"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


Sunday, July 13, 2014

Magpie Tales #228

Image provided by Tess Kincaid


Once new and fresh
High hopes for the future
Worn by threadbare decisions
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Step lightly
Don't tread on me
These are not the stairs to heaven
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This week's image was a challenge.
You choose which one you like.
Meanwhile step over here 
and read what others write.

19 comments:

  1. Yes, a wonderful place heaven, do not lose hope!

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  2. Nice poem, and I really love that last line.

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  3. It was once new and fresh. Imagine how many steps have been made on them to wear it through this way! So much life going up and down those stairs.

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  4. Touching and provocative.

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  5. I actually like them both together! Kind of like ying and yang working together!

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  6. I hope my comment comes through. I used my phone, and blogger sometimes does odd things with comments. I think that both are perfect working together.

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  7. Step lightly, indeed! :-)

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  8. Seems the personal heaven is not always so heavenly !

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  9. Can't choose a favorite ... I like both of them.

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  10. Our decisions determine a lot in our life but, there is always hope for the future.

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  11. Too many threadbare decisions
    step lightly

    I enjoyed this.

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  12. No stairway to heaven but stepped on? They sure have been.

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  13. Anonymous3:43 AM

    "These are not the stairs to heaven." But they may the steps to rediscovering those high hopes, Kathe.

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  14. Loved these, Kathe, I will be on tiptoes up and down!

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  15. Maybe not heaven...but close...

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  16. Maybe not heaven...but close...

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  17. Love the truth in these Kathe :-)

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