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Open Poetry #22

Because I love Spring

Streen
Member

since 2001-11-28

Posts 169

0 posted 2002-10-08 09:15 PM

I think of childhood when I glance
to the photo of you beside my bed.

Daffodils seemed to smile in waves back then,
even dandelions could be rolled in May
through the folds of my shirt.

(Mother told me a picture
is worth a thousand words.)

Wolfgang slept beside me one Christmas
morning when I was 10 or so.
The fire was blazing. His fur
coat warmed my sweater and cheek. I recall
knowing he would be with me forever.

Times were happy, then,

he died one summer.
We buried him in the backyard
right next to the hemlock, and
I cried over him, too.

(Not even a thousand words
could describe the wag of his tail.)

And I weep to think that the spring
in your eyes cannot be contained
by any number-worded picture.

Because I love Spring.

Sunshine

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

1 posted 2002-10-08 09:20 PM

Derek, there are not enough words
to tell you what this made me
think of, and how it made me feel...

thank you!

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