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. sweet, sad and so damn beautiful...

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  2. what a lucky woman she was

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

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

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

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  5. Stafford,

    How brilliantly poignant!

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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. Bride gift mirror. I really like that. Nice Magpie.

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

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

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

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

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

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  14. 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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