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    Poetry from my heart

    "I'm back home!"
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    Every day at dusk she calls,
    at morn, at noon, at night,
    Her daughter is her pride and joy
    Ripe fruit of labor, heart of life
    The phone now rings, she speaks,
    "How old is James? So tall now!
    Is Suzie eating well?
    How is Charles? How are you all?
    Are you happy? Pray tell!"
    The answer at the other end
    after three short rings
    swells from the mother's heart
    to ears, from thuds of love
    so deafening!
    "I'm back home, It's as though
    I never left, the kids and Charles
    are fine!..."
    Mother hears this, so content
    her pride blinds sight,
    She did not hear the end,
    She did not see...
    the urn.
    Last edited by Adolescent09; 05-26-2013 at 10:01 PM.
    My hide hides the heart inside

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    I like the way you set up the dialog from the mother's heart.

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    I like the sentiment but it loses structure
    Before sunlight can shine through a window, the blinds must be raised - American Proverb

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    I feel like I want more of the conversation than the explanation.
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    ...the smell of flowers through metal labyrinths.

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    Who is in the urn?
    Everyone finds himself in the world where he belongs. The essential thing is to have a fixed point from which to check its reality now and then.
    Ancient Egyptian Inner Temples

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    Really like the way you end it but no idea who's talking to who. Who's the "mother", is it the mother of the mother of the kids... You might want to rework it so it's less confusing.

    "But do you really, seriously, Major Scobie," Dr. Sykes asked, "believe in hell?"
    "Oh, yes, I do."
    "In flames and torment?"
    "Perhaps not quite that. They tell us it may be a permanent sense of loss."
    "That sort of hell wouldn't worry me," Fellowes said.
    "Perhaps you've never lost anything of importance," Scobie said.

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