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VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2001-01-27 11:37 PM

To Hear a Voice
Virginia Salter

From adolescence on
didn’t want anyone to say
I reminded them of my mother
as much as
I didn’t like hearing her say,
“You’re like your father.”
She never said it as a compliment.
I lost her almost three years ago, now.
Lots of pain, pain of missing her,
pain in wondering...
if there was something more
I could have done,
pain of her absence,
pain of those smiles,
those eye-twinkles
that I so longed to see,
that there was no more reason
to hope for them.
The pain
of knowing the futility
of hoping to hear her sing
as she had when I was small.
~~~~~~~
Choir rehearsal, Wednesday,
praising His holy name,
receiving the blessing of His awesome power,
in raising glorious strains,
a sound, a melody, a tone
reached my ears,
coming from the depths of me,
bringing me to tears.
Just the fewest moments,
just the simplest tones,
her voice, in cheery reverence,
indwelt my sinew and my bone..
Escaped my lips,
pressed to my ears
the awesome kindling love,
the joy embodied
in her voice,
for these moments
my intone.

© January 27, 2001

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

1 posted 2001-01-27 11:55 PM

VAS~
This touches me, as I hear the voices
and find so much comfort in the messages they bring.

'Just the fewest moments,
just the simplest tones,
her voice, in cheery reverence,
indwelt my sinew and my bone..'

Yes ! I understand this so clearly.
~*Marge*~

~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
noles1@totcon.com

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

2 posted 2001-01-28 12:02 PM

Thank you Marge. Words are so frail to express fully an experience such as this was. I thank you for your encouraging response.

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

3 posted 2001-01-28 12:02 PM

I know this voice....and she says "you did what you could..." and he says "you did as you should..."...and I cry...because I would have them back, if I could...and then I loose them to the wind...and see them sparkle under the sun...

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

4 posted 2001-01-28 12:04 PM

Thank you Sunshine. That is all I can see to write, right now.

artsygrl
Member

since 2000-11-17

Posts 55
Florida

5 posted 2001-01-28 02:58 AM

very few poems make me cry this is truly, truly, truly a special poem please tuck this away somewhere..this is so sweet...IT made me want to call my Mom right away, unfortunatly it is 2:55 am...thank you for this read Vas!!
artsygrl

Rex Allen McCoy
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since 2000-01-30

Posts 2863
Sippin a Timmy's in London

6 posted 2001-01-28 09:20 AM

Where is she now ?
~~~

A  teardrop
stains  a  cobblestone
a  world
exhales  a  sigh
The plea
within a whispered thought
spills  out
from  hidden  eye
A  distant  promise
on  the wind
drifts  down  from  those  above
Unfolds  a  heart
within  its  song
then ...
refills  that  world
with  love
~~~

I wrote this to my mom who I passed away
just before Christmas ... and I miss her a lot ... as I also see here in your words

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

7 posted 2001-01-28 10:51 AM

Thanks artsygirl and Rex for reading and your very kind, sweet comments.

Rex, wonderful poem for your mother, beautiful.

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