Leslie John Clarke

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Love everlasting is etched in the sands of time.

~ Sandra S. Corona

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being to timelessness as it's to time ღ♥ღ

being to timelessness as it's to time,
love did no more begin than love will end:
where nothing is to breathe to stroll to swim
love is the air the ocean and the land
❦
love is the voice under all silences,
the hope which has no opposite in fear:
the strength so strong mere force is feebleness:
the truth more first than sun, more last than star.

~ ee cummings

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Mel Xxxxx (Friend)

Saturday evening

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*✫* Christmas Secrets *✫*

Underneath a winter sky
a distant train sings out the miles.
So I imagine, it may be,
that every mile brings you to me.
A promise made may still come true,
so I am waiting here for you,
if you don’t come, what will I do?
Who shall I tell my secrets to?
*☾*
Christmas bells ring out their chimes,
I hear them echo through the miles,
and moonlight shines upon the road
and trembles on the fallen snow
I look into the midnight blue
So many stars I never knew.
If you don’t come, what will I do?
Who shall I tell my secrets to?
*☾*
I look into the midnight blue
So many stars I never knew.
If you don’t come, what will I do?
Who shall I tell my secrets to?

~ Sung by Enya, lyrics by Roma Ryan ~
Copyright Ⓒ2006 EMI

Mel Xxxxx (Friend)

December 29, 2011

░☆░☆░ MERRY CHRISTMAS ░☆░☆░

As we prepare for Christmas,
Our thoughts will be of you,
You always made our Christmases,
The happiest we ever knew.
We'll try our best to celebrate
The birth of Christ our King,
But in our hearts we realise
We've lost our everything.


Merry★* 。 • ˚ ˚ ˛ ˚ ˛ •
•。★Christmas★ 。* 。
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Carol Spud (Best Friend)

December 23, 2011

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✻ A Winter's Epiphany ✻

Timeless thoughts of a winter’s stare;
eyes gazing over a landscape bare.
Memories drift on a blustery breeze;
dying light ushers in the freeze.

Reaching out for a grasp on the present;
stillness sets in, alone, and desolate.
Future unknown, outcome uncertain;
brilliance shadowed by a drawn curtain.

Path now set, laid before me known;
closing light now emanating from home.
Enter my homestead, heart filled with glee;
two eyes of the future peering upward at me.

Trusting in him to forge forward until fulfilled;
basis of strength, values I have instilled.
A wary mind at last permitted to rest;
reflecting on the realization of how I am blessed.

Ⓒ Michael A. Barron

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✻ Fairy Song ✻

Shed no tear! O, shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Weep no more! O, weep no more!
Young buds sleep in the root’s white core.
Dry your eyes! O, dry your eyes!
For I was taught in Paradise
To ease my breast of melodies,—
Shed no tear.

Overhead! look overhead!
‘Mong the blossoms white and red—
Look up, look up! I flutter now
On this fresh pomegranate bough.

See me! ’tis this silvery bill
Ever cures the good man’s ill.
Shed no tear! O, shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Adieu, adieu—I fly—adieu!
I vanish in the heaven’s blue,—
Adieu, adieu!

~ John Keats

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Mel Xxxxx (Friend)

December 6, 2011

ჱܓჱܓჱܓჱܓჱܓჱܓჱܓჱܓჱܓჱܓჱܓჱܓ

ღ LIFE is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.
…~ Charles Feidelson, Jr.

ღ LOVE is the vital core of the soul, and of all you see, only love is infinite.
…~ Rumi

♥ ═ೋღ♥ ═ೋღ♥

ღ A Farewell ღ

FAREWELL, oh dream of mine!
I dare not stay;
The hour is come, and time
Will not delay:
Pleasant and dear to me
Wilt thou remain;
No future hour
Brings thee again.
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She stands, the Future dim,
And draws me on,
And shows me dearer joys—
But thou art gone!
Treasures and Hopes more fair,
Bears she for me,
And yet I linger,
Oh dream, with thee!
❦
Other and brighter days,
Perhaps she brings;
Deeper and holier songs,
Perchance she sings;
But thou and I, fair time,
We too must sever—
Oh dream of mine,
Farewell for ever!

~ Adelaide Anne Procter

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Mel Xxxxx (Friend)

November 26, 2011

God bless. xxx

~ For The Anniversary Of My Death ~

Every year without knowing it I have passed the day
When the last fires will wave to me
And the silence will set out
Tireless traveller
Like the beam of a lightless star

Then I will no longer
Find myself in life as in a strange garment
Surprised at the earth
And the love of one woman
And the shamelessness of men
As today writing after three days of rain
Hearing the wren sing and the falling cease
And bowing not knowing to what.

~ W.S. Merwin

Mel Xxxxx (Friend)

November 12, 2011

For Leslie. xxx

♥ REMEMBERING YOU ON YOUR ANGEL DAY ♥

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♥ I Miss You ♥

Another year without you
Tears flow – within this broken heart of mine
I am never complete
A shadow of my former self
You went to the Garden of Paradise this day, that year
I should be happy for you, but I wish you were here so much
And all I can do is cry.

♥ Written by Melanie Doe 10/09/10 ♥

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Mel Xxxxx (Friend)

November 12, 2011

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†[♥]† The Isolation of Grief †[♥]†

I am on a little boat
In a hurricane.
The waves crash all around me
And the wind tears at my sails.
The black sea rushes into my boat
And I am sinking.
Sinking.
Far off, in the distance,
I see the shore.
People are laughing,
Having conversations,
Parties.
Horns are honking.
Hustle Bustle,
Business as usual.
I see the faces.
I hear the voices.
But they are far away,
In a normal world.
They can see me,
But they do not see the hurricane.
There is no rescue boat
To bring me in.
They talk to me,
But their words are lost
In the wind.
I'm growing colder.
Can't seem to find my breath.
I'm looking for a lifeline.
Some connection to the normal world.
Doesn't anyone out there
See this storm?

†[♥]† Ⓒ Gwen Flowers †[♥]†

Mel Xxxxx (Friend)

October 20, 2011

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†[♥]† The Isolation of Grief †[♥]†

I am on a little boat
In a hurricane.
The waves crash all around me
And the wind tears at my sails.
The black sea rushes into my boat
And I am sinking.
Sinking.
Far off, in the distance,
I see the shore.
People are laughing,
Having conversations,
Parties.
Horns are honking.
Hustle Bustle,
Business as usual.
I see the faces.
I hear the voices.
But they are far away,
In a normal world.
They can see me,
But they do not see the hurricane.
There is no rescue boat
To bring me in.
They talk to me,
But their words are lost
In the wind.
I'm growing colder.
Can't seem to find my breath.
I'm looking for a lifeline.
Some connection to the normal world.
Doesn't anyone out there
See this storm?

†[♥]† Ⓒ Gwen Flowers †[♥]†

Mel Xxxxx (Friend)

October 20, 2011

Happy Birthday. xxx

Birthdays Do Not End With Death

Birthdays do not end with death,
But last as long as love,
A maelstrom of memories
That grace and honor move.

And so we celebrate your day
By visiting your grave,
A place that you have left long since,
But is all that we have.

Dear spirit, come and join us here,
Your loved ones by your stone!
Come sweep across the barrier
To claim us as your own!

Happy birthday, dearest one!
Oh, happy, happy day!
Not even the most bitter night
Can take this joy away!

Copyright Nicholas Gordon

Mel Xxxxx (Friend)

October 16, 2011