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Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

0 posted 2006-01-07 07:47 PM

Keeping the Love

I thought of you today
[I think of you every day]
but today, especially…

and I left off putting the ornaments away,
for it occurred to me that if it could stay
one more day,
your small rocking horse
hanging on the Christmas tree,

then I would feel, when I could watch it
move slightly as houses rock
in the wind or by footstep,
lightly, just so…

that I might keep your love visible,
a little closer ~

I thought of you today
[I think of you every day]

as the month is a week closer
to next year’s time, so soon,

I wrapped the small little horse
in tissue and love,
its tail a bit ragged from the years
of coming forth, and delighting eyes,
remembering the last time
you touched it.

It may be out of sight,
as are you,

but certainly not out of mind,
so it is safe, again,
both, all, mine, yours, yes,
all wrapped up, this mother love,

in tissue, and prayers.

~*~

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

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California

1 posted 2006-01-07 08:03 PM

ahhh, sissie...where oh where is the tissue warning? I have so many of these memories tucked away in a special box. You have reminded me to take them out soon, and touch them as if...well, you know.

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

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Florida's Foreverly Shores

2 posted 2006-01-07 08:27 PM

Karilea~
Just look at us sentimental sisters boo-hooing at the tenderest of memories you stirred~

Thankee~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*No matter what I search for ...
let me know when it is LOVE that I find*~ <))><

Email - noles1@totcon.com

Fagin
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since 2004-05-07

Posts 126
Ca

3 posted 2006-01-07 09:05 PM

Once again you play the heartstrings in a symphony of love... this was wonderful

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

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Canada eh.

4 posted 2006-01-07 09:17 PM

Beautiful, touching and tender.
And, very good to see your brother respond.

Hugs~Nancy

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

Magnus

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since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

5 posted 2006-01-07 09:18 PM

Dang, I go from one tear jerker to another
one...sheesh, this has gotta slow down...

Hugs dear one....lots of them....

Dominique-Simone
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since 2005-11-12

Posts 643

6 posted 2006-01-07 10:30 PM

Very endearing... I love it

iliana
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since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

7 posted 2006-01-08 12:41 PM

Karilea, this is going into my library to send to my Abby, if that's okay with you. She wasn't home for Christmas this year and was sorely missed. Very loving write.

...jo

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

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Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

8 posted 2006-01-08 02:21 AM

Fabulous...James

playing.with.crayons
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since 2006-01-02

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Neverland

9 posted 2006-01-08 02:46 AM

"I wrapped the small little horse
in tissue and love,
its tail a bit ragged from the years
of coming forth, and delighting eyes,
remembering the last time
you touched it."

brava! xxx

farewell the ash-tray girl

the grey
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since 2006-01-06

Posts 119
Queensland, Australia.

10 posted 2006-01-08 06:12 AM

G'day Kariela. My dear old mum just recently gave me something I had made at school so many many years ago, as she had kept it all that time. Her little rocking horse I guess. It's nice to be loved.

The Grey

Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.

nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29

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Between the Lines

11 posted 2006-01-08 06:53 AM

beautiful writing Karilea...I have many such ornaments although not for a child.

(still reading and savoring) btw...will be delivering tonight

M

SmartChick
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since 2001-09-23

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On A Journey To The Unknown

12 posted 2006-01-08 08:51 AM

Beautiful and touching, Karilea. Even with the sadness.

ice
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since 2003-05-17

Posts 3404
Pennsylvania

13 posted 2006-01-08 11:01 AM

We took our tree down yesterday
It had stopped drinking water-
Had no pulse, now its husk stands outside
by the birdfeeders...a chick a dee roost...
Dead, but still of use..

It saddened me to see it go, and even though this poem ranks high on the emotional scale, it made me happy...Perhaps because how well it explains...feelings of my own..

Thank You, Kari...For the beautiful verse..

________ ______ice
><>

kayjay
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since 2002-06-24

Posts 2015
Oregon

14 posted 2006-01-08 11:16 AM

For each of us, the slightest thought jars old memories to life and we are better for that.

You "jar" well. Ken

Through rubble and trouble and dark of night
The yawn of a dawn will hasten the light

Earth Angel
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Realms of Light

15 posted 2006-01-13 06:07 PM

Tender-hearted, keepsake of a poem. My eyes welled up with remembrances of my own. Nostalgia can have such a sweet sadness to, n'est-ce pas? (Can it not?)...

Love & Sun Light,
Linda

nakdthoughts
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Between the Lines

16 posted 2007-04-26 07:49 PM

loved the title~~ and the words~~

wanted to feel it again~~

M

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