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Put This Hearse - In Reverse
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Put This Hearse - In Reverse |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores 
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Put This Hearse - In Reverse ~*Marge Tindal*~ Somber moments last recalled, slow processions at best. Once around the block, then I'm laid to rest. Driver, turn around this hearse ! Put the damned thing in reverse ! Drive back through the life of me, for there are places I need to see. Tour me through the streets of my life, past moments of sorrow, on the corner of strife. Let me know that I shone a light into another's life that night. Pull over to the curb of friendship, for I am thirsty for another sip, found upon the gentle lips of remembered love. A double drive through joy, shared with another soul. Youthful treasure standing on the corner of rock and roll. Put this hearse in reverse ! I've further back I must go ! Take me on a circle through my wishes and dreams. Did they really come as true as it seems ? Take me down the avenue to the arms of my dear mother. Back where I began, a child - a child - a child again. Now, if you insist, we can proceed to the appointed rendezvous, where surely she awaits to rock me gently in her arms beyond eternity's gates. Place one simple flower on this space of grave remembering, for to this final resting place, what we were is all we bring. Remind the others, driver, lest we all forget. Live and love the best you can. One trip through life is all we get. ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ noles1@totcon.com |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
You've got that right Marge...great thoughts...and I'm going out New Orlean's style...and everyone will be singing...happy happy songs! But that's not for about 63 years yet or so... Karilea If I whisper, will you listen?... I would rather be silent and write, than speak loudly and be bound. KRJ |
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Lone Wolf Member Ascendant
since 2000-03-16
Posts 5842Lansing, MI USA |
Marge~ So true. Make the most of what you are given. Excellent advice!!  LW Poetry should surprise by fine excess...it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts and appear almost a remembrance. -J.Keats |
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VAS Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450Oregon |
Really like this! May I keep it in my favorites and share it with my pastor and other friends? |
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Balladeer
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Marge, if anybody could get a hearse to turn around, you could!!  You tickle me....to death!  |
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Ethan Halo Senior Member
since 2000-04-28
Posts 793on the roof again |
exquiste...i love the way you pen. you are magical. "Cogling's law: Bury the dead. They stink up the joint." one for the Cruise fans in the house. "The bar is always open, the time is always right. If God's good word goes unspoken, then the music plays all night." |
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Paula Finn Member Ascendant
since 2000-06-17
Posts 5546missouri |
Ah Lady Marge...one go round on this merry go round we call life...so make the most of it...be the best you can be...love the best you can love...what a great write |
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ethome Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858New Brunswick Canada |
I know what you mean Marge no one's getting out of this one alive...so make the best of it while you're here....my sentiments exactly ...live, love, laugh and be happy and you sure know how to do that through your wonderful words...so exuberant they are sometimes that I just want to dance and I just might you never know! Like Don Henley says in his song "you can have stack and stacks and stacks but I ain't seen a hearse with luggage racks." |
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EagleOne Member Elite
since 2000-03-07
Posts 2829Between a laugh and a tear... |
Timely and thought provoking! Thankyou! "The heart and soul have no illusion of boundries when friendship is the quest" ~ My Angel. |
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Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Karilea~ Thanks for the reply. Pensive thoughts went through this head when I saw a funeral procession passing. LoneWolf~ And that's just what we all should do. VAS~ You may share it. I trust your pastor is a liberal-thinker. Balladeer~ I try ! Ethan~ Okay. Thanks for the reply. Paula~ Thanks, hon. Have you ever wondered what avenues you'd want to visit IF we had choices ? ETHome~ Just was thinking that when it's time to make that trip I might want to do an encore. EagleOne~ *Hugs*, my sweet friend. ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ noles1@totcon.com |
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