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Joyce Johnson
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0 posted 2004-05-04 03:02 PM


Past My Prime

In honesty I must admit
I'm slipping slowly past my prime.
I hadn't noticed transformation
Happening to me over time.

Though my memory needed prodding,
When I forgot an old friend's name;
I told myself I hadn't changed
And still looked very much the same.

But windexing my mirror in
A seizure of fanatic clean
Took the forgiving film away;
The hidden changes to unscreen.

I can no longer tell myself
A candid picture of me lies.
I must accept as fact the face
I had refused to recognize.

By Joyce 05/04/04

© Copyright 2004 Joyce I Johnson - All Rights Reserved
Marge Tindal
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1 posted 2004-05-04 04:53 PM


Joyce~
Don't you come down here Windexing MY MIRROR~

I'm staying behind the haze~

Love this gal~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram <))><

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Joyce Johnson
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2 posted 2004-05-04 08:50 PM


Thanks Marge.  Som shocks are hard to recover from.  Love, Joyce
Isobel
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3 posted 2004-05-05 07:07 AM


Dear Joyce

I'm not into windexing and I think we all hide behind a 'haze'.  Now I know why I am only in front of the mirror just long enough to run the brush through my hair.

This is a lovely poem.

Love Isobel ox  


Joyce Johnson
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4 posted 2004-05-05 08:58 AM


Dear Isobel.  I was up so early this morning that I thought no one would have been around, but I see you have been here clear from Australia.  Thank you,  Love, Joyce
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