body's sleeping
Prepared to breathe its last
A young girl's soul is leaping
Through meadows of the past

While fading life is seeping
From worn-out, painful shell
A mother's soul is keeping
Her children safe and well

While ancient flesh is creeping
From day to empty day
Cold time is slowly sweeping
A woman's soul away

Denise

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

1 posted 1999-09-04 04:58 PM

Sue, this brought tears to my eyes. What a sad and lovely and perceptive work. This is one of my favorites.

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Denise

Rosemary J. Gwaltney
Senior Member

since 1999-08-26

Posts 997
northern mountains, Idaho

2 posted 1999-09-04 05:29 PM

Oh, Sue, this is so poignantly beautiful, heartbreaking haunting and tender! I'm going to keep this one in my favorite poems file. I'll keep your name attached, though I only know the first name.
I wish I could find more of your work! I'll be on the lookout!
You're a very talented poet!

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...Living is ever like crossing rivers; finding a new life on each shore ... RJG

Pepper
Member Elite

since 1999-08-19

Posts 3079
Southern Florida

3 posted 1999-09-04 05:40 PM

I agree with Denise and Rosemary....I'm speechless...

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May your days be filled with lots of sunshine and your nights lit up by golden moonbeams

Sue
Member

since 1999-08-04

Posts 383
France

4 posted 1999-09-05 01:00 AM

Thank you all very much. I wrote this about my mother, who is ninety-four, and her body is beginning to fail her.

caroline
Senior Member

since 1999-08-16

Posts 1218
http://members.xoom.com/belladona123/index.htm

5 posted 1999-09-05 01:34 AM

Insightful and beautiful. I really love this.

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The only man worth your tears will never make you cry...

hoot_owl_rn
Member Patricius

since 1999-07-05

Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA

6 posted 1999-09-05 08:16 AM

A beautiful comparison of youth and age. Nicely written

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"Nobody has measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold" ~Zelda Fitzgerald

Seymour Tabin
Member Empyrean

since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

7 posted 1999-09-05 03:39 PM

Sue,
My mother in law lived to 103.
She may have more time then you think.
Wonderful poem.

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