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1slick_lady Member Ascendant
since 2000-12-22
Posts 6088standing on a shadow's lace 
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Pretend if I pretended that I didn’t love you would it go away when I was a girl my sisters and I tied June bugs to strings and let them float in cotton clouds of blue like they were kites or funny balloons when we were all done we let them go flying free and as I look back on that at the end of the day all we really had still was a bunch of bugs that were tied to a string “all romantics meet the same fate”…Joni Mitchell |
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seraphin Senior Member
since 2000-09-24
Posts 1004Michigan |
Trust me on this...it doesn't go away. I loved the story, I loved the ending. So nice to see you post. Sandra |
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The Lady Member Rara Avis
since 2005-12-26
Posts 7634The Southwest |
Sandra's right it doesn't go away at least the June bugs took flight... I love this Helen |
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SmartChick Member Rara Avis
since 2001-09-23
Posts 7081On A Journey To The Unknown |
No, my dear, it won't go away. I tried that. |
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jwesley Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563Spring, Texas |
Hey you . . . it's not supposed to go away. If it does it wasn't true in the first place. Real love never goes away; is never lost; never just disappears as some say. You don't fall out of love . . . maybe out of lust, or want, or see what you believe is greener grass, or don't like the one you love anymore, but if one loves . . . really loves, it never, ever goes away. And for those of us who love and don't have all the other reasons for leaving, that's especially hard to accept, so we ask, as you so aptly did "if I pretended that I didn’t love you would it go away". No. ~~~ j. |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
I can just imagine you with those bugs it does bring a smile, like you never fail to do |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
what Jimmy said.  |
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HopeS Member Elite
since 2000-12-22
Posts 4596Perth Western Australia |
It remains forever etched Hope |
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garysgirl  
since 2002-09-29
Posts 19237Florida, USA |
I agree with the others....even if we pretend it was nothing. If it actually was something, it's still there. It will never leave completely. Hugs, Ethel  |
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aziza Member Elite
since 2006-07-09
Posts 2995Lumpy Oatmeal makes me Crazy! |
We can wish, sometimes, that it would go away. But, I think love lingers in our memories to help us reach out again. It's that part that is painful but -- we remember the beauty too. Like your poem, I will remember the beauty of this poem .. and the June Bugs. I have never seen a June Bug. |
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marcel Senior Member
since 2003-03-02
Posts 660az, usa |
and to think we stop playing games as an adult..it all seems to come full circle once we finally understand...slickly written. |
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