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Madame Chipmunk
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since 2001-12-05

Posts 8296
Michigan

0 posted 2002-05-31 10:33 PM

I finally got em
I'm no longer blind
now all of the streets
are easy to find

I can even read
every letter in signs
no more excuses
to be late all the time

I can even discern
each blade of grass
and each speck of rust
on the old underpass

my car's speedometer
I can finally read
how did I ever not
get a ticket for speed

I now see each leaf
on every tree
instead of the blur
it all used to be

pricetags and sizes
at last I can see
its time for that splurge
on a huge shopping spree

but in the mirror
without sight impaired
I see lines and wrinkles
I thought weren't there

no wonder, I thought
I looked young for my years
my looks are much better
with vision unclear

But overall
I must say with glee
that life is much clearer
when I can see

Lyra

copyright2002 Lyra Nesius

"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

ThUnDeRkYsS
Senior Member

since 1999-09-23

Posts 727
Wisconsin

1 posted 2002-05-31 10:44 PM

LOL this is very cute, in the mirror you see the beauty of yourself a little clearer.

Those fine lines
defining your time
are nothing but proof
of how brightly you shine

Strive for higher levels, if they seem out of reach... Grow, and they will get closer.

Marsha

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since 2000-07-10

Posts 7423
Maidstone Kent England

2 posted 2002-05-31 10:53 PM

Lyra my dearest friend this is an absolutely wonderful piece from you. I love it, The flow and the structure of this is excellent, and the vision that you are is revealed to all. You really are a fine writer. I love this I really do, your vision is clear darling heart and my doesn’t your face suit you

This is exquisite writing darling absolutely exquisite, I love it utterly utterly

Love and warm stuff
As always
Mushy

Breathe through the heat of our desire
Thy coolness and they balm
Let sense be dumb let flesh retire
Speak through the eathquake wind and fire
Oh

Madame Chipmunk
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since 2001-12-05

Posts 8296
Michigan

3 posted 2002-05-31 11:14 PM

Thank you so much, Thunderskies....
I really enjoyed your little verse and I am so flattered by it too.

~ optical hugs

Lyra

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"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

Madame Chipmunk
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since 2001-12-05

Posts 8296
Michigan

4 posted 2002-05-31 11:16 PM

Thanks so much, Marsha...this is really true.
Its so nice to be able to see again.
I knew that I needed reading glasses, but my distance vision deteriorated so gradually that I didn't really notice it until I was trying to drive around Ann Arbor where I didn't know the street names and had to read them off the signs.
Here in Kalamazoo, I know all the names of the streets, so I never bother even to read the signs...which is probably why I didn't notice it until recently.

~ visionary hugs

Lyra

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"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

Balladeer

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since 1999-06-05

Posts 25505
Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA

5 posted 2002-06-01 12:05 PM

Well, It's about time you made a spectacle of yourself!!!

Congrats, Madame C!

Madame Chipmunk
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Posts 8296
Michigan

6 posted 2002-06-01 12:12 PM

Thanks Michael...I guess I have become a spectacle...
Are you still in Ohio,or are you back home where you can mess up your own butter....

I really loved that poem about your daughter's house and also the other one about your other daughter's graduation

~ visible hugs

Lyra

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"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

Mistletoe Angel

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since 2000-12-17

Posts 32816
Portland, Oregon

7 posted 2002-06-01 03:43 PM

(smiles) YAY!!! Oh Lyra, I know just how youn feel, sweet friend, when I was younger my eyesight was poorer and I am far-sighted, so my mom took me to eye therapy and it helped me adjust my eyes and for a while I wore spectacles, now my eyesight is great and if it ever happens again, I wouldn't mind wearing contacts or spectacles! (kiss on cheek) This is wonderful, sweet friend, I love it, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Lyra, thank you for sharing!

(BIGGGGGG FAR-SIGHTED HUGS!

)

May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

"Underneath your clothes there's an endless story..."

Shakira

blakloks
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since 2002-06-01

Posts 60

8 posted 2002-06-01 03:49 PM

great writing!

Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

9 posted 2002-06-01 04:01 PM

How clever of you, Lady C
to find with glasses, poetry
how now best to find your pen
to write us poems once again...

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

10 posted 2002-06-01 04:02 PM

Lyra

I know just what you mean...I just can see things close up. Glasses are a real eye opener..and this poem was adorable, sort of like you. Hugs!

GypsyRose
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since 2002-06-01

Posts 8
Oklahoma

11 posted 2002-06-01 04:18 PM

I think you look just fine.

Madame Chipmunk
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since 2001-12-05

Posts 8296
Michigan

12 posted 2002-06-01 06:19 PM

Thanks so much, Noah....I'm glad that you are seein so well nowadays...
I am both nearsighted and farsighted...
I never thought that was possible because I would think that one would cancel the other out...but I guess they don't. So my glasses are trifocals...for near, far and the computer...

~ great vision hugs

Lyra

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"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

Madame Chipmunk
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Posts 8296
Michigan

13 posted 2002-06-01 06:20 PM

blakloks, thanks so much for your reply, and welcome to Piptalk...
I'll be looking for your poems.

~ welcoming hugs

Lyra

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"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

Madame Chipmunk
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Posts 8296
Michigan

14 posted 2002-06-01 06:23 PM

Thanks so much, Karilea...
I love your little verse of a reply...
and now I can actually see it too!

~ hugs which can see

Lyra

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"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

Madame Chipmunk
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Posts 8296
Michigan

15 posted 2002-06-01 06:24 PM

Thanks so much, Martie...for your reply and also for your really CUTE compliment...

~ really cute hugs

Lyra

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"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

Madame Chipmunk
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since 2001-12-05

Posts 8296
Michigan

16 posted 2002-06-01 06:26 PM

Thanks so much, Gypsy...
Welcome to Piptalk...I will be sure to look for some of your poetry.

~ Welcoming hugs

Lyra

copyright2002 Lyra Nesius

"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

vandana

Member Patricius

since 1999-10-22

Posts 10463
USA

17 posted 2002-06-01 06:32 PM

enjoy your read

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

18 posted 2002-06-01 06:53 PM

Lyra, you are just so much fun
and are able to laugh and joke about
the serious side of life as well.
Enjoyed so much.
~Hugs~

~Somewhere in my heart I'm always
dancing with you in the summer rain~

Madame Chipmunk
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since 2001-12-05

Posts 8296
Michigan

19 posted 2002-06-01 07:11 PM

Thanks so much, Nancy...I do think that laughter is the best medicine.
They should have put some of it in my i.v. instead of the chemo.

~ hugs with clear vision

Lyra

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"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

DarkAngelChelle
Member

since 2001-12-06

Posts 87
Kansas

20 posted 2002-06-01 08:49 PM

Lyra,

Woohoo! Congratulations on being able to see the tangible things a little clearer! You were always able to see the other stuff, like inner beauty and the heartbeat of life, without your glasses. I could always tell that from your poetry.

There are some things that you don't need any help to see - some people just have that gift, and you are one of them!

~What is cherished most is what must be the hardest fought for.~

Madame Chipmunk
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since 2001-12-05

Posts 8296
Michigan

21 posted 2002-06-01 09:31 PM

Thanks so much for that magnanimous compliment, Chelle....
Its good to see you again...I've missed you.

~ visionary hugs

Lyra

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"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

22 posted 2002-06-02 12:27 PM

"no wonder, I thought
I looked young for my years"
ROTFLMAO. Sometimes a dimmer view of reality is better?

my3monkeytoes
Member

since 2002-05-11

Posts 152
In the Carolina Breeze

23 posted 2002-06-02 12:30 PM

This is so whimsical! Great humor!

~Sydney McLean

Madame Chipmunk
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since 2001-12-05

Posts 8296
Michigan

24 posted 2002-06-02 12:52 PM

Thanks so much, Vandana...I'm so glad you enjoyed it.

~ hugs

Lyra

copyright2002 Lyra Nesius

"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

Madame Chipmunk
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since 2001-12-05

Posts 8296
Michigan

25 posted 2002-06-02 12:53 PM

Thanks Kacy...you are so right...so, I will take those glasses off when I look in the mirror...but it sure is nice to see everything else...including everyone else's wrinkles that I didn't see before.

~ wrinkles and hugs

Lyra

copyright2002 Lyra Nesius

"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

Madame Chipmunk
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since 2001-12-05

Posts 8296
Michigan

26 posted 2002-06-02 12:55 PM

Thanks so much for your reply, Sydney...
and this is really a true story!

~ whimsical hugs of true vision

Lyra

copyright2002 Lyra Nesius

"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

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