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Date Posted: 23:59:49 08/09/02 Fri
Author: Raphaela
Author Host/IP: webcacheB12a.cache.pol.co.uk / 195.92.168.174
Subject: Re: One Red Tulip
In reply to: Silvana Krculic 's message, "One Red Tulip" on 15:14:56 08/09/02 Fri

I like this Silvana - you convey so much between the lines which makes the poem multi-layered and invites the reader to dive deep into the depths.

Very poignant.

Raphaela

>One red Tulip-
>I handed him through the distance.
>
>I did it for the memories of our school days
>that were somewhere lost,
>but found again.
>
>It was the moment I feared, he would not feel
>or see...
>
>I tried to paint a picture for him of our old
>classroom.
>Books and pencils left on a dusty shelf...
>
>
>So hard to believe he doesn't remember the soccer
>games and the old village rains.
>
>The oak tree by the road is dead by now.
>
>He left for a better life
>where seasons change at a different pace.
>
>I tried to tell him of hot summer- days
>in New York,
>but he talked of Melbourne's winter chill.
>
>Long distance call was ended...
>
>The light absorbed the sensuality of the day-
>not mine or his,
>but forever embedded on some distant shore of
>Australia.

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Re: One Red Tulip -- icyheart, 04:38:32 08/10/02 Sat