Time Unfolding
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So I wait for you like a lonely house, till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache.
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Pablo Neruda

Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.
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L.M. Montgomery

bare hangers
pressed against the wall
I miss you
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Paula Lietz

When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.
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Margaret Atwood

We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.
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Leo Tolstoy

I learnt to drive
as soon as I could I headed for town
dust held aloft my essence ~
with misgiving it settled
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Paula Lietz

home stranded
amidst birth and death
with a word, a sentence,
a paragraph
a chapter, the volume read,
the book now closed
but for the silken threads
weaving the chromosomal
balance of life forever caught
within the folds of faded particles
that we call home
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Paula Lietz

Take Me Now
reserved shadow
revelled in fiery
colours of Autumn
danced in celebration
the wind teased
this way and that
hide and seek
the trees longing
to play ~ let go
I shut my eyes
my arms opened
wide and I rejoiced
with the falling leaves
take me now
take me now
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Paula Lietz

timeless enticement
the view spans a century
and dreams of dreamers
intent on reality
plot the possibilities
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Paula Lietz

time has no meaning
your Grandfather use to say
I watched memories
fleet across my Grandma's face
her passion her love her own
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Paula Lietz

Cycles

I told Pa the fella wasn't worth the shells he had wasted. That as the city slickers would say was a faux pas, this reality simply made him madder.
Me...soon after my fifteenth birthday I began to throw up. I watched Ma watch me, her hand on her belly. She never said a word. I wanted her to hold me, baby like.

as her mother did
a girl croons a lullaby
round round we go
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Paula Lietz

we were told to hush
and not to repeat his name
nor tales overheard
he would appear abruptly
and knew all the whiskey runs
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Paula Lietz

no one ever knew
the pride she took in the stairs
or the west window
the prairie isolated
women more so than the men
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Paula Lietz