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My Inner Garden |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light 
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 Artist: Carl Schweninger My Inner Garden ~ Linda L. Dowd ~ Tiptoe, ever so softly, through the garden in my heart. Crush not my budding dreams that they might blossom and grow. Step gently, my love. Bruise not the delicate petals of this flowering soul. Plant fertile seeds of kindness within the walls of my inner sanctum. Shower them with sweet words of love and shine your golden rays of sun upon the fragile flowers growing therein. Sprinkle them with acts of kindness and behold the beauty that abounds. Tend this garden, deep in the soul of me, with tender loving ways, so that I might touch blue skies and fly free among the stars. These rich and vibrant flowers, that dwell within the garden of my love, will be forever there for your plucking ~ and consummate loving pleasure... Nurture them with the essence of you, and let not the weeds of deception choke and bind the inner garden of one who loves you so. “We are born of star dust, And to the stars we shall one day return.” ~ Linda L. Dowd |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
profound, softly laiden words that gently describe needs...Linda, this touched the heart and is the way everyone should think and feel...love to you gal |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
Good morning, Lovely Lee! Your reply is as lovely as you yourself are! Thank you! Have a glorious day! ~ and year!  Linda |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Earth Angel To visit your garden is my goal It is the journey of my soul. |
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Nightshade 
since 2001-08-31
Posts 13962just out of reach |
Oh, my goodness what a beautiful write this is. Keepin' it I am I am !!  hugs, Chris Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
Linda - What a lovely walk through your romantic garden and I love this - "let not the weeds of deception choke and bind the inner garden of one who loves you so." The pity is that it so often happens in this world of ours. |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
Sir Sonneteer, you make a garden wherever you step! You seed the world with your flowering words!  Sending you a hug-o-love, EA |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
Chris you have me smiling from wing tip to wing tip with your enthusiastic and flattering reply! Warm hug and smile, Linda |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
Bunches of Honey ~ I am so pleased that you enjoyed the stroll through my romantic garden. Yes, 'tis sad that love is often destroyed by deceipt. May the strolls through the garden of your own loving heart, be joyous ones! Lovin' hug, Linda |
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iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
Everwise Earth Angel, you show the vulnerability and fragility of the deepest heart's yearing. I am adoring this write and it has a very personal meaning for me today. In a sense, it gives me strength. Missing you and sending hugs.....the lily lady |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
iliana ~ jo, my poem giving you strength, pleases me. However, your need for that added strength concerns me. Remember, I'm but an email or a phone call away! Giving you a loving hug, Linda |
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Goldenrose Member Elite
since 2003-05-30
Posts 3665 |
These word are like climbing clematis, flurrishing and growing, bursting with kindly delight...thank you Linda such beauty written here... Goldenrose. Desire for nothing except desirelessness,hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes, want nothing and you will have everything.avatar Meher Baba. |
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tracie66 Member Elite
since 2000-01-18
Posts 4713Australia |
breathtaking! this is so sensitive, tender and heartfelt...another fine one penned, another enjoyable poem. ~hugs~  Tracie Love is the life of the soul... |
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froggy Senior Member
since 2003-06-23
Posts 1893Michigan |
I repeat the words of those before me on this read. Beautiful read. :-) |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
froggy ~ That would be a lot of nice words that you would be ribbiting! ~ I mean, "repeating"!  Warm hugs 'n smiles, Linda |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
let not the weeds of deception choke and bind the inner garden of one who loves you so. Ah, sweet lady... I'm not surprised that such words tumble from your tender heart... but I am grateful. *S* Lovely write!!! |
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RedStoneEB Senior Member
since 2003-06-08
Posts 772uk |
Bravo! brilliant it's great. you always were the better poet |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
Suthern, that was especially sweet of you to say! Thank you! I always enjoy your visits, Belle. Hugs with love, Linda |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
RedStone ~ Oh, Lee, that was such an enthusiastic and complimentary reply ~ and I appreciate it. Please remember, my poet friend, that I am a fan of your poetry as well. Warm hug and a smile, Linda |
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EvocativeVerse2 Senior Member
since 2003-09-10
Posts 1279 |
Oh my EA...you are simply so wonderful. You have the greatest loving heart I have ever met. You truly are heaven sent. Bravo dearest friend. I applaude this! |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
oh my, EV2! Your highly flattering and most gratifying remarks have tinkled my cherubic cheeks pink! It is so nice to know that you enjoy my writing as much as I enjoy yours!  EA |
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littlewing Member Rara Avis
since 2003-03-02
Posts 9655New York |
Oh Linda, I do adore the undertones here, so extremely passionate, this is beautiful. |
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miscellanea Member Elite
since 2004-06-24
Posts 4060OH |
gorgeous writing with everything good one could wish for! You've refreshed me once again! miscellanea |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
littlewing ~ Sue, I am pleased that you appreciated the subtle sensuosity I was attempting to weave throughout the poem.  Linda |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
miscellanea ~ To be able to "refresh" you ~ refreshes me!  EA |
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Ceinwyn Member Elite
since 2000-07-09
Posts 2175VA |
 ever so romantic...you write with such grace and beauty...I'm sighing over here..Much love to you! If at first you don't succeed destroy all the evidence that you tried. |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
Ceinwyn ~ Your choice of a pen name, illustrates the romantic in you, my friend! You sigh with my poems of love ~ and I do yours! I am so pleased that you dropped by, Kristen! Sending you a big, loving hug, Linda |
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