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My Grandmother's Room
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My Grandmother's Room |
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Beki Senior Member
since 1999-09-15
Posts 1569Newport Beach, CA, USA |
My Grandmother's Room The fragrance of roses wafts through the room - dried petals on a polished table. Old family photographs, bronzed by the sun, smile up from the petals like topaz. Late afternoon light sifts through lace curtains - crochets patterns on the wall. love-faded quilts lie folded and stacked like cordwood in her cedar chest. In three careful rows her books line the sheves - a lifetime of gathered wisdom. Like her body in death, these sins in her room say she was here, but is gone. |
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ethome Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858New Brunswick Canada |
Got to love those grandmas they are so much a part of the wonderful gifts of life...I remember mine bought me a bicycle when I graduated from grade three..and oh, how I loved that bike it was my pride and joy... I love this tribute to your grandmother...I love the way you've written it...like she is still there......great! ethome |
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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
Beautiful Beki! This reads like a sepia toned photograph.  |
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Tony Abbot Member
since 2000-11-18
Posts 209North Wales,UK |
I always keep an eye out for your work,it's always so naturalistic,never contrived.Another beautiful piece. 'Humankind cannot bear too much reality' T.S.Eliot |
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Beki Senior Member
since 1999-09-15
Posts 1569Newport Beach, CA, USA |
ethome and DeVine, thank you both bunches. Tony, I appreciate the compliment, thank you very much  |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Beki~ You sure stirred some nostalgic memories here. I can take myself back to my great grandmother's room in a heartbeat. Thank you so much for this lovely gift. ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ [email protected] |
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