Monday, October 12, 2015

a plethora of links

I just copied and pasted what was in the inbox

http://st1998.blogspot.com/ 
http://yslrg.blogspot.com/ 
http://kateisgreat123.blogspot.com/

1st pd blogs

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Friday, October 2, 2015

Prevision By Aline Kilmer

Prevision
By Aline Kilmer

I know you are too dear to stay;
You are so exquisitely sweet:
My lonely house will thrill someday
To echoes of your eager feet.

I hold your words within my heart,
So few, so infinitely dear;
Watching your fluttering hands I start
At the corroding touch of fear.

A faint, unearthly music rings
From you to Heaven -- it is not far!
A mist about your beauty clings
Like a thin cloud before a star.

My heart shall keep the child I knew,
When you are really gone from me,
And spend its life remembering you

As shells remember the lost sea.

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Songs of an Empty House

from Songs of an Empty House
By Marguerite Wilkinson

My father got me strong and straight and slim,
 And I give thanks to him;
My mother bore me glad and sound and sweet, --
 I kiss her feet.

I have no son, whose life of flesh and fire
 Sprang from my splendid sire,
No daughter for whose soul my mother's flesh
 Wrought raiment1 fresh.

Life's venerable2 rhythms like a flood
 Beat in my brain and blood,
Crying from all the generations past,
 "Is this the last?"

And I make answer to my haughty3 dead,
 Who made me, heart and head,
"Even the sunbeams falter, flicker and bend --
 I am the end."

1. raiment: clothing or material
2. venerable: commanding respect because of age, character, or position.3. haughty: expressing an attitude of superiority.
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