Just One More Time?---in memory of my mother

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Open Poetry #12

Just One More Time?---in memory of my mother

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2001-02-20 01:20 PM

Just One More Time?
Virginia Salter

May I brush your hair
just one more time...
like in the days
when smiles reached your lips
and sparkles twinkled your eyes.

One-hundred strokes
love in the spokes
of arms and legs
surrounding our relationship.

Both of us
sporting long locks
tresses of sheen and shine
when it was good
to be in each other’s hair.

One more brush stroke
of your golden threads
and your eagerness
to love’s caresses
in brushing my ash-brown strands.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful
just one more time
for each of us
to feel that mother/daughter love

© February 20, 2001

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

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1 posted 2001-02-20 02:04 PM

Yes.

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

2 posted 2001-02-20 03:43 PM

Thank you, Sunshine, for that lovely whisper.

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

3 posted 2001-02-21 01:29 PM

I envy you those memories... even as I understand the wishing. *S* Beautiful! I posted this long ago... I think you'll understand. *S*

reminiscing

Looking back on yesteryears
I know the pain
And feel the tears
Of lonely days
And empty arms
And sleepless nights
And life with no real meaning.

Memories of you never die
They come to me
And make me cry
For all that's lost
Forevermore
And all that's gained
That wasn't ever wanted.

If only for a little while
I'd like to love you
See you smile
And laugh with you
In morning's light
For all the dreams
More time might have fulfilled.

[This message has been edited by suthern (edited 02-21-2001).]

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

4 posted 2001-02-21 01:37 PM

Oh, I do, I do...and I especially like the last stanza! thanks, Suthern!

catalinamoon

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-06-03

Posts 9543
The Shores of Alone

5 posted 2001-02-24 03:37 PM

Sweet memory of someone very much loved, it is flowing from the poem.
Sandra

OLIAS
Senior Member

since 2000-06-20

Posts 1090
Pearl city Iowa

6 posted 2001-02-24 06:11 PM

Very moving and much enjoyed, thank you.

Regards,
Olias.

walker
Member Elite

since 2001-02-11

Posts 2240
Florida

7 posted 2001-02-24 06:30 PM

Vas this is a very touching love story, my daughter and I do the very same thing, brush each others hairs. Its bonding at its best. Lovely expressed.

A quarter of a century must pass, for the writer to understand what and why he writes.

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