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Terrible Twos
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Terrible Twos |
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Wilfred Yeats Member Elite
since 2000-08-04
Posts 2704Wilmington, Delaware 
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We give them birth We watch them grow When finally We let them go Each age a wonder Truth be told At times we ponder Will we live To see them old Parenting we find Gives OJT Spock's only a guide There are no rules We only hope to find time To make good use of tools So at times we look down At these tots stretching out It's the 'terrible twos' Or some words with clout Now I look back at pictures At two, three and four Sad that my mind's eye Is needed for more Remembering times Five, six, seven, eight Times when I loved Times there was hate My heart swells with memories None so good as those years When she was eight And my eyes fill with tears They're grown = or their gone And I'm not the same All's left are memories It's the name of the game So if you're in twos No matter you're not Store these memories as happy With that string tie a knot It's a gift from above We can carry through life No matter that times Sometimes carried some strife I treasure them all Even now as I know They're making their own dreams With new seeds they sow The first duty of love is to listen. ~ Paul Tillich ~ |
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SEA 
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Member Seraphic
since 2000-01-18
Posts 22676with you |
very sweet and loving there WY  SEA |
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inot2B Member Elite
since 2000-09-18
Posts 2205Arkansas |
I loved them so when they were young. Then one day turned around and they were all grown. Still love them but not the same. |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Bill--Our children our always part of our heart in memory and in reality...love changes but is constant...and to let go is to grow, and so it goes. Enjoyed your poem, my friend! |
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Paula Finn Member Ascendant
since 2000-06-17
Posts 5546missouri |
I remember... |
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Wilfred Yeats Member Elite
since 2000-08-04
Posts 2704Wilmington, Delaware |
SEA- I get this way now and then - (kinda nice to know I've a real fem. side) ~G~ Thanks inot2B- yep - growth makes changes - love cannot and should not stay the same but must needs evolve - Thanks Martie- As flowers sprout, bud and bloom - so does love develop and grow - it's all part of life - what makes us human - Thank you ~S~ Paula - we do remember... it is what gives us the courage to go on some days Thank you |
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