Room to Room (the OOPS that never happened...)

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jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

0 posted 2005-03-15 08:00 PM

...this is the OOPS piece that wasn't and possibly never will be...I feel I can NEVER be equal to OOPS...hope it works at least a little though...j.

Room to Room
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Room to Room
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Going room to room I try to remember. . .
Everything,
Everything you ever said,
every dress you wore – or didn’t.
Everything you ever did that I noticed,
and all the things I never saw
but want to now.
Stopping in the doorway of the room we shared most,
I look at the vanity where you sat so many times
smiling back at me from the mirror,
and I feel in my heart the skipping that always occurred
when you caught me there.
I see that old night shirt of yours
across the arm of your chair,
your slippers sitting there . . .
I inhale slowly, deeply –
look up at the bed where you lay,
sheet tucked around your chin,
waiting – waiting
for me.

w. james beard, jr.
© march 2005

Martie

Moderator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

1 posted 2005-03-15 08:04 PM

Jimmy

Much emotional impact to your words....much more then the, "oops"!

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

2 posted 2005-03-15 08:11 PM

Jimmy, now this is an Oops worth waiting for!

Very lovely...much enjoyed m'friend.
Hugs~Nancy

For it was not into my ear you whispered
But into my heart
It was not my lips you kissed
But my soul

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

3 posted 2005-03-15 09:21 PM

smiling at you

Susan
Member Ascendant

since 2004-03-27

Posts 5104
walking the surreal

4 posted 2005-03-15 10:41 PM

You share such a lovely slice of life and love - thank you - you done good!

Susan

If I wander far enough, long enough, will I finally know . . .

Nightshade

Member Patricius

since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

5 posted 2005-03-15 10:47 PM

Oh, this is wonderful Jimmy.
Worth the wait indeed. hugs, Chris

"Nunc scio quit sit amor."
~ Virgil

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

6 posted 2005-03-16 12:44 PM

I don't know what the oops was about, but this....is the image of a soft and beautiful memory.

icebox
Member Elite

since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

7 posted 2005-03-16 04:44 AM

These are special thoughts.

Susan Caldwell
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

8 posted 2005-03-16 08:41 AM

heart wrenching.

"too bad ignorance isn't painful"
~Unknown~

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

9 posted 2005-03-16 03:26 PM

First you give us grins... then you squeeze our hearts... Beautiful work, my friend!

LeeJ
Member Patricius

since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

10 posted 2005-03-17 06:35 AM

this was a slam dunk to the heart Jimmy, meaning no disrespect what-so-ever, only to say, this touches the heart strings emmensly...

Hugs to you

vandana

Member Patricius

since 1999-10-22

Posts 10463
USA

11 posted 2005-03-17 10:58 AM

nice read

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