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100 years
I lay here on my bed looking at your face.
I know it so well,
your roman nose, your fleshy mouth, your dark hair...
and though I don't know your name
there are so many things about you that I can tell
by the way you sit there looking straight at me
with those gypsy eyes full of fire and dare,
those eyes that don't play fair
for they hide behind the shadows of their lashes
as if they knew they were the windows to your soul.
I see it all in that face I know so well,
that face that in my dreams I had seen
even before I'd seen you there...so still,
silently, intensely, constantly staring at me.
But I know nothing much about what you felt or what you did
back then when you laughed and loved and lived.
I don't know which color your eyes would turn to on a rainy afternoon,
if your heart burned with passion watching the moon,
or if you loved one, or many, or none at all,
I do know that like a forgotten glove left on an attic's window sill,
or like the scent of what was that surrounds us when we use an old fan,
there is an aura of yesterday about you,
and a sadness full of wonder in your eyes,
for though you are prisoner of a moment captured long ago
your eyes, opened since then,
have I am sure marveled at the world's change,
at life becoming so different than what you knew it to be
and yet staying in so many ways the same
as when your photo, this photo,
was taken and framed
by who I am sure was a loving friend
for in the back she wrote "I love you"and in a very sweet and skillful letteringthe date: "January 26, 1913" |
posted by
Sinome
on January 27, 2013 at 10:54 AM
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This poem makes me feel so good inside.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on January 27, 2013 at 9:38 AM
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Nice! I did the same as Naut, and took the doggies out for a stroll under that beautiful moon last night.
posted by
adnohr
on January 27, 2013 at 6:00 AM
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very vibrant
posted by
WednesdayAddams
on January 27, 2013 at 12:42 AM
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Lovely example of a moonlit night 
posted by
C_C_T
on January 27, 2013 at 12:06 AM
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We all have a little of the moon deep within us.
posted by
UtahJay
on January 26, 2013 at 10:48 PM
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Sinome
HIt felt so nice to see the moon after it snowed last night love. BC-A, Bill’s R®st
posted by
BC-A
on January 26, 2013 at 9:05 PM
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How many heart broken faces has that big Moon seen...It was a beautiful
yellow disk here last night, just enough misty cloud covering to make it mystic, enticed me to go outside and dance in the Snow. I resisted!!
posted by
Kabu
on January 26, 2013 at 6:47 PM
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Sinome
Beautiful! I just walked my doggie under that bright moon and those brilliant stars in a clear, cloudless sky, and it was magical...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 26, 2013 at 6:12 PM
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