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The Vase of Beauty...a thank you to my son
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The Vase of Beauty...a thank you to my son |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan 
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The Vase of Beauty Fragrant lilies opening their hearts to his mother |
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Mysteria 
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
Ah I loved this and can't you remember that first dandelion he picked and handed you. I remember my son in this Lyra, and this memory you have given me this day is a treasure, both in my mind and your poetry. |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Thanks so much, Sharon....Yes, I remember he brought me a whole bouquet of ya-yees...and I put them in a little tiny glass...but he wanted me to EAT them. this was a little boy with a voracious appetite...he thought everything was food... I think he still does, but he controls himself now. I was just so moved that he picked out my very favorite flowers and he put the marigolds in there because it was the closest he could get to dandelions...that I cried when I got it.  ~mothering hugsLyra |
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Mistletoe Angel
since 2000-12-17
Posts 32816Portland, Oregon |
"but the love he sends seeps from this vase of beauty and my boundless love for him breaks years of always"  (smiles) Oh Lyra, this brought a tear to my eye reading this, this is soooooo beautiful and I know your son will always love you so so much forever and ever as his heart continues to grow with the spirit of that sweet dandelion boy in him! (kiss on cheek) This is sooooo lovely, sweet friend, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Lyra, thank you for sharing!  May love and light always shine upon you! Love, Noah Eaton "Underneath your clothes there's an endless story..." |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Yes! How I understand this poem! You've done more than pen a treasure, you've created a Keeper! THIS poem shall be framed and alongside the painting...Yes! |
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Gentle Spirit Member Patricius
since 2000-10-09
Posts 13989 |
Yes Lyra, I remember the first time April gave me a flower from the yard. Just the other day she brought my favorites home to me from the lilac bush. This is indeed a keeper as Karilea said, to be framed, and treasured. Mother hugs to you Lrya.  Like a red brick, |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Lyra, You have captured a whisp in the wind and that is hard to do. A classic an epopee. |
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Greeneyes
since 2000-09-09
Posts 9903In Your Poetic Mind |
Lyra~ what a tender memory of time....I have all of Tyler's flowers she picked for me pressed in a book....hugssss to you sweet lady... Lauren~ I would rather have one breath of his hair, |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
Lyra, if all of us could show the love for our children as you do your own...what a gentle and loving earth this would be... Beautiful words and feelings conveyed with the passion of a kind and loving mother... |
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NewEnglandlazurlu Member Rara Avis
since 2002-01-04
Posts 7470A Mountain Paradise |
What a beautiful poem and loving tribute to a son who obviously has a heart of love for you. Oh, how we Mom's remember those bouquets of dandelions and how special and precious they were. Hope you are feeling well - hugs, Marti " My wrinkles are badges of courage and reveal that I am a Mother." |
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skyshine
since 2002-02-07
Posts 3058Beneath the northern stars |
Children are so precious, Lyra. I enjoyed reading your memories here.  ~sky You look inside my wild mind |
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ecrivan Member Elite
since 2001-12-10
Posts 3923my own state |
reminds me of the bouquets of dandilions we'd collect ( and how they found there way to the waste bin..hehe)..enjoy the write |
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coyote Senior Member
since 2001-03-17
Posts 1077 |
Very beautiful expression of a mother's emotions. coyote |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Thanks so much, Noah...He was looking for wildflowers with dandelions in the bouquet, but he couldn't find any because they are considered weeds...and the closest he could come was yellow marigolds.... But I was just SO touched that he had picked out EXACTLY the flowers I love.  ~dandelion hugsLyra |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Thanks so much, Karilea...for your enthusiastic reply. I emailed Victor this poem this morning and wanted him to read it before I sent it out to the rest of my email list. No one answered his phone, so I tried his cell phone and someone who sounded EXACTLY like victor...but with a foreign accent answered...and I was sure that it was victor playing a prank because he always does great impersonations...but he called me back later and it turned out that I had REALLY dialed the wrong number. I sure hope that other guy didn't have caller ID because I kept accusing him of being Victor and telling him it was his mom..."please stop fooling around" I kept yelling at him!   ~embarassed mommy hugsLyra |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Thanks so much, Donna... When they're little, they bring you sweet bouquets they can pick...and when they grow up and have money...they buy you expensive bouquets and the flower man delivers them... But this was so sweetly thought out, with all of my favorite flowers, that it made me cry...especially the yellow marigolds because he couldn't find the dandelions anywhere! ~loving mommy hugsLyra |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Thanks so much Sy, thanks to you, I now have a new word in my vocabulary. I didn't know what an epopee was, so I looked it up in the dictionary....and I am very flattered.  ~ thanking you hugsLyra |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Thanks so much Lauren, I wish I had thought to press the flowers my kids brought me when they were little...thats a great idea. ~loving hugs to another motherLyra |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Thank you so much Barry...that is such a sweet reply...I will treasure it...I think every mother loves her children that way, but not every mother happens to be a poet. ~poet mom hugsLyra |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Thanks so much, Marti...Yes the bouquets of dandelions...the ya-yees (he called all his food ya ya), but he thought I was supposed to eat them and not put them in a little vase! I guess he knows better now  ~sweet mothering hugsBTW, I am feeling better at the moment, having finished radiation treatments...which were horrible. But on June 5, I see my oncologist and get the results of the CT scan I will have on June 3...I am really scared....but in my heart I think the tumor is gone and my symptoms are gone! thanks for asking Lyra |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Thanks so much, Sky...I'm glad you enjoyed the poem. Victor was an especially sweet little boy...always into mischief....now he's all grown up and...always into mischief! ~smiling mother hugsLyra |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Thanks Martin...My bouquets didn't go into the garbage until they were VERY dead! But Victor really wanted me to eat them, and not put them in water...LOL ~flower eating mommy hugsLyra |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Thanks so much for your reply, Coyote... One of these days we can get the Israel thread back going again...but I am all Israeled out for the moment!  ~lots of hugsLyra |
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