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Patricia
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since 2003-04-06

Posts 2160
Missouri

0 posted 2004-01-19 08:05 PM

Surrender with a Sigh

Hidden in this heirloom,
keepsakes bureau’d for me.
Just an antique catcher
of lasting memories.

Sachet’d by potpourri,
scented in yellowed time,
people, places pictured
in poems penned in rhyme.

Each touched by its own wand,
perfumed by yesterday,
a lifetime of love and living
in drawers of disarray.

Though tucked in one corner
with such apparent care,
a handkerchief folded,
pressed to a perfect square.

Again to know its solace,
I trace fingers across its lace
To breath in its sweet comfort
I brush frill against my face.

This weave my soul once held,
then soaked in salted sorrow
of tears of yesteryears
and promises of tomorrow

Now once again this lace
could dry a teary eye.
Yet I’d rather waive the white
and surrender with a sigh.

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

1 posted 2004-01-19 09:19 PM

*sigh* a beautiful, soulful write

steavenr
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since 2003-11-17

Posts 4058

2 posted 2004-01-19 09:23 PM

Pat,

I swear each time I read your next new creation, I find it better than before. This was truly exquisite. It is absolutely wonderful!!! 4 *'s out of 4

Youngatheart
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since 2003-12-30

Posts 333

3 posted 2004-01-19 09:49 PM

Now I will borrow the lace handkerchief....this is wonderful.

Greeneyes

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since 2000-09-09

Posts 9903
In Your Poetic Mind

4 posted 2004-01-19 10:17 PM

sigh....Id rather too....nicely said beautifully written

~*~
In your light I learn how to love
In your beauty how to make poems
You dance inside my chest where
no one sees you and that sight becomes art

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

5 posted 2004-01-19 10:41 PM

You know who and I
are really glad to see this!

Cpat Hair

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since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

6 posted 2004-01-20 09:18 AM

nicely done Patricia.. nicely done indeed.

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

7 posted 2004-01-20 09:21 AM

Beautifully penned Patricia..
such a soft elegant touch your pen has.
Hugs~

In the midst of winter..
I found there lives within me,
an invincible summer.

J.Samm
Member

since 2004-01-12

Posts 415
Iloilo City, Philippines

8 posted 2004-01-20 09:41 AM

"Now once again this lace
could dry a teary eye."-- i loved these lines, sweet and sentimental. touched.

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

9 posted 2004-01-20 09:42 AM

Patricia~
This poem is of special significance to me ... without knowing ... you knew and I am so pleased to have printed this one out and tucked it in a special drawer that holds my collection of laced memoried handkerchiefs of the past~

Thank you~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram <))><

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Janet Marie
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since 2000-01-22

Posts 18554

10 posted 2004-01-20 01:22 PM

Patricia.. this is just so very lovely...
what a pleasure to read aloud...delicate images wrapped in rhyme...lovely indeed.

How foolish must man be, not to be impressed by mountains and trees
not to be brought to his knees by the beauty of the sky and sea

Cherokee Lore

Ericc
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since 2003-01-31

Posts 4178

11 posted 2004-01-20 03:12 PM

Lyrical...beautifuly written!

Eric

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