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Ratleader

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0 posted 2006-04-20 12:34 PM

I Know What Boaz Knew

You comfort me with apples
that you glean along the way;
carry my heart as if it were
precious as rubies, precious as you.

You lift me stronger than seven sons,
and follow me among the stones of life
poised to share your last mite
when my towers fall.

Closer than any hand,
closer than my own hand you wait,
your smile valiant, believing, while you
carve me from raw granite, a man.

I dare not ask why you lay your treasure
at my feet, yourself, at my feet;
nor how you've turned my stolid sheaves,
long cut and bound, into a garden.

And this, your greatest kindness,
that you give for love, holds forever;
though we had been childless,
my line begins with you.

Goldenrose
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since 2003-05-30

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1 posted 2006-04-20 05:15 AM

Enjoyed this read on devotion...some fine and noble words here..thank you Ed..

Goldenrose.

StevenS
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2 posted 2006-04-20 06:23 AM

Excellent write Ratleader! Excellent knowledge! :-)

luminosity
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3 posted 2006-04-20 10:09 AM

oh wow......what power lies within these lines......within the soul of the writer

Seymour Tabin
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Tamarac Fla

4 posted 2006-04-20 11:11 AM

Ratleader
You have returned the apples diped in carmel. Excellent write.

Martie

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5 posted 2006-04-20 12:10 PM

Ed...One of your very best!! So many wonderful lines, and the sentiment is worthy of the greatest love!

suthern

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since 1999-07-29

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6 posted 2006-04-20 03:00 PM

I tried to copy my favorite lines... but each and every one is sheer perfection. *S*

It is easy to read this and see a fortunate man... but how very, very lucky is the woman who's so deeply appreciated. This is love... and it's written beautifully!!!

Copperbell
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7 posted 2006-04-20 08:56 PM

This is beautiful

The Lady
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8 posted 2006-04-21 12:18 PM

"my line begins with you"

It's the ending that makes it all so beautiful. Such a powerful love.

passing shadows
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displaced

9 posted 2006-04-21 08:01 AM

Toerag
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Ala bam a

10 posted 2006-04-21 08:55 AM

Must be nice to know of a love like this....mine's kinda like the old BB King song, "Nobody Loves Me but my mama, and she could be jivin' too"....

Ericc
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since 2003-01-31

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11 posted 2006-04-22 04:28 PM

Excellent write Ed...with a truly beautiful ending.

Eric

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