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On Growing |
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Temptress
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-06-15
Posts 7136Mobile, AL 
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Here is another rough one from my notebook, folks.  It has been revised a bit. The rhyme is rough, but it goes with the flow of the way I was feeling. LOL! Hmm...maybe I could just call the rough spots in my flow the bumps of my thoughts pondering toward poetry and message?  Wonder if anyone would buy that. Enjoy! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (January 3, 2002) If I am from a girl, a woman turning then let me have the love for which I am yearning. Let sorrow's tears no longer take me. Allow from me the beauty that could be. For I have offered to adulthoood, every yellow rose I could asking for its hand in friendship and peace where a girl once stood. But now the void, it crashes toward that little girl comes back for the woman is a coward. If love and innocence and tears do stop then let the little girl in me remember every drop. If my heart was but an unplucked bud ill in rising to its flower perhaps the petals outreached to you could make woman within the hour? But pray, my mind does, on me tell Doubt and indecision burst from my soul and swell. My path is wrapped in unmade decisions. Girl and woman move toward division. One before the other has had its day Now chains of something harder do, my will, slay. But do I dream of false thunder This woman's decision that I am under? Is being the grown one as bad as perceived By a little girl, who for love, has not properly grieved? And if I am girl to woman turning Ohh, let me have the kind love For which the little girl has been yearning. |
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Irish Rose Member Patricius
since 2000-04-06
Posts 10263 |
that's right, a yellow rose DOES signify friendship doesn't it? Maybe that's why they are my favorite. I liked this one, Jenn. Kathleen--(Kay) |
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strbbux Member Elite
since 2001-12-19
Posts 3859 |
I love yellow roses and this was a great poem. floria |
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Mistletoe Angel 
since 2000-12-17
Posts 32816Portland, Oregon |
  (smiles) Soooooo beautifully bittersweet, sweet friend, again you amaze me! The spirit of the girl will always shine in your loving heart, smiling and laughing with the beauty of innocence, while you carry on with your womanly love and faith too, spreading your hearts wings to the light! (kiss on cheek) You are a yellow rose to us all, sweet friend, you are a friend in all our hearts! We all love you so much, sweet friend! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Jennifer, thank you for sharing! May love and light always shine upon you! Love, Noah Eaton |
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Startime Member Ascendant
since 2000-10-03
Posts 5918Canada |
Oh my gosh...such yearning for the love you so desire....amazing in it's force and power...heartbreaking in it's need...**big hugs** may you get what your heart seeks. Love I leave with you whether it is in your life now or yet the essense of your dreams. |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
do all children dream of finding their true love??? it would seem so. . . wonderful from you. . . --------------------------------------------------------- To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world. |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
Wow...a lot of depth, questions and feelings within this poem...Certainly a girl becoming a woman could feel this... |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
"Is being the grown one as bad as perceived By a little girl, who for love, has not properly grieved? And if I am girl to woman turning Ohh, let me have the kind love For which the little girl has been yearning." A nice marriage of inner child and Adult! There is much in this poem to admire, but the above spoke most clearly to me! Loved it. |
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