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Lucie
Senior Member

since 1999-06-20

Posts 1077
Houston

0 posted 1999-08-17 11:18 PM

So many things you gave to me
from birth until you passed.
Your morals and your humor
these things will always last.

It wasn't all the worldly goods
you left me when you died.
That keep you closest to my heart
its the poetry you left inside.

You see I truly understand
that a poet passes on.
Usually the words are meaningless
until the day they're gone.

The words you left I hold so dear,
the most cherished of my possessions.
The rhyming of a lonely heart
lost loves and soul confessions.

The "items" you left I've lost and broke
they've all been thrown away.
Material things don't last that long,
but a poets words will always stay.

The gift of poetry you've given me
I'll keep it till I'm gone.
I'll teach it to my children
then pass the gift along.

Severn
Member Rara Avis

since 1999-07-17

Posts 7704

1 posted 1999-08-17 11:44 PM

This is very touching - and how true! Thanks for giving this to us to read.

Sue
Member

since 1999-08-04

Posts 383
France

2 posted 1999-08-18 02:32 AM

This touched me, it made me think of my father.

elvira
Senior Member

since 1999-07-06

Posts 936
California

3 posted 1999-08-18 04:04 AM

well said, Lucie...how lucky you are to have grown up in a poetic family and how nice to know you are passing it on

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

4 posted 1999-08-18 10:40 AM

Great poem, Lucie... what a wonderful legacy!

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

5 posted 1999-08-18 11:28 AM

Makes me wish I had written this one. Well done.

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Sunshine
Words will always express our feelings true. ~~~ KRJ
Look, then, into thine heart, and write ~~~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nan

Administrator

Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-20

Posts 21191
Cape Cod Massachusetts USA

6 posted 1999-08-18 05:25 PM

Very nice, indeed........

Delores Hall
Member

since 1999-07-16

Posts 342
USA

7 posted 1999-08-18 09:32 PM

That was very nice.

DARILYN SUE
Junior Member

since 1999-08-03

Posts 22
HOUSTON, TX

8 posted 1999-08-19 12:14 PM

ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL ONE. YOUR MOTHER WOULD BE SO PROUD. I CAN JUST SEE HER SMILING ON THIS ONE FROM UP ABOVE.

MEMORIES ARE A WONDERFUL THING.

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