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Open Poetry #36

There Are Times...

nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

0 posted 2005-10-05 06:11 PM

"A smile happens in a flash,
but the memory of it can last a lifetime"

Today, she would have been sixty-three,
a redhead by choice, tall and slender,
Mother of three sons each so very different,
yet each so much a part of her.

Too tired to find the tears of missing.
Instead each day wondering
if she would be proud of me,
knowing how hard I had been struggling
to remake my life.

Taught me how to be a tower of strength,
when all around me was collapsing,
long before her health began to fail.

I can't visit her today in body,
but fixed upon my mind is her smile
and the thought that there are times
I see her in my mirror...

Those times when her smile becomes mine.

M

"Love is not blind - It sees more and not less, but because it sees more, it is willing to see less."
(Will Moss)

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

1 posted 2005-10-05 06:32 PM

Maureen

"I can't visit her today in body,
but fixed upon my mind is her smile
and the thought that there are times
I see her in my mirror...

Those times when her smile becomes mine."

I feel these same feelings about my mom.

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

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Gaia

2 posted 2005-10-05 06:38 PM

oh my, M
this is so beautiful!

Janette

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since 2001-07-20

Posts 2843
Chicagoland for now

3 posted 2005-10-05 07:22 PM

WOW!

This one took my breath away.

Fabulous write.

always seeking joy, adventure and romance and wishing you find the same

garysgirl

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since 2002-09-29

Posts 19237
Florida, USA

4 posted 2005-10-05 07:32 PM

Oh Maureen, this really touched my heart. I could
feel how much you are missing your sister.
My thoughts and prayers are with you, Sweetie.
Hugs,
Ethel

nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

5 posted 2005-10-06 11:49 AM

Thank you...it is hard to believe that it has been a little over a year ago...
so much has happened since.

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