Friday, 22 October 2010

Magpie 37

Love Bird’s Companion


















Your bride gift mirror, placed with care
On the covers, close to where
Your pillowed head
Was once in bed
And I imagine you’re still there.

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18 comments:

  1. Unknown22 October 2010 at 7:07 am

    sweet, sad and so damn beautiful...

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  2. Suz22 October 2010 at 7:39 am

    what a lucky woman she was

    just heartbreakingly beautiful
    and so romantic...deeply felt my friend

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  3. Queen of the Tea Cosies22 October 2010 at 7:51 am

    Ah Ford
    It is so beautifully poignant
    I can almost ignore the limerick in it

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  4. Susannah22 October 2010 at 8:40 am

    Poignant and beautiful.

    My Magpie

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  5. Pauline22 October 2010 at 9:25 am

    well now, that's just plain sad - beautifully composed but sad

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  6. ninotaziz22 October 2010 at 11:45 am

    Stafford,

    How brilliantly poignant!

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  7. Gabrielle Bryden22 October 2010 at 1:12 pm

    Awesome :)

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  8. Kelstahz22 October 2010 at 1:52 pm

    How odd that every one I have read so far (including myself) have been inspired by a mirror to write something sad.

    I wonder what that means?

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  9. Anonymous22 October 2010 at 3:32 pm

    There is something of the Victorian poets about this. I really like it. I think it's the image of the pillowed head. Excellent.

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  10. Sue J23 October 2010 at 12:21 am

    Bride gift mirror. I really like that. Nice Magpie.

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  11. Kathe W.23 October 2010 at 3:10 am

    oh my- the image of the pillowed head...and she's gone. Beautiful and so very sad.

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  12. kathi harris23 October 2010 at 3:32 am

    Sad memories.

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  13. Anonymous23 October 2010 at 8:13 am

    I love the ending!
    Mine was a bride gift mirror as well!

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  14. Brian Miller23 October 2010 at 10:56 am

    ouch...sad sad stafford...but now when you look for the one you love you see yourself?

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  15. signed...bkm24 October 2010 at 5:54 am

    Great answer to this prompt Stafford, sad and beautiful - memories reside in the simplest of objects....bkm

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  16. Carrie Van Horn25 October 2010 at 11:46 pm

    This is beautiful Stafford! :-)

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  17. Linda Bob Grifins Korbetis Hall26 October 2010 at 1:18 am

    yeah, he/she will be here ...
    uplifting and witty words.

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  18. Glenn Buttkus26 October 2010 at 4:32 am

    Haunting, poignant, touching,
    beautiful, well put, and look
    here world, Stafford can reach
    into his pot of poetics and bestow
    a group of lines without the humor
    usually demonstrated. Humor is
    essential in this wicked circumstance
    we call our lives, but so is heartfelt
    remembrances. Very nicely done.

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