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jellybeans Member Elite
since 2000-10-13
Posts 2298
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When you were taken away my days were solitary and devoid of choices. Putting life into its proper places faded into irrelevance; so thoughts just hang, some connected but most merely draped, all trapped in the slender strings of time’s web. Yesterday’s tidiness is nowhere to be found, and tomorrow’s clutter threatens multiplicity. From procrastination’s threads only a fleeting solace can be woven. I am aghast at the possibility of every memory, categorized, sorted and stored, of never scanning across a melody, earlier shared, with which happiness fondly lingers or under the sifting of time’s passing bumping into a lightly layered I love you, stirring it from its resting place. And if there were no petal’d remains between aged pages waiting to slip out and connect the corners of mouths to little ones shining faces and outreached hands… or remember when’s loitering looking forward to discovery’s rescue from old boxes pensively closed and stuffed away in dark places? And could your favorite shirt found, ketchup stain remaining, now too small for the present possibly bring back both fondness and lament? And so I find clutter less appalling than before... for if one supposes that each utterance had need to be dusted tucked tacked folded labeled and put away, and in opposition to clutter, the fullness of each day, neatly filed, in its proper place and time… in all that neatness, then where, pray tell, would sanity lie? For without memories of you, even if only in fleeting visits, I know these gray streaked days would not be bearable. [This message has been edited by jellybeans (09-30-2004 09:41 AM).] |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
DearestJellyGirl~ 'bumping into a lightly layered I love you, stirring it from its resting place' Oh how you dust sweet memories dearest lady~ *Hugging* you REAL TIGHT~  *Huglets*  ~*Marge*~ ~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost, |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
"For without memories of you, even if only in fleeting visits, I know these gray streaked days would not be bearable." This, and the ketchup stains.... heart hugs, from across the miles of memories. |
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Martie
Moderator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Jellybeans I understand this so well....it brought me some tear stains that I saved because they were on something that I couldn't bear to throw away. Heart hugs to you! |
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DavePage Member Elite
since 2003-12-21
Posts 2917 |
Well written and a meaning that understands Dave |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
"tomorrow’s clutter threatens " oh my and this? totally priceless: am aghast at the possibility of every memory, categorized, sorted and stored, of never scanning across a melody, earlier shared, with which happiness fondly lingers or under the sifting of time’s passing bumping into a lightly layered I love you, stirring it from its resting place. And if there were no petal’d remains between aged pages waiting to slip out and connect the corners of mouths to little ones shining faces and outreached hands… or remember when’s loitering looking forward to discovery’s rescue from old boxes pensively closed and stuffed away in dark places?" Reminds me of Tull--Thick as a Brick: "spin me back down the years and the days of my youth draw the lace and black curtains and shut out the whole truth-- spin me down the long ages - let them sing the song." I'd love to have a conversation, earnest, tongues loosened by merlot. Amazing lady. |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
This....so full of wistful love. I know this love, though I only have the weaker portion that is a man's...I will never know what it brings a woman. I'm exploring this morning, and I'm so glad I started here. ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
When I read this in email, my eyes were colored with love... and I was filled with emotions. Today, I read it again... and the love is still there and the emotions are still overwhelming and my heart still aches to hold you... but I can now appreciate it for the poetry... and the poetry is superb! *S* An astounding write, my friend... with an ending that slips right into the recognition of anyone who knows loss. |
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