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Balladeer

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0 posted 2001-12-05 12:44 PM

Please take me back to yesterday
So I can look with childish eyes
At Life with wonder and surprise
Imagination on display
In youthful days of yesterday.

Please take me to those golden days
When innocence protected me
With young invincibility
Against the harshness of Life's ways
That superceded golden days.

The roads were always smooth back then
The sun was always high
The clouds resembled fairy-tale
Castles in the sky.
The dark clouds hadn't gathered yet
To desecrate my day
And love was not an instrument
Of heartache and dismay.

Please take me back to yesterday
Allow me one last chance to live
Amid the hope Life had to give
Before she took them all away
In days that followed yesterday.

Duncan
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1 posted 2001-12-05 02:04 AM

Think maybe I could hook a ride? Perfect.

doreen peri
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2 posted 2001-12-05 02:21 AM

*sigh*

ok

Kethry
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3 posted 2001-12-05 02:27 AM

Deer,
you are well named, when you make us laugh you do so with style and panache...but when you make us cry...there is no-one who can compare. *Soft sighs* for this one.
Keth

Here in the midst of my lonely abyss, a single joy I find...your presence in my mind. Unknown

texasrose
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4 posted 2001-12-05 06:01 AM

Your words often move me Balladeer, but none have ever touched me as this has. Splendid!

Bec
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5 posted 2001-12-05 06:44 AM

Balladeer... Memories of my own childhood... *smile* thank you for helping me to remember.

Bec

"Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you."
-Winnie-the-Pooh

Lady In White

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6 posted 2001-12-05 08:50 AM

Kethry's said it best...you're the best at getting us to look inside...

and making us all work a little harder to make these days what yesterday was...

Marsha

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7 posted 2001-12-05 08:52 AM

'Deer dear heart, Noody does it better than you, absolutely fantastique, formidable, don't forget the french accent

And again you have the tears starting to gather in my eyes, do you have to be soooooooo good at writin emotions? Yes I suppose you must. I shall need one of your jokes now to balance it out. Pretty please I know that into every life a little rain must fall but between you and Keth I've been getting everone's share

Truly wonderful my dear friend, you really are outstanding. And no wonder all those other poets are gnashing their teeth in impotent fury, it must be soooooo galling to be consistantly out gunned, out matched and out ranked.

I love this one, absolutely excellent

Love and warm stuff
as always
Mushy

To give light to them that sit in darkness..... to guide our feet into the way of peace St John ch2 v1

Seymour Tabin
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8 posted 2001-12-05 08:59 AM

Mike,
Challange met but
I did enjoy my yesterday and
Still enjoy today. LOL
Wonderful write.

LngJhnAg
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9 posted 2001-12-05 09:05 AM

'Deer - I really like the form, and the change in form with this poem. I can tell you worked on it with skill and some patience, as changing form in midstream like that always sets me back when I write. This is well written. And yes, I'm posting a serious response. Nice job, Miguel.

N orth Carolina Girl
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10 posted 2001-12-05 09:06 AM

Beautiful sentiments!

Juanita

Marge Tindal

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11 posted 2001-12-05 11:01 AM

Oh,Balladeer~
Just a great big *sigh* of love for you and your talent~

Love you~
*HUG*
~*Marge*~

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

peaches73533
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12 posted 2001-12-05 11:03 AM

Your words always move me as does this.Beautiful but sad write. You have touched my heart once more.
Peaches

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Deep in the heart

13 posted 2001-12-05 11:13 AM

Outstanding!
What a wish.
Better than millions of dollars, eh what?!?

Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart and write.

Irish Rose
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14 posted 2001-12-05 03:28 PM

Oh, oh, I would love to write something beautiful about yesterday! I wonder if I could? I will try

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

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15 posted 2001-12-05 04:01 PM

Balladeer! Very nicely done! But, you can come to my house and I'll show you the fairies at the bottom of my garden.

~hugs, Nancy~

"A dream is a wish your heart makes..."

Hypnosis
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16 posted 2001-12-05 05:45 PM

Ah, yes, the sweet time of childhood, the time when everything seems fine and there are no troubles. Im going to miss those times, i am 17 quickly moving farther and farther away from these times. *sigh* yep, but theres only one way to look for me at my age and that is forward. Great poem, i enjoyed it very much

Randy Meador

a life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.

Titia Geertman
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17 posted 2001-12-05 07:44 PM

That's not fair
You already got your book

Why do I always have to smile
when I see your name in blue?
Because I know when I click on it
I'll see pretty things written by you

Titia

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Denise

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18 posted 2001-12-05 07:50 PM

I've got the bus packed and gassed up....let's go!

SmartChick
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19 posted 2001-12-05 08:08 PM

I am ready to go back to yesterday. Can I go too? I love to read your poems. Somehow they seem to make me feel a little more peaceful inside.

Startime
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20 posted 2001-12-05 08:13 PM

*giggling* being the dreamer I am makes it easy for me to be there. I just close my eyes and let the fantasies weave themselves...*wink* want to come with me on my next flight of fantasy, dear Balladeer? **hugs**

Love I leave with you whether it is in your life now or yet the essense of your dreams.

Balladeer

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21 posted 2001-12-05 08:40 PM

Thank you all for the wonderful replies. Yesterday is certainly a place many of us would like to see again for a variety of reasons...but life always moves on, doesn't it?

I can't answer individual replies here because I'm fighting a losing battle with a migraine but please know I appreciate every one of you....thank you!

Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

22 posted 2001-12-08 06:37 PM

Hope the migraine's disappeared, 'Deer, 'cause I'm taking this ditty of yesterday, Back to the Top...

Honeybee
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23 posted 2001-12-08 09:13 PM

This is just so touching and sad, excellent expression as always, Michael!

And, here's a big ole hug for you

I need my cutie pattootie feeling better soon!

Melissa~

"Poetry is not an opinion expressed...
it is a song that rises from a bleeding
wound...or a smiling mouth"

~Kahlil Gibran~

Midnitesun

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24 posted 2001-12-08 09:18 PM

My yesterdays were not always so sunny or bright, so I'm sure happy to share some of yours tonight. Well done.

Rogue24
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25 posted 2001-12-08 10:01 PM

Quite a verse! Wow! It's been quite a day of memories, a day unlike the norm. Words, although small in size can sometimes have the biggest effect on a heart. Thank you for this write! It is truly inspiring to express myself on paper. CheerS!
Ter.

Alone in the dark, through my thoughts comfort I do seek, through my words I find peace.

Justbleu
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26 posted 2001-12-08 10:05 PM

I wish you could go back to yesterday Mr. 'Deer!!!

You have a way with words as always!!!!!

Bridgette

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27 posted 2001-12-09 10:45 AM

And love was not an instrument
Of heartache and dismay.

It does seem to be a tool of hurt these days. I enjoyed this reminisce of yesterdays more subtle and caring ways. Challenge well met and expressed.

Sincerely,
Regina

Charisma

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28 posted 2001-12-09 11:01 AM

*SIGH*
YOU are soooooooooooo amazing with words and it's not fair that you always got me *sighing*, think you only write for me to make me sigh right.....

ok....ok.....this one is superb as usually

((hugs))
Charisma

[This message has been edited by Charisma (edited 12-09-2001).]

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