tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50279622584987195762024-03-20T09:39:19.517+10:30The Pages of AvalonA place to share the writings from a sensitive and caring heart..Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger323125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5027962258498719576.post-34645260460448015722017-06-11T14:43:00.000+09:302017-06-11T14:43:32.073+09:30<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD</span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let's love the children of the world</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And hold them in our arms</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let's cherish them and let them feel</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are captured by their charms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A peaceful world for them I hope,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And days when swinging is fun,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A comfortable bed and safe place</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For them when day is done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Parents love and Family care</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A home that's filled with love,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A cherished safe and special place</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Blessed by Heaven above.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Calm voices and sweet music</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A special tender touch,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let's let them feel that they are loved</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh so very much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Children have no voice </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And cannot ask to be born,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let us examine our hearts</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As we face another dawn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let's be a nurse when they are sick,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A teacher when they're learning,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let's provide them with shelter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the things that they are yearning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let's teach them very special things</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The things to say and do,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To blow kisses to each other</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To say that "I love you."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let's read them bedtime stories</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the wonder of the skies,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And hope that we can see the magic</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In their smiles and in their eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let's make them fairy cakes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And hold their little hands,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This should be happening</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In homes in all the lands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let's protect them as they travel</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And hold their hands really tight</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let's sing away the things that scare them</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the darkness of the night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They are such a special gift</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Given to us in trust,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We must give them of our best</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes - indeed we must.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let them splash in puddles</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And feel the wind in their hair</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let them squash the sand between their toes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Please tell them that you care.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Those little fingers and tiny feet,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The sunshine of their smile,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Remember they are children</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For such a little while.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hold them very close </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Provide a pure sweet place,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Remember that we are blessed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By their presence and their grace,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let's love the children of the world</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And hold them in our arms</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let's cherish them and let them feel</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are captured by their charms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">© Linda J. Vaughan</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">September 2007</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Let them laugh, let them giggle, let them sleep in the middle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just let them be little."</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Australia30.08430621630745 -96.0468792915344244.56227171630745 -137.35547329153442 55.60634071630745 -54.738285291534424tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5027962258498719576.post-59705860527406119372015-05-09T17:11:00.000+09:302015-05-09T17:11:39.168+09:30MISSING MOTHER ON MOTHER'S DAY <br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Written
for those of you for whom Mother's Day is different <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">since the
passing of your own dear Mother. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">MISSING <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">MOTHER</st1:city> <st1:state w:st="on">ON</st1:state></st1:place>
MOTHER’S DAY<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The weeks
and months move on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And yet
it seems like yesterday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since
your heart was broken<u> <o:p></o:p></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And she
went away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She was a
lady who cared<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And loved
you very much ~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know
you miss her presence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And her
tender gentle touch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are
so many things to remember<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of family
times together<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Christmas
and Easter, sunshine and rain ~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So many
storms to weather.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She was
strong and loving<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And this
she passed to you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You will
never forget her<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In all
you say and do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It
somehow gets a little easier<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To cope
with the empty space,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But your
heart knows very well<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That none
could take her place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She was
your cherished Mother<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was
she who gave you birth,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nourished
you and nurtured you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And
helped you know your worth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So
although you miss her very much<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Especially
on Mother’s Day<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And on
the anniversary<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of the
day she went away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her
physical presence is no more<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But she
has left her part<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She never
will be gone from you ~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She lives
within your heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She lives
within the memories<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of the
times you spent together,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And with
her strength beside you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Any storm
you’ll weather.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Think of
her with tenderness,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With love
you cannot hide,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And know
that she would always<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Think of
you with pride.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">© Linda
J. Vaughan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">May 4th.
2005</span><span style="color: #a71089; font-family: Monotype Corsiva; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The joy of the sunrise and dawn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When winter wind is chill,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the mistakes that they have made.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the setting of the sun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When hearts are a quiver.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This person will need to be special,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And show care like no other,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And when I have found her <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I shall call her name “Mother”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We remember little things,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A word, a smile ~ some good advice</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And sweet is the memory it brings.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And music fills our heart,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And in thought we go back to the start.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And we hold it in our hands</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And travel back once more.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A bunch of keys and a wedding ring</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of days when I was small</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That was quoted oft and long.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I almost come unravelled </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When these memories I meet.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A love that’s so rare to find.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think of you often and in memory stray</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And pleasure this pondering brings.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Phrases you said that I understood</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And gently opens the door.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is where I spend my time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And while away the hours.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With a heart that’s filled with care,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You will know that I am there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As they learn and grow,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bring more joy than you will know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As we face another morn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am the Mists of Avalon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of days when Knights lived here –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I remember Arthur and Guinevere<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the handsome man who stood tall,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He gave me love and laughter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And taught me so many things,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The love of the ocean and poetry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the joy that reading brings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We rode our bikes together<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Along the lines of the shore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He taught me the love of words ~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He taught me so much more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A sense of love and justice,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pride in work well done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He taught me to discuss and debate ~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To watch the setting sun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He taught me to value good food,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cooking with him was a lesson too<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is so much of him in my life<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In everything I do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He took me shopping and gave me gifts ~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Showed me life in its fullest measure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His journey is over and I am left<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With memories to treasure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I feel his presence in my life<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the simple everyday things<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A piece of music, a newspaper folded<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the joy his memory brings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">© Linda J. Vaughan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>THE PASSING OF THE
YEARS</u></span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’ve done some
thinking lately</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And it somehow
frightens me,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just how the years
are passing</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the changes that
I see.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My body tells me I am
older</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But in my mind I am
still a girl</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Taking on the world’s
great problems</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With a flourish and a
swirl.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I still have a sense
of justice</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I had once before,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s my body that is
aging</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In my mind I’m twenty
four.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Marching in a protest</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Standing for what I
believe.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I did that again at
fifty five</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No changes I
perceive.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Forty years have passed</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since I first gave
birth</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To see my “baby”
fully grown</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The greatest joy on
earth.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have passed the
baton on</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To another daughter
bold</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whose heart so wide
and open</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The whole world it
could hold.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Brown spots upon my
hands</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh gosh - Oh deary
me.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That only happens to
older folk ~</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But it is happening
to me!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I still feel the same
about things,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And still love and
think and feel</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All the things I
always felt –</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But there are wounds
which will not heal.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I still feel the barb
of great injustice</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To the people of the
world.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I still weep great
tears of sorrow</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As another grenade is
hurled.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once I would have
stood outside Offices</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And told them the
thoughts in my head,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But arthritis in my
feet now pains me</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I’ll email them
instead.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s not a glamorous
business</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This growing older
day by day,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I try to do it
with dignity</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And watch the things
I say.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes I am growing
older</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I don’t like it
very much. ~</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It takes me about
twice as long</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To do only half as
much.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I still weep at
nature’s beauty</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And friendships kindly
ways,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The dewdrop on a
summer rose</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Crisp and misty
autumn days.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Birthdays at forty, fifty, sixty</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All came and went
away.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I really am quite
grateful</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For each and every
day.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So as I look in the
mirror</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And see the lines
upon my face,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I try to recall the
things I’ve done</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the memories I
retrace.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am glad I have
these wrinkles</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They are a map of the
years,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They tell the story
of my life</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of the laughter and
the tears.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So growing old is a
blessing</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And thankful I will
be</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For all the friends
who have supported</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And travelled this
road with me</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p> </span></div>
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LOVE</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
sat in my car at the parking lot<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At
the start of a busy day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
looked up and saw a couple<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Slowly
walking my way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They
crossed the road together,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He
gently took her arm ~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Easy
to see she was special to him<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That
he would keep her from harm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She
was going shopping ~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This
is where they had to part.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They
smiled at each other<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
could almost feel her fluttery heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She
quietly turned and faced him<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He
gently tilted her chin,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They
hugged each other closely<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not
wanting to let the world in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He
stroked her silver hair<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And
steadied her on her feet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He
handed her the <span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">walking stick</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before
he crossed the street.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He
kissed her and she blushed,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He
squeezed her hand and left her there<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With
the memory of his tender kiss<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And
his loving care.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It
touched my romantic heart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And
somehow made me ponder,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just
how long these two <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have
shared love’s special wonder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In
his eyes were diamonds,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He kissed her where the world could see,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He
stood and watched her walk away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And
he gently smiled at me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
smiled and sensed the wonder<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of
a love which has lasted the years<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It
was such a special morning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And
my eyes were wet with tears.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In all the little things,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And you will be surprised<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the measure of joy it brings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">See the glass half full,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The blossoms in the spring,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The diamond dewdrop on the rose,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The bird upon the wing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Play with a child and learn again<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That life is full of fun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Splash in the puddles ~ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Feel the warmth of the sun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Smile at a stranger and you will find<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your smile will cheer his day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Listen to music and sing along<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As you go along your way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our positive thoughts affect our day,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our lives and those we meet,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dance in the moonlight <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With wings upon your feet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stretch your wings and dare to be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A positive caring soul,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the joy you spread as you go along<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Will help you to be whole.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">© Linda J. Vaughan</span><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was thinking of days gone by<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When little boys climbed trees,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tore their pants, filled their pockets,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And often skinned their knees.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How they were the Kings in a Castle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With dragons to chase and slay,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And how they’d fish in ponds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And collect frogs every day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A rope swing over the river<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When days were long and warm,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Coming home for dinner,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To a place that was safe and warm,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Little girls in dress up clothes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With flowers in their hair,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Discussing their dolls and problems,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And rocking their “babies” with care.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fairy <st1:place w:st="on">Queens</st1:place>
and Princesses<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With fairy wings and wands,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Looking at their reflections<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In cool still garden ponds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Making perfume from rose petals,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And baking lots of mud pies,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Coming home at end of day<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With the light of sleep in their eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The world has changed for everyone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And parents find it hard<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To let their children play outside<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the safety of their back yard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Love the children of the world<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Encourage them to grow,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To live and learn in safety<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To be the best we know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Store away the memories<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of childhood trust and love,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Keep them close in heart and thought<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And bless them with your love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>A
PEACEFUL ROOM <o:p></o:p></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In every
heart there is a room<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where
shelter can be found,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A place
of love and memory<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where joy
and tears abound.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A place
of shelter from the storm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where
love’s young dream lives on ~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A place
to visit often<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where
families are one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Laughter
rings from this room<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And
comfort bears the soul<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On angel
wings and carries it back<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To where
it can be whole.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No aging
here in memory,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And days
all long and fair<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A special
place to visit<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Away from
toil and care.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Love is
fresh and new<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And very
starry eyed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A
remembered glance and touch<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A smile
of tenderness and pride.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Conversation
soft and low<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sweet,
sweet wine and flowers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Visiting
this heart room<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Brings
again the joy of hours.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The tears
that have been shed here<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And some
brought sweet release,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The agony
of waiting and watching<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For
morning to bring some peace..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
memory of cooling <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A
precious child’s fevered brow,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
hoping and the praying<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That it
would be alright somehow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In this
room of your heart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stand
shelves of memories treasure<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
bitter/sweet and painful ones,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The ones
which bring such pleasure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Visit
your heart’s room often<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Restore
and find some calm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is a
special place indeed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And will
shelter you from harm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have watched the roses
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And smelled the fragrance
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have enjoyed days and
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With wings upon my feet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Days of sunshine and
brightness,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With music in the air.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A string of pearls around
my neck ~ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I hardly knew a care.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’ve seen the seasons come
and go<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the roses fade away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The pearls still remained <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And oft brought joy to my
day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Winter time with roses
bare<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Waiting for spring to
arrive<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tiny buds upon the bush<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hope was still alive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Warmer days with brighter
skies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The petals showed their bloom,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Still the pearls held
their glow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And chased away my gloom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sunshine and shadow,
laughter and tears<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Are the memories stirred
for me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Petals and pearls and
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Who gave these things to
me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">© Linda J. Vaughan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">October 6<sup>th</sup>.
2005<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A whirring fan beside me</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A gentle breeze that blows</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another day of summer </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A fear that grows and grows.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A wisp of smoke on the horizon</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The hope it doesn't spread,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While we sleep in our bed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A hot night and north winds gusting </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fear within them growing</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Flames are leaping highter</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Embers ever glowing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Houses locked up tight</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And families quickly leavng</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some will return to safe homes</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sheds and fences burning</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Please God keep them safe -</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh the pain of an Australian summer</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As it comes around again.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Offers of help come pouring in</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sandwiches and comfort</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For those so very weary.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hopeful hearts are praying</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For relief from fire and heat,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Weary bodies, tired spirits</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you have no business here</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I demand you stay away</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Leave those to do a difficult job</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On another stressful day.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Courage and strength to those who fight</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And risk their lives out here</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stay safe and strong</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are holding you very near. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">January 5th. 2015</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A string of pearls,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A suit of blue.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A red red rose ~</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sweet memories of you.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A “baby” doll,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A red tricycle ~</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sweet memories of you.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A tiny camp stove,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A cricket test match too,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shopping at a market ~</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sweet memories of you.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reading some poetry,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Listening to music you knew,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Discussing and debating ~</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sweet memories of you.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A blushing bride,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Are you sure of what you do?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sunshine and laughter ~</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sweet memories of you.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A broken windscreen,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In a car that’s very new.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sharing pain and sorrow ~</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sweet memories of you.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A lady you adored,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Who also loved you too.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reconciliation</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sweet memories of you.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An empty space,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A silence new.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I miss you very much</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I have sweet memories of you.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">March 24th. 2004</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Adelaide SA, Australia-34.928621199999988 138.5999594-36.593689699999985 136.0181724 -33.263552699999991 141.18174639999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5027962258498719576.post-79366979873832161772014-11-25T09:31:00.000+10:302014-11-25T09:31:45.281+10:30HEALING TEARS <div style="text-align: center;">
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TEARS<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bitter the
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Although our
hearts are broken,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our senses
are numb and we regret<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The words we
left unspoken.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Painful the
tears that sting and burn<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As we choke
to hold them back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Difficult
the days as we struggle on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And we seek
the courage we lack.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sweet are
the tears that wash our eyes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And bring an
easing of the pain,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They give to
us a strength<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like
sunshine after rain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sweet are
the tears that freely flow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bringing
much needed relief,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They are
part of the learning, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The coping
and acceptance of grief.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Healing the
tears that finally come<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When we
think we can take no more,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They allow
us to take tentative steps <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And walk to
the future’s door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">June 2005<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And dresses up so smart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The essence of her being <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And waves her banner high<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The bracelets and the bows<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And acknowledges the land<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Belongs to it’s Native People,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To whom she offers a helping hand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Who shudders at the thought of war,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Adelaide SA, Australia-34.928621199999988 138.5999594-34.928621199999988 138.5999594 -34.928621199999988 138.5999594tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5027962258498719576.post-33159816186793416822014-07-08T15:54:00.000+09:302014-07-08T15:54:26.986+09:30CLOSED FOR THE WINTER<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All this and so much more.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just a bleak and forlorn picture</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With winter nearly done.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Which will fade in the summer heat haze.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The vintage has come
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The prettiest sight you
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For winter is leaving
your land and heart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I know that brings
you pleasure<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wish you a springtime
of golden joys<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With happy memories to
treasure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wish you a summer of
contented days<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With blue skies and
meals in the sun <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wish you happiness
always<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Until your race is run.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>THIS MORNING</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I picked the last rose
of summer this morning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From a garden parched
and dry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I saw a rainbow this
morning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And heard the seabirds
cry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The wind was cold this
morning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Over a pewter coloured
sea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I sat by the water’s
edge this morning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And some peace it
brought to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The sky was filled with
gulls<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the chilly wind
whipped the sand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Seaweed, shells and
starfish<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Loved ones holding
hands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Early morning
adventurers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jogging at the start of
the day<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A cheery hello between
friends<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And then they were on
their way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I observed Nature’s
canvas this morning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the things she was
painting for me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I quietly contemplated
this morning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I sat by the steel
grey sea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There was beauty there
this morning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And it brought me some
release<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My heart somewhat
lighter this morning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I accepted the gift
of peace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">© Linda J. Vaughan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">23<sup>rd</sup>. April
2004</span><span style="font-family: Monotype Corsiva; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">YOUR OWN JOURNEY<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They say
life is a journey<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One we
all must make ~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s not
the destination<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bur the
steps that we take.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We travel
the road of life<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the
company of those we love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are
never truly alone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are
guided from above.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For some
the road is rough and steep<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With many
a thorny briar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For some
it is never easy <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the
path causes us to tire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You have
a special path to take<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One that
you alone must walk<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All we
can do is comfort you ~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Listen
and be ready to talk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is
pain and sickness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And your
dignity is somehow lost.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We stand
on the shore and watch<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As your
little boat is tossed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We watch
as you make your journey<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Through
days that are dark and drear,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are
here and we are waiting<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To take
away your fear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are
ready to talk with you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And to
somehow ease your pain,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is
difficult to watch you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And our
tears fall like rain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So as you
travel forward<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On days
that must seem long.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We watch
and we admire you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And we
know we must be strong.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We must
help you through this journey<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And meet
you at the end,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For
somehow the sun is shining <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just
around the bend.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are
things that you should know<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">About our
care and love<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And how
we wish for Angels <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To watch
you from above.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Take your
journey and try to be strong<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have
courage in all that you do <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You are loved
and very special<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And we
travel this journey with you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">© Linda J.
Vaughan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">December
10<sup>th</sup>. 2004</span><span style="color: #ff99cc; font-family: Monotype Corsiva; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Written with love for a cherished friend taking the journey with breast cancer.</span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Adelaide SA, Australia-34.928621199999988 138.5999594-36.593689699999985 136.0181724 -33.263552699999991 141.18174639999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5027962258498719576.post-45751233084905995432014-03-17T18:52:00.000+10:302014-03-17T18:53:22.440+10:30IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<u><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">IT’S
THE LITTLE THINGS.<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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often on our journey <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">We
remember little things,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">A
word, a smile ~ some good advice<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">And
sweet is the memory it brings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sometimes
we find a special joy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">And
music fills our heart,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">When
we remember a melody<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">And
in thought we go back to the start.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">It’s
the little things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">When
we find a tiny treasure<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Tucked
away in an old dresser drawer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">And
we hold it in our hands<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">And
travel back once more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">A
bunch of keys and a wedding ring<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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photograph in a folder<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Of
days when I was small<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">It’s
the little things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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line from a piece of poetry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">That
was quoted oft and long.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">A
calculator and maths book ~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">A
special much loved song.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The
smell of cooking bacon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">And
coffee strong and sweet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">I
almost come unravelled <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">When
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">It’s
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question from a little child,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Crusts
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The
stirring of a teacup<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> And never being late!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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newspaper page all neatly folded<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">With
a crossword puzzle done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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toothpick and pen in a pocket<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Staying
up until the game is won.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">It’s
the little things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Oh
yes! It’s the little things<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">That
brings you so often to mind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The
things that you valued ~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">A
love that’s so rare to find.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">I
think of you often and in memory stray<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">And
pleasure this pondering brings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Phrases
you said that I understood<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Yes –
it’s the little things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">7<sup>th</sup>.
April 2004<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>LOOKING BACK </u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Looking back in memory <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I see the changing years,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I look into your eyes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I can sense your fears.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I see you as a young girl,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With diamonds in your eyes,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The path which lay before you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Holding open, clear blue skies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I see you as a bride <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With roses in your cheeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy hours with love for you,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Drifting into weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Weeks turning into years,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With children at your knee.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Raising happy children ~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You were as happy as could be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hear your rippling laughter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And see the tears you shed,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You were only happy when<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They were tucked into their bed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Soon you stopped and looked<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And saw the years had flown,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They were now returning <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With children of their own.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You tire more easily its true<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And seem to need more rest<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I see how you feel at the silence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of this empty nest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You were left to walk alone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yet love still shone from you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You encouraged us all <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To do things we needed to.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your body now is aging,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But not your heart and mind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Always you have been a Mother<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gentle, sweet and kind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I see you now your eyes still bright<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your heart still full of love,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For all you are and gave to me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I thank the Heavens above.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Only the body withers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not the heart or care.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You had so much to give<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And always you would share.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I see you as a Mother<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With dignity and grace,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With love’s pure light shining<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From your lovely face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">©
Linda J. Vaughan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">October 1<sup>st</sup>. 2006<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u><span style="font-size: 11pt;">THE CHILD
WITHIN</span></u><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">May you
always keep the child within<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And retain
your sense of wonder,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As you stand
beside the mighty ocean<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When you hear
the rolling thunder.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope your
heart always rejoices<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To smell the
grass newly mown,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The tiny
germinated plant<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From the
seeds that you have sown.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">May it always
touch your soul<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To feel
another’s care,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To share a
distant memory<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And know that
they were there.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope you
enjoy the seasons<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As they
change from year to year.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rain filled
stormy nights<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And morning
crisp and clear.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The daffodils
in springtime,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The rose’s
sweet perfume<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Church bells
ringing ~<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A smiling </span><a href="http://www.serverlogic3.com/lm/rtl3.asp?si=22&k=bride%20and%20groom" title="http://www.serverlogic3.com/lm/rtl3.asp?si=22&k=bride and groom"><span style="font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;">bride and groom</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">May you
always walk in sunshine<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And lend a
helping hand<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To those
whose life has changed<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From the way
they had it planned.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">May you
always keep the child within<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And laugh and
play and sing,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">May you
always have the strength<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For whatever
life may bring.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wish you
love and happiness<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And courage
to take a chance<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And when the
music plays for you<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope that
you can dance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">© Linda
J. Vaughan<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">January 23<sup>rd</sup>.
2005</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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