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avevale_intelligencer ([personal profile] avevale_intelligencer) wrote2014-03-20 12:46 am

Poem

TO ONE LONG LOVED

For fifty years I've known that you were fair
And so you are. No longer young, it's true,
But beauty is not eyes or skin or hair
And youth was never all the fair of you.
Youth is not part of us; it comes and goes,
And leaves us changed, a shadow of our past.
Roses grow rank and foul; but then a rose
Has not a soul, and so it cannot last.
The soul is where the truest beauty dwells,
And that can never wither, never die.
In spite of all the wicked lies time tells
Its truth remains, refuting every lie.
And that which made you lovely then, I vow,
Is that which makes you still more lovely now.

[identity profile] filkerdave.livejournal.com 2014-03-20 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
Wow. This is really, really, really good.
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[personal profile] batyatoon 2014-03-20 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
This is really beautiful. Thank you for sharing it with us.
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[identity profile] thnidu.livejournal.com 2014-03-20 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
Oh yes. Thank you, Zander, and all best wishes to you and the Duchess.

[identity profile] little-cinnamon.livejournal.com 2014-03-20 07:22 am (UTC)(link)
This is beautiful.

[identity profile] murphys-lawyer.livejournal.com 2014-03-20 07:48 am (UTC)(link)
...

Thank you.

[identity profile] coth.livejournal.com 2014-03-20 09:16 am (UTC)(link)
Love this. Thank you.

[identity profile] feetnotes.livejournal.com 2014-03-20 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)

yes.

[identity profile] grey-lady.livejournal.com 2014-03-20 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Absolutely lovely!
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[personal profile] patoadam 2014-03-21 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
Wow. That's incredibly beautiful.
Edited 2014-03-21 04:02 (UTC)

[identity profile] dickgloucester.livejournal.com 2014-03-21 02:18 pm (UTC)(link)
This is beautiful.

[identity profile] lastalda.livejournal.com 2014-03-22 12:23 pm (UTC)(link)
So very beautiful! Thank you for sharing, and all the best to both of you! :-)
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[personal profile] aunty_marion 2014-03-23 01:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Awww. *sniffles* Hugs to you and Jan.