This Poem was Submitted By: lonnie hicks On Date: 2003-01-13 16:59:41 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Memory Stroked

I was a summer blossom given away; tear-scented wedding train, arm locked processional, musical strains, rose petal aisled marriage vows. My dad breathed-- not wanting to release  but willed himself. Love leaves that autumn-- mixing then separations and matrimonies, ironies and cleavings, all falling gently  from his tree; floating evolving-- winging paradoxes and meanings-- leaf rustlings signaling someone's winter and someone's spring. Dad cries. Daughter loves both autumn leaves and summer blossomings-- a gardenia scent in the heavy air fades quietly-- memory stroked; still trembling.

Copyright © January 2003 lonnie hicks


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