Tag: remembering
member name: Mary S.
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February 20, 2007 06:56 PM EST --
Frosty rides down old winding country roads in rickety, windy old pickup trucks that rattle and shake to the old hardware store, filled with the warm smells of popping corn, horse feed, and big . . . more
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January 20, 2008 12:34 AM EST --
When you make it through the fire
And dust off the soot and ash
To find that it's still there,
When you hack through brush and briar
Feeling weary from the dash
To find it . . . more
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May 02, 2008 02:37 PM EDT --
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December 13, 2007 10:07 AM EST --
Sometimes I think there's not much left
of that smiling face, that eager hopeful love.
Too many years of living
with one bad choice
weighs like a sack of armor, worn in defense, . . . more
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March 19, 2008 01:25 PM EDT --
Menghibahkan was a good mama.
She was young but attentive
And worked hard for her children,
Planting rice and sweet potatoes.
She taught her young ones
To sing the tribal . . . more
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March 24, 2008 08:28 PM EDT --
Close your eyes
Listen
Here in the leaves
Now in the "whys"
There in the song
Of the sweet sad owl
Near in the hollow
Of a lone wolf's howl
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August 16, 2007 05:48 PM EDT --
In this stressful world,
Yours is the presence that quiets me,
The voice that calms me,
The touch that comforts me...
...the love that helps me remember what is most important in each day. . . . more
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April 03, 2008 09:14 AM EDT --
Look on me with eyes made soft by love.
Hold gentle my heart always close to yours.
If you someday choose to sit upon a horse that's high,
View me with tepid judgment, knowing that I try. . . . more
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February 14, 2008 08:00 AM EST --
We hit the ground running
so fast, that before we realized it
we were flying.
The way each curve fit
into the other, and the extra arms
made it easy.
We both knew well the story . . . more
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March 04, 2008 11:35 AM EST --
The sky held the moment
Between a star and the moon
And the song of a whippoorwill
Fell through
A hole in the last note
Rose, a luminous balloon
Catching the oak tree's . . . more
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March 08, 2008 09:43 AM EST --
I wrote this awhile ago, and some of you may have read it already, but it fits well for this weeks challenge word, sacrifice.
What's Left When the Heart's Gone
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May 29, 2007 12:09 PM EDT --
In April 1862 General Ulysses S. Grant's army was encamped along the Tennessee River just north of the Mississippi border; poised to strike a blow into the heartland of the South. Grant had . . . more
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August 19, 2007 10:20 PM EDT --
It was late, almost 11 p.m., but still I sat and waited. I had been to visit my parents that weekend for Easter, and now it was Sunday night. He was supposed to be off by now, but intuition . . . more
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December 02, 2005 06:28 PM EST --
A Story Worth Telling
Sometimes rare and wonderful things happen in our lives, and we are forever changed. This story begins like many others with a dark and stormy night. . . . more
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November 17, 2007 02:27 PM EST --
This list is written only in the order of what happenes to come to mind…
The soft, cold cream smelling cheek of my mother when I kiss her goodnight. This perhaps more . . . more
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