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Fingering Love
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Fingering Love |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart 
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 It seems that my fingers use to be as busy as my mind, in ways only mothers understand. So, regardless if she were dressing for an infrequent evening out, or if we were day-busy folding towels or other laundry just in from sun and wind, if my thoughts were elsewhere, she would go to the cigar box of treasures, remove her beads, and say, here, add to them, or make the necklace shorter for me, and when you are done, we shall have tea. With dollies three, I would sit, and count, popping beads to lengthen strands to touch her breast, or choke her neck in the delicious color of her eyes, my only link to knowing I was really hers, all along… and in some way, they must have become akin to a rosary, and if that is sacrilegious, then a talisman, connecting mother, to me… for I remember counting dreams to bead, beads to thoughts, thoughts of how I might become as good as she, then shaking my curls in her sunshine, even as she made impossibilities seem…possible I hope they are somewhere safe now, if not in some wayside antique store, then in a cigar box, wrapped in white tissue, awaiting a mother’s amusement, as she slips her hand along her daughter’s tresses, patting her back, saying, here, add to them, make the necklace shorter for me, and when you are done, we shall have tea. ~*~ For all the sisters of Passions Karilea - if I whisper, will you listen? Keeping in mind, I must stand close... |
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Goldenrose Member Elite
since 2003-05-30
Posts 3665 |
This was so beautiful K..i love how you transported us back to your childhood..and allowed a brief but precious glimpse of a special moment between mother and daughter....touching and yet gentle as dragonflies's wings....thank you... Goldenrose. ''There is no need for temples, no need for complicated Philosophies. |
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inkedgoddess Member Rara Avis
since 2002-11-19
Posts 7392Ohio |
poignant and touching; i myself more and more see my own mom in me as i've taken on some of her ways |
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nakdthoughts Member Laureate
since 2000-10-29
Posts 19200Between the Lines |
"popping beads" how I remember..thank you Karilea *S M |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
Oh my! Thank you so much for the remember Karilea.. I had forgotten all about popping beads!! This is so lovely...beautiful thoughts. ~Smiles & Hugs, Nancy~ ~Somewhere in my heart I'm always |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
A delicate piece of a girls past...carried throughout the years within the heart of a woman...reflecting, remembeering and most assuredly.....smiling. |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Karilea How perfectly lovely this is...but you forgot the kleenex alert. My mother didn't have beads like that, but I spent alot of time sitting on the front porch, snapping beans.  |
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kayjay Member Elite
since 2002-06-24
Posts 2015Oregon |
Once I sat at my mother's hospital bedside, listening while my sister's "read" and replicated a crochet pattern that my grandmother had taught my mother. That cross generational picture will always be with me. Thanks for rekindling the memory. KJ |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
you brought back a few memories with this one, mama Karilea thank you |
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JL Member Ascendant
since 2004-04-01
Posts 6128Texas, USA |
This is very nice…. Do you have one for the Brothers too? JL   She said: ”You look cute in the dark.” |
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Ericc Member Elite
since 2003-01-31
Posts 4178 |
Ok...NOW I have found my favorite of yours. Eric |
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Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Karilea~ A lot of remember here~ And just this past Mother's Day ... I shared my mother's popper-beads with Delaney ... we had SUCH fun !  *Huglets* ~*Marge*~ ~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost, |
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muted
since 2004-01-15
Posts 2949Elapsing, Eclipsing, Evolving |
"for I remember counting dreams to bead, beads to thoughts, thoughts of how I might become as good as she, then shaking my curls in her sunshine, even as she made impossibilities seem…possible"  youve done it to me again! |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
absolutely stunning |
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Dark Angel Member Patricius
since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095 |
I remember my mother had bought me a necklace...I was stunned lol...shame I was too tom-boyish to wear it. Thanks for the memories Karilea yer beautiful. Mxx The clouds never expect it when it rains, but the sea, changes colour, but the sea, does not change. |
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Patricia Member Elite
since 2003-04-06
Posts 2160Missouri |
Well, Sister, your brought tears to my eyes with this one. You have reminded me how much a little girl looks to her mother and up to her mother. It's just Macy and me today (Chelsea has to gone to her dad's house). I think some quality bead adding is in order for the two of us! Hugs to you this Sunday! Patricia |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
My Dear Passionate Sister, my words cannot express how deeply I felt your words.  Hopefully, by my adding this poem to my trove of poetic treasures, I will be imparting at least some of this appreciation to you.Love & Light, Linda |
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