"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." ~George Bernard Shaw

"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time." ~Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn


Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Magpie 33

Is this a liquor to sip or?
A scent to adore?
Mi amor...?

Is it a remembrance of lusty times
Or a scent of rosemary thymes?
Mon ami?

Or is it love scented fragments
Of golden hued moments
Glistening con tigo ?
Long ago?
Wasn't it just yesterday?

34 comments:

  1. That last stanza has me sighing!!!!
    So clever!

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  2. Anonymous11:00 PM

    I'm the first one here!! (unless you're holding onto to other comments...and if that's the case, grrr)

    I wish I could write poetry like you do, but I'm stuck plodding along with story lines that contain no mystery of romance.

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  3. well. depends on what kind of moment did u spend with it :D
    good magpie!

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  4. Oh the sweet smell of memories, can seem like yesterday...Kathe this is beautiful! :-)

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  5. Lovely romantic Magpie. Ciao!

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  6. "Glistening con tigo.." Oh my. Love and Light, Sender

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  7. It always feels like only yesterday . . .

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  8. "golden hued moments" Isn't it a blessing that they nver go! Lovely.

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  9. This is lovely! It really captures that sense of memory being attached to scent.

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  10. ... yesterday when I was young, the taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue .... Your Magpie reminds us all!

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  11. "Glistening con tigo! I don't know what it means but I love it!

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  12. So romantic..one could dance to it!! Lovely...

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  13. love it..it is all of these and more....very nice..bkm

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  14. this is gorgeous
    I wish I could hear it
    and smell it :)

    Rene

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  15. A sweet and wonderfully 'scentual' read!

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  16. The last stanza made me giggle. great magpie and take on the picture. :) River

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  17. Scents and the memoires they evoke ...beautifully written.

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  18. I love it. And it is always just yesterday!

    I just followed you and for some reason darned Google didn't have my usual image, so I'm there as a silhouette. I may delete and try again.

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  19. Wonderfully written work! Linking the cologne to memories of love. =)

    -Weasel

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  20. I vote for just yesterday.

    Love the romantic nature of this, the longing questions, the memories.

    BEAUTIFUL!

    (And thank you for the comment on my magpie, so appreciated.)

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  21. This has a light, whimsical feel that I really like.

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  22. This is very, very well-done.

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  23. just one sniff and its easy to remember...nice write...great magpie!

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  24. Love the air of romance... with a little tit for tat. pulled me right in. Great mag!

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  25. a familiar scent can flood someone with such memories :) Great poem :)

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  26. Love your approach to this!

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  27. Dear Kathew: Very sensitive portrait of the sensual kind; This line is so romantic!
    "love scented fragments Of golden hued moments". Thank-you!

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  28. Aromatically beautiful. Nice magpie.

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  29. Love the way it flows. Nice Magpie!

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  30. Once again, wonderful mag Kathew... Loved the way you structured it and wondered what it really was... I can go with any of them or all of them.. Terific Mag..

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  31. I love the languages...and the options! Nice.

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