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posted by
poetjpb
on April 7, 2004 at 7:00 PM
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Very thought inspiring...
and heartfelt.
posted by
Katray2
on April 7, 2004 at 6:56 PM
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lovely, lovely comment--thanks. Love that quote.
Yeah, I was raised on guilt. But I wrote this poem a long time ago, and I'm not as guilty now.
I figure they are old enough now to screw up their own life.. Plus I think I wrote that after some trial I had gone through with my marriage. We almost divorced............but we have made it now 27 years.
posted by
poetjpb
on April 7, 2004 at 6:46 PM
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poetjpb.
Oh, wowie, are you into the guilt? This kind of says that to me, or your worried, have regrets, I feel for you my friend, you have such a soul.
I found this, and I share it with you, for you. Not in competition with your wonderful gift of this and all your poems, just a balm for you, for your mind. 
"The sages and heroes of history are receding from us, and history contracts the record of their deeds into a norrower and narrower page. But time has no power over the name and deeds and words of Jesus Christ." (Channing)
Now no matter what happens with religion, any religion, somehow that name survives does it not? And the children will survive, and find their ways, and make new ways, and they will remember some of the past, and carry it, and some of it they will drop.
And some of yours will have the legacy of you in your poetry, and they will be happy.
posted by
WileyJohn
on April 6, 2004 at 8:21 PM
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