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Wedding Anniversary 2020
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Letters to Petula Dawn
in a field of sunflowers
The sun, your face
My face and the warm earth
Brings green shoots
on Elysian hills
We're playing catch and release
With a dream. The air is still -
And you
You,
Balance the morning
Between the sun and me.
- For Petula
This poem is exquisitely
This poem is exquisitely beautiful, and the final two lines should be in every quotation book! Wow! In such few lines, you have presented a profoundly intense experience, and that is always a sign of classic talent.
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Thank you for the awesome
Thank you for the awesome comment! The final 2 lines came to me as our 8 year old son and I were competing for my wife's attention one evening...
Thank you for the reply. The
Thank you for the reply. The provenance of great lines has always fascinated me. One of my favorite concluding great lines, written by my favorite poet, Wallace Stevens, says: "Good-bye, Mrs. Papadopolus, and thanks!" I love that line. And I really love the last two lines of your poem. Thanks for telling me of their provenance, but, moreso, thanks for posting this magnificent poem.
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