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Michael Mallot Bickford's avatar

Sweet encounter, sweetly recalled. Thank you. I hope you cultivate your smile wrinkles until you’re ninety-three. Heck, a hundred-three!

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G. K. Allum's avatar

The way the world is now I am just hoping to get to fifty-three! I appreciate you and your kind note.

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DarkLit's avatar

beautiful poem about a very sweet encounter

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Michelle Hogle Acciavatti's avatar

Oh this is really lovely. Thank you for sharing this moment. I can really feel the tenderness

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Kristi Joy Rimbach's avatar

"My own faint wrinkles,

newborn in comparison,

grew envious of their perfection."

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The Weight of Light's avatar

Love that part.

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Lani V. Cox's avatar

My favorite part, "Her nails were perfectly manicured,

her wrinkled brow,

a masterpiece of time.

My own faint wrinkles,

newborn in comparison,

grew envious of their perfection."

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The Weight of Light's avatar

My favorite part too. Aging does not mean we have to grow old in our mind and can do lots of things for our appearance and strength. 🙂

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Rachel Schiller's avatar

Yeah "newborn in comparison" is it.

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Themes and Deviations's avatar

Unfortunately many of us live with that scene in real time every single day with aged parents. That said, you really nailed it.

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G. K. Allum's avatar

Thank you.

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quiet reminders's avatar

God...so tender...

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