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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA 
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she dusted off the faded box found up in the attic under mounds of useless junk discarded to the trash or placed in new boxes to be taken to the church rummage sale weathered hands peeling tape hurriedly forsaken in haste to be finished with her task so she could retire to a bathtub full of warm water and a good book momentos not worth saving clothes well out dated objects saved for a rainy day which had come and gone a hundred times over clueless as to why they were saved to begin with in the very bottom a single faded picture aged with time caught her eye and in an instant she was young again < !signature--> What lies behind us and lies before us are small matters compaired to what lies within us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson [This message has been edited by hoot_owl_rn (edited 08-12-2000).] |
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BloomingRose Member Elite
since 2000-08-09
Posts 3092Florida |
Faded picture aged with time caught her eye...and she became young again. Ruth, Seeing pictures and looking back at past momento's will do that. It's that window in time. I loved it! Deb BloomingRose |
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brian madden Member Elite
since 2000-05-06
Posts 4374ireland |
Ruth, a beautifully written poem. in the very bottom a single faded picture aged with time caught her eye and in an instant she was young again "To the centre of the city where all roads meet, waiting for you,To the depths of the ocean where all hopes sank, searching for you," Joy divison |
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
....and that's why it was saved...  |
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Marsha
since 2000-07-10
Posts 7423Maidstone Kent England |
That is so good, a wonderfully evocative poem. Thank you for the gift, it made my mind flick back to those things we all keep. |
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Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Hoot~ Nostalgic render of lovely thoughts. Enjoyed the plunder in the attic. ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ [email protected] |
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Wilfred Yeats Member Elite
since 2000-08-04
Posts 2704Wilmington, Delaware |
Before I comment on this beautiful poem I first must tell you my screen has - up to now made 'rn' look like 'm' and as a consequence - I thought hoot_owl a male - Call me sexist if you like for jumping to the opposite conclusion - if either sex regardless presumed with either spelling ~G~ but I did - - I did a similar internal debate with Martini and reading one of M's poems - still left me with an androgenous conclusion. This is obviously the wrong place to suggest that the forum find some way to help the uninitiated like myself not that it would affect my opinion of the quality of the work regardless - just that it would be nice to know. Suffice to say that I did not find the play on words I expected - rather another poem I'd vote for in a heartbeat as one of the finest I've read here or anywhere else. |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
Thank you everyone for your kind words...just a bit of something that came to me this AM Wilfred...grins, well this hoot owl certainly isn't a m  and yes, sex does change the perspective on certain poems. Thank you very much for your kind words in response to my work here |
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Rosemary J. Gwaltney Senior Member
since 1999-08-26
Posts 997northern mountains, Idaho |
I loved this! Yes, though I'm not yet "old", I can relate in a second to something instantly making one feel young again, and a picture can do it! |
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Sudhir Iyer Member Ascendant
since 2000-04-26
Posts 6943Mumbai, India : now in Belgium |
Ruth, This is an excellent poem ... very nostalgic... ---- a single faded picture aged with time caught her eye ... she was young again ---- WOW... regards, sudhir |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
Thank you |
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