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VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2001-05-02 01:10 AM

If I Only Had a Heart
Virginia Salter

If I only had a heart
.....said the Tinman
.....mournfully
As he reached out his hand
.....to the lonely
.....little girl

If I only had a heart,
.....I could care for so many,
.....said he, handing
.....buttercup smiles
.....to the children
.....in the lane

I’d dream of ways
.....to bring light and music
.....to the souls
.....of the land
.....whose eyes
.....are blue with tears

If I only had a heart

©April 25, 2000

latin passion
Senior Member

since 2001-04-26

Posts 576

1 posted 2001-05-02 01:15 AM

I really loved the tinman. So are you going to write on the scarecrow and the lion?? Giving buttercups - I smiled as read your poem. "If I only had a heart."

Greeneyes

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-09-09

Posts 9903
In Your Poetic Mind

2 posted 2001-05-02 04:22 PM

plenty of heart is revealed here....lovely VAS~...

Lauren~

***

Nothing Beautiful In This World
Is Ever Really Lost
All Things Beloved
Live on In Our Hearts...Forever."

Irish Rose
Member Patricius

since 2000-04-06

Posts 10263

3 posted 2001-05-02 07:16 PM

I need to view the Wizard of Oz again, this is the second poem I've read concerning the wonderful characters and I enjoyed reading this very much!

Kathleen Blake

"When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass,
and the sun drips honey."
Laurie Lee

Sven

Member Laureate

since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

4 posted 2001-05-02 08:43 PM

indeed. . . there are too many tinmen walking around these days. . .

excellent VAS. . .

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To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world.

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

5 posted 2001-05-02 10:20 PM

That would be great Sven if there were too many, but I think it's impossible to have too many like the tinman in my poem. Like the one in Oz, he did many deeds that were led by his heart and just didn't realize it at the time. I guess it was as if he just couldn't do enough to make himself believe that he had a heart.

Everyone, thank you for reading and your wonderful comments. I'd write more but I need to leave for choir practice.

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