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The Question Going Forward

Dawn, broke soft upon the ancient ruin there
upon the hillside, above the glen once so fair
Where gentle maids walked with heroic beaus
oh so far back it was, in Time’s unforgiving flow

Empty places and forgotten races, vanished with the age,
yet, we learned only how to relive the act on life’s stage

Wind song sings of them, in its whispered refrain
the ages moved on, and for mere mortals a bane
Forgotten by most, yet once they had their true life
feeling the joy of beginnings, and ending’s sad strife

Empty places and forgotten races, vanished with the age,
yet, we learned only how to relive the act on life’s stage

Happy and sad, bad and good, they were themselves true
all the things their human hearts could dream did they do
wonders seen, and beheld in a hand, but secrets won out
and so they passed on, in Time with hardly a shout

Empty places and forgotten races, vanished with the age,
yet, we learned only how to relive the act on life’s stage

Who will ponder my own mortal range across a life
and question my time, its moments of joy and strife
Like deep echoes, so faint does Time sing of them all
and I wonder just who, will answer its haunting sad call


2,238 posted on 12/31/2009 11:05:58 PM PST by WayzataJOHNN ( Poetry is the jazz of words, laid down by a feeling soul.)
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Happy New Year, Everyone.
Thank you for spending New Year's Eve with us.

I'm looking forward to seeing everyone in 2010

See you tomorrow.

2,239 posted on 12/31/2009 11:25:28 PM PST by JustAmy (Republicans think everyday is July 4th. Democrats think everyday is April 15th.)
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To: WayzataJOHNN
"Who will ponder my own mortal range across a life
and question my time, its moments of joy and strife
Like deep echoes, so faint does Time sing of them all
and I wonder just who, will answer its haunting sad call"

Who will answer?
All who's hearts have been touched
By the words you share with us every day
We all embrace you.


2,240 posted on 12/31/2009 11:35:18 PM PST by yorkie
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