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cassie58 asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 6 years ago

What do you think of the message contained in these lines?

Far deeper set than those in sand

which mark a path across a bay,

our dearest will not wash away.

As imprints left in dampened grains

soon fade when fickle tide returns

or when the wind sweeps them away.

On borrowed time, they can not last.

Compare them to the winter snow

which melts when warmth demands it so.

Yet footprints cast within our hearts,

cemented smooth with love and pain,

they are the ones that will remain.

You'll see them in another's smile

or in the tears they gently weep.

Who says we go without a trace,

we stay for those whose love runs deep.

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  • 6 years ago
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    I read it as gracious

    and I am grateful.

    I have a friend who is one of some whom I miss a lot over years

    and a few days ago, I read of the person`s death.

    The surprise is that to me their wisdom, their kindness and wit

    still is with their memory, safely here inside my heart..

    and

    here you wrote this totally on time.

    It is humbly and beautifully thought and felt through..

    is both sensitive and gentle

    with outstandingly memorable metaphors...

    and .... Thanks, I am pleased at its being so real to me.

    Lapiz.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    I like the poem, but I would query the adjective 'fickle' for the tide. If there is one thing that is rock-solid reliable it is the movement of the tides.

  • 6 years ago

    Just lovely Cassie...your poems always have a heartbeat of their own! They almost read themselves to me...! And your message...so true. xxx

  • 6 years ago

    edit: typo - should be : or when the wind sweeps them astray

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    Lv 5
    6 years ago

    Bravo! I love this ~

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