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Billy
Junior Member

since 1999-09-05

Posts 25

0 posted 1999-09-12 05:10 PM

My mother always held close
Her keepsakes of great pain.
I never understood why
She held those things of shame.
When she died we threw them out
With hurried hands we moved.
Now I have my own keepsakes
And claim my heart is soothed.
When I die they'll throw mine out
And always wonder why.
Why did I keep these things close
These things that make me cry?

Buzzygirl
Junior Member

since 1999-09-11

Posts 42
St. Paul, MN USA

1 posted 1999-09-12 05:13 PM

Wow-- this one really struck deep with me... my mom passed away 5 years ago now and just a couple of days ago, I was checking through a box in what was her room, and found some old momentos of hers-- this is eerie, really, to read your poem! It inspires feelings of sadness, mixed with joy in me, remembering how wonderful my mom was. Thank you.

Denise

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

2 posted 1999-09-12 05:46 PM

Very touching. It evokes in me the sadness of final loss and hanging on to those little reminders of those who are now gone.

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caroline
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since 1999-08-16

Posts 1218
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3 posted 1999-09-12 06:14 PM

Brief and sweet...and very moving.

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Billy
Junior Member

since 1999-09-05

Posts 25

4 posted 1999-09-13 03:32 AM

Thanks for your comments. My mother insisted on keeping pictures of women my father had while they were married. We (daughters) were glad when we finally got to throw them out.

hoot_owl_rn
Member Patricius

since 1999-07-05

Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA

5 posted 1999-09-13 08:26 AM

Not a wasted word in the bunch. Very well written

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"The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say." ~Anais Nin

JTF
Member

since 1999-08-09

Posts 319
France

6 posted 1999-09-13 08:31 AM

Very moving Billy ... I love it

Deb Lynne
Member

since 1999-08-19

Posts 180
Where blue skies meet blue ocean

7 posted 1999-09-13 08:37 AM

This one hit close to home. I recently gave my ten year old daughter a scrap book that I had tenderly kept since age 16, the beginning of an era with her father. It has no heart strings attached anymore for me, but it helps show her that there once was a love that was the beginning of her. She now can understand that we haven't always fought or been enemies. Time does heal all wounds!

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