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The Complexity of My Complexion
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The Complexity of My Complexion |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia 
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The complexity of my complexion. Cracked porcelain in dancing shadows of time painting a line of experience across what once was a smooth visage. Days and years speak the stories, sometimes sad, not always full of grace. And yet I face this reflection without fear, without a tear. For I've been blessed with another year to add to the complexity of my complexion. |
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EagleOne Member Elite
since 2000-03-07
Posts 2829Between a laugh and a tear... |
Excellent, I very much enjoyed this. We are all just prisoners here of our own device ~ Hotel California, The Eagles |
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Kethry Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-29
Posts 9082Victoria Australia |
Midnitesun, very smooth write and I like the reflection in this. Write on Kethry Here in the midst of my lonely abyss, a single joy I find...your presence in my mind. Unknown |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Was that you I saw in my mirror? Welcome to my world... |
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Victoria
since 2000-08-12
Posts 5869 |
This was great...loved it...and hope we are blessed with many years to come  ~Victoria~ "Silence is a friend who |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Thank you dear friends. Reflective moods bring up a different shade of ink each year. This one is the new color of me. Acceptance, and moving forward. |
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Mistletoe Angel 
since 2000-12-17
Posts 32816Portland, Oregon |
 (big hugggsssssss) Sooooooo wonderfull written, sweet friend, this is such a wonderful expression of acceptance and having faith in oneself for whatever tomorrow brings! (kiss on cheek) May everyday be filled with great hope and happiness for you, sweet friend, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Kacy, thank you for sharing!  May love and light always shine upon you! Love, Noah Eaton |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Thanks sweet Noah. When you are a teenager you think you are invincible to the outward effects of time and experience. Then in your 40's you try to fight the evidence, or deny it. All of a sudden you reach the 50's and realize what is happening. Some still fight it, others deny it, and some of us accept it and say thank you God, for letting me get this far along my path. |
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rwood Member Elite
since 2000-02-29
Posts 3793Tennessee |
Coming into one's own feels great...wrinkles and all..skin just feels good to breathe in. I appreciate this view deeply. Thanks so much! Sincerely, Regina |
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SpitFire Member Elite
since 2000-04-19
Posts 2396 |
~I just love your new color, and this, how wonderful it is, and you, how wonderful you are. Thanks for an inspiring read Kacy. *Peace you. |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Well done, Kacy.....our complexions are so complex. The skin is actually the body's largest organ. I never had any complexion problems with zits and the like when I was a teenager...but yesterday morning I woke up with a large pimple right between my eyebrows, and I am a grandmother... I must be getting younger...right!  copyright2002 Lyra Nesius "poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks [This message has been edited by Madame Chipmunk (02-16-2002 05:30 PM).] |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Thank you, Regina. By your photo I'd guess you won't have this problem for a very long time. Spitfire, how nice of you to visit. Sigh, I finally realized I wasn't 25 anymore. Lyra, that is funny...at least from a distance. Let me know if and when the reversal takes place, I just may welcome a zit under those circumstances! |
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strbbux Member Elite
since 2001-12-19
Posts 3859 |
Wow what a great write, the complexity of my complexion, we all have those worries don't we,you make it fun. great write, floria Floria |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Floria, thanks for stopping by. That's the only way I can look at it. I've always heard frowning makes more wrinkles than smiling and laughing. |
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catalinamoon
since 2000-06-03
Posts 9543The Shores of Alone |
Well, that is an attitude I need to cultivate.Ya know, the wrinkle part doesn't bother me too much,but there are other..more insidious changes..Aack. Sandra |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
LOL, Sandra, yes there are some other things that aren't very pleasant, and each decade seems to bring on another unexpected aspect of growing up. |
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ShadowRider Senior Member
since 2001-07-14
Posts 1038USA |
Nice depth to this, a few layers deep (7 to be exact) and i get what you are saying about acceptance; our 'makeup' (no pun intended) and living with things that may disturb our self perception. Cool write, Amigo! tSR |
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Honeybee Member Ascendant
since 1999-12-26
Posts 5372Ontario, CANADA |
This is wise indeed, and a beautiful write at that, I will share this with my older family....very well said! Take care, Melissa~ "Poetry is not an opinion expressed... |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Shadowrider, thanks! I always enjoy your replies. Melissa, thank you, and hope they enjoy this. |
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Larry C
since 2001-09-10
Posts 10286United States |
Kacy, Don't look now! You're getting bumped for the rear. beep beep *bump*  |
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Interloper
since 2000-11-06
Posts 8369Deep in the heart |
what complexity your complexion speaks loudly of your character Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart and write. |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
OK bumper car dude, hugs to you. Aren't we having fun with middle aged games? Interloper, you always such a sweetheart.  |
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