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A Year Has Passed
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A Year Has Passed |
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Rainydays Member
since 2000-10-21
Posts 324 |
"A Year Has Passed" A year has passed and still I cannot move Each daybreak brings a surge of grief's embrace A plowman bound in endless earthen groove I search within your words to find my place You urged through tears of pain and aching heart That I go on to hear and see and feel Above my head the sky, a work of art I touch the stone and know it to be real As memory overtakes my heart I see In autumn's brilliant burn of rolling wave Just how your tender love has set me free I kneel and brush the dead things from your grave Rainydays |
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SEA 
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Member Seraphic
since 2000-01-18
Posts 22676with you |
made my heart ache and my tears flow........-SEA |
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Mark Bohannan Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-21
Posts 7269In the winds of Cherokee song |
Awe me too. I wish I had a poetic response for you on this one but will you please accept my sincere wishes for you. This one really tore at me. Take care of you please. |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Oh, my...may Sunshine give hugs...they won't help, I know, but at least, the thought is there... Karilea If I whisper, will you listen?...KRJ |
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inot2B Member Elite
since 2000-09-18
Posts 2205Arkansas |
I can't tell you I know how you feel because I don't. All I can say is we all will be here for you. God Bless and I hope the pain will lessen. |
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Rainydays Member
since 2000-10-21
Posts 324 |
SEA, I'm sorry this was so sad, but we write what comes from our hearts, and call it poetry. Thank you for reading and for letting me know that it moved you. Mark, I will gladly accept your wishes, as I believe they are sincere, and I thank you for them. I am trying to take care of me, and one of the ways in which I am doing that is writing again. Thank you, sincerely, for your thoughts today. Sunshine, hugs ALWAYS help! Always! Thank you!  inot2B, thank you very much for your caring words. I am okay, just sometimes, well...it's difficult. It was a year ago today that we went to the hospital for the very last time. Thank you so much for being so kind. Rainydays |
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Ron K. Fox Senior Member
since 2000-10-24
Posts 925 |
Rainydays, This has touched me, as October (1st) was when my brother died. And I loved him dearly, it may be a differnt type of love, but it was still a love. My sincerest blessings. If i could summon the powers, I'd send the sun to shine over your roof. be well. Tossing words like wishful coins into the deep well of an open heart. R. fox |
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Irish Rose Member Patricius
since 2000-04-06
Posts 10263 |
You reached in deep for this one. God bless. "When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass, and the sun drips honey."" Laurie Lee Kathleen |
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Elizabeth
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Member Ascendant
since 1999-06-07
Posts 6871Minnesota |
Pain-filled...it made my heart cry out. I don't know what else to say, but you will be in my thoughts and prayers. Elizabeth You cling to your ways and leave mine to me. Suum cuique. ~Elizabeth |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
Minutes fade into hours ... then slowly turn into days, Time seems like an eternity, frozen in winters gray haze. Futures hold no promises, lost to residual love, Nightfall calls in the silence ... hovering over from above. Whispered songs and verses search for meaning and rhyme, Desperately looking for the reasons ... embracing these moments in time. Memories console and comfort ...your words return in sweet poetic cascade, Believing in your light I will heal and keep the promises made. Time will eventually release me ... of this pain I will be spared, Living the lessons learned ... the gifts of this love shared. Janet Marie 1/10/00 *********** Rainy Days ... this poem of yours touches me deeply... I too know this pain ... its not been a year yet but YES ... it has been the writing and keeping the promises made ... that has been my saving grace ... I hope you dont mind me sharing this poem here with you...I dont want it to seem I am taking the light from your poem ... it is a very special poem.. and I know the depth they come from. take care jm There are places inside our souls - that have never been touched. There are places inside our hearts - that need to be loved this much. ~jm~ |
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peppermint35 Senior Member
since 2000-05-28
Posts 1106Texas, USA |
This is a loving, beautiful, memorable tribute....it touched me deeply. Hugs, Pepper Pepper "I honor the place in you, that when you are in that place, and I am in that place in me, we are in the same place" Ram Dass |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Rainyday these are very touching words...I am sorry that you are feeling the pain right now...take care..James |
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Rainydays Member
since 2000-10-21
Posts 324 |
Ron, the sun "is" shining over me from the words of your lovely poem. Thank you again...I'm glad I am typing and not trying to speak, as I still have this big lump in my throat. I'm sorry that you know loss such as this in the death of your brother. I hope that through your writing, you are able to experience a degree of comfort and peaceful place. Take care, my poet friend. Irish Rose, thank you so much. You are so kind. Eizabeth, that you have taken time to read and respond is a comfort to me. Thank you, sincerely. Janet, of course I don't mind you sharing your poem...I am touched that you were moved to do so. Thank you for your kind words. Pepper, thank you so much for those hugs. James, thank you for your caring words. The outpouring of support from you "ALL" is just overwhelming to me. I'm sorry it's taken me so long to respond tonight, but with trick or treaters arriving and not knowing just what to say here, it has taken a while to collect my thoughts. Thank you all from far within my heart. Rainydays |
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SouthernStar Junior Member
since 2000-10-30
Posts 23Georgia |
I am so terribly sorry. Nothing I can say will ease the pain, this I know. But please know that you're in my thoughts and prayers. Beautifully written. A warm embrace to you. Tessa |
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jwesley Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563Spring, Texas |
The words may evoke sadness, my friend, but it's clear that the life now dim to our eyes lives on in you every minute of every day and there is no sadness in that. Beautiful thoughts, beautifully written...from the heart and the soul... jwesley |
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Daniel J D Senior Member
since 2000-10-01
Posts 1471Hillcrest, Queensland, Australia |
Rainydays, I am deeply touched by your sadness, I am with you all the way. Cheers. "Above my head the sky, a work of art I touch the stone and know it to be real" Respond to my call and let the waves of my heart fill your life with the wonders of love (Daniel J D) |
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Gentle Spirit Member Patricius
since 2000-10-09
Posts 13989 |
RD, this is touching and moving. Indeed I know how you feel having loved and lost someone so important to you. My father who raised me since I was eighteen months old passed away almost a year ago now. The sadness remains a part of me, and his spirit is with me always. So touching this is, it brings a tear to my eye. Bless you~ |
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Butterflies_dont_cry Member Elite
since 2000-03-06
Posts 3733Michigan |
RD* This is so tearfully written...the reader can't help but feel your pain and wish heal your broken heart...take care and let the sunshine warm your heart with memories in time~ |
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The Lonely Stranger Member
since 1999-06-18
Posts 361Upstate, NY, USA |
< I kneel and brush the dead things from your grave > So touching an end to this heartfelt work. It touched me deeply and thus .... My  To insignia [This message has been edited by The Lonely Stranger (edited 10-31-2000).] |
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catalinamoon
since 2000-06-03
Posts 9543The Shores of Alone |
Oh, such sadness, and so much love within. Hugs and hopes for you to find some happiness again. Sandra |
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Paula Finn Member Ascendant
since 2000-06-17
Posts 5546missouri |
RainyDays...I cannot even begin to know how you feel...losing someone close is just too personal an experience...all I can offer is hugs and a shoulder and a willing ear if you ever want to talk... |
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Rainydays Member
since 2000-10-21
Posts 324 |
I cannot thank you all enough. That each of you has taken time to share a few words with me moves me near to tears this morning, as it did yesterday. Thanks to a poet friend who's opinion I respect, I have come to realize that this piece, as a poem, is incomplete. It needs a stanza between two and three to depict the transition between being paralyzed with grief and being able to move ("to hear and see and feel"). I may post the revision here when I've got it written. I'm sending e'mail notes so as not to take up any more board room. Hope that is okay. Thanks again to everyone for reading and sharing your thoughts, prayers and hugs with me. You're the neatest bunch of folks. Love, Rainy |
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