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Lonely Widow
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Lonely Widow |
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Julie Senior Member
since 1999-08-20
Posts 739Houston, TX |
Shuffling across a room an old lady stops to say good-bye then into the kitchen to get her broom her heart sunken and dry. She's not sure what happened to her life as the tears dwindle down her face it's the memories of being someone's wife, all evidence vansihed without a trace. Her days are busy from dawn till dusk but closing the door as night falls the house silent, the smell of musk, in her mind she remembers the calls. Calls of five children in the hall, a masculine voice inquiring... "were you out shopping at the mall?" As she nestles on the old couch-retiring. The sounds of all those voices falling, that filled her home, once called her nest; her soul then torn apart recalling the flood of memories blessed. If only there was just one to say, "I missed you honey" at the end of the day- I wouldn't call my life lonely today. ------------------ Julie ------------------------- Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. >Stendhal |
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Balladeer
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Very sad, Julie, and poignantly written. |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
Very sad Julie, but very well told. Thank you for the read  |
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Pepper Member Elite
since 1999-08-19
Posts 3079Southern Florida |
Very touching, very sad...... ------------------ A soul that writes from the heart and shares it, truly gives a gift extrordinaire! |
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Watcher666 Senior Member
since 1999-10-13
Posts 1606 |
So sad! Very well done. ------------------ Illusion...what we see and what we do...it's all up to you. |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
Very nice, Julie.... I wrote this one some time ago - about Solitude [This message has been edited by Nan (edited 10-24-1999).] |
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caroline Senior Member
since 1999-08-16
Posts 1218http://members.xoom.com/belladona123/index.htm |
Heartwrenching Julie...but well done. I can feel the lonliness here.  ------------------ "Tread softly, for I have spread my dreams under your feet"~~William Butler Yeats |
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IsabelleSkye Member
since 1999-06-27
Posts 253 |
Absolutely painful! But the bright side of your poem....was that she experienced the love and family etc....and was blessed enough by it to miss it! Ya know? Great Read, thank you. I.Skye ------------------ "With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls; for stony limits cannot hold love out; and what love can do that dares love attempt." Romeo & Juliet Act II |
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Julie Senior Member
since 1999-08-20
Posts 739Houston, TX |
Wow guys! Leave a room for a few minutes and come back with such warm sentiments.Thank you all for the read: Balladeer, Hoot, Pepper, Watcher, Nan (thanks for the link will take a peek soon as I write this novel here), Caroline...thank you so glad to see you back...Izzy...yes it is bitter sweet. |
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Julie Senior Member
since 1999-08-20
Posts 739Houston, TX |
Great poem Nan...makes a nice sequel to this one here. Thank you for sharing. |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
Good one, Julie! Very sad, so you still owe me another happy one!  ------------------ Denise |
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suicidal dreams Member
since 1999-09-28
Posts 343Toledo Ohio USA |
Deaply depressing . if this is what it is like to be married or to have been it is not what i wish for me or anyone for that matter. ------------------ life is short kill quick |
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Julie Senior Member
since 1999-08-20
Posts 739Houston, TX |
Denise: I am working on one...it has your name on it... suicidal dreams: part of life is loosing those we love at some point...I wanted to show a side to esp the elderly that people often don't see or think about after they loose someone they may have lived with for 50 years. ------------------ Julie ------------------------- Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. >Stendhal |
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