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Kit McCallum
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since 2000-04-30
Posts 14774Ontario, Canada 
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Mere Words I searched among the card displays, To see if I could find, A little something that would say Just what was on my mind. However there was not a one, That captured it just right, For no one else can understand Just what I’d like to write. I even find it difficult To try to write it down, For how do I portray to you, The love that I have known? I close my eyes and what I see, Is someone I adore; A person who is beautiful, Write down into their soul. Mere words cannot describe The many qualities you show, The love and caring nature that You share with those who know. Your kind and gentle temperament, Your sweet angelic smile, Your softly spoken sentiments, That reach across the miles. Your smile and laugh that sparkle with The softness of your sighs, The way your face lights up a room ... That twinkle in your eye. The loving gestures through the years, That quickly come to mind, For always you’ve a gentle word To calm and soothe I find. I struggle and I search to try To find some words a’new ... And yet I cannot capture All the things that make you “you”. I shall therefore, be satisfied That you must simply “know”, Just how I feel about you, For with words I cannot show. /Kit McCallum |
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Munda Member Elite
since 1999-10-08
Posts 3544The Hague, The Netherlands |
Kit, but you just described it beautifully ! |
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Elizabeth
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Member Ascendant
since 1999-06-07
Posts 6871Minnesota |
Words fail me to describe how well this was done, Kitt! Elizabeth I'm grabbing my hat and coat I'm leaving the cat a note Quick call me a ferry boat-getting out of town! |
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Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Kit~ Don't need a card rack ... with words like this from your heart. You did it just right. ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ [email protected] |
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CocoBaci Member Elite
since 2000-05-06
Posts 3043 |
Oh Kit, these words so heartfelt expressed are truly sweet. I'm happy to have come across another one of your poetries.  Coco |
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brian madden Member Elite
since 2000-05-06
Posts 4374ireland |
Kit there are some things that words can not describe fully only hint at and believe love is one of those things. All the same you did a wonderful job in portraying that intangible emotion we call love. ------------------------ "Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time". Baltimore Grotto "To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." E.E Cummings. Faster- manic street preachers I am an architect, they call me a butcher I am a pioneer, they call me primitive I am purity, they call me perverted Holding you but I only miss these things when they leave I am idiot drug hive, the virgin, the tattered and the torn Life is for the cold made warm and they are just lizards Self-disgust is self-obsession honey and I do as I please A morality obedient, only to the cleansed repented *I am stronger than Mensa, Miller and Mailer I spat out Plath and Pinter I am all the things that you regret A truth that washes that learnt how to spell The first time you see yourself naked you cry Soft skin now acne, foul breath, so broken He loves me truly this mute solitude I'm draining I know I believe in nothing but it is my nothing Sleep can't hide the thoughts splitting through my mind Shadows aren't clean, false mirrors too many people awake If you stand up like a nail then you will be knocked down I've been too honest with myself I should have lied like everybody else * chorus So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything (x4) ----- |
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nando Member
since 2000-06-09
Posts 87Vaxjo, Smaland, Sweden |
WOW  Kit, this is really an excellent poem... Found myself floating away when I read it, or should I say when I experienced it. Because thats what it was, an experience... Really good work.... -nando- Ask me how to live your life, and this to you I´ll say: make your choises true and wise, so that when tomorrow will arise, you´ll smile at yesterday... |
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Jeffrey Carter
since 2000-04-08
Posts 2367State of constant confusion! |
WOW Kit, You should submit this to a card company It is amazing All my love, Jeffrey I lie awake in a world filled with dreams, but dreams can be so real when you don't know you're asleep |
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insect Senior Member
since 2000-04-22
Posts 1014 |
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Butterflies_dont_cry Member Elite
since 2000-03-06
Posts 3733Michigan |
Oh Kit how true this is!! Now if there was a card that said that I would have to buy a dozen!!!! Wonderfully done, thank you for sharing this!! |
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Kit McCallum
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Member Laureate
since 2000-04-30
Posts 14774Ontario, Canada |
~Munda: Thank you very much Munda! ~Elizabeth: Thank's so much Elizabeth. ~Marge: Thank you Marge! I might still have run to a card rack if my muse is sleeping though  ~Coco: I'm glad you came across it too Coco, thank you! ~Brian: Thank you for the lovely words Brian! ~Nando: Thank you for the WOW and the wonderful comment Nando! ~Jeffrey: Thanks Jeffrey for the WOW and the lovely compliment! ~Insect: MUCH thanks Insect!!! ~Butterflies: Most welcome Butterflies, and thank YOU! Much appreciation to all for the lovely comments, /Kit |
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Lorraine Nisbet Member
since 2000-05-18
Posts 218Jersey City, NJ USA |
Kit~ Beautifully written from the heart!! ~Lorraine A great poet is nothing more....than a discovered amateur |
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Dark Angel Member Patricius
since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095 |
Beautiful Kit, straight from the heart. Je t'aime plus qu'hier et moins que demain." I love you more than yesterday and less than tomorrow (unkown) |
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SpitFire Member Elite
since 2000-04-19
Posts 2396 |
~Kit,...awww....this here is what you should put in a card...it says it all and so beautifully. Thank you for such a lovely read. Take care. *Peace. |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
Hallmarks got nothing on you dear!! this is exceptional writing Kit a very well written and expressed piece!!!! loved it.. jm And it's good that I'm not angry, I just need to get over, I'm not angry, anymore Cry when you cry, run when you run, love when you love, represent the ashes that you leave behind ~MB20~ "What the caterpillar calls the end ... The world calls a butterfly" ~Lao Tze Tao~ ~Butterflies are meant to be free~ |
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Kit McCallum
Administrator
Member Laureate
since 2000-04-30
Posts 14774Ontario, Canada |
~Lorraine: Thank you for your kind words Lorraine! ~Dark Angel: From the heart to the pen ... thanks Dark Angel! ~SpitFire: You're welcome SpitFire, and thank you for the lovely note! ~Janet Marie: Thank you JM ... Hallmark just doesn't have what you want sometimes! Much appreciation to all, /Kit |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
I love it Kit - this should be a card itself - to remind someone special that they should know how we feel about them - they should already know it - but take time to remember... cute, very cute..  |
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