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Life Has Lessons

Warm apricot jam is this life. Jam melted running into corners is where lessons are learned; a little hard or real hard ones in succession. Ideas, ideals that we dream of become those valuable hard lessons. In time we see they are which produce character, these are a must. Mistakes, oversights, wrongs must be lived over and lived over and lived again until we learn the lessons to life, which will forever be ingrained into our being, then understood End line: A quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson A Finish A bright clear light of the rising sun Reveals the dark corners are now clean The Apricot Jam has changed into clear light All the lessons are melded into one fine character Inspired by HGarvey Daniel Esquire's contest

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Date: 11/17/2015 11:15:00 PM
I agree, the only way we can learn is by living and discovering right from wrong on our own... Your end line poem was very, very well written. Congrats on a great win, Sara!
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Date: 11/12/2015 10:50:00 AM
Very nice write, Sara. Lots a of meaning here.
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Date: 11/5/2015 3:20:00 PM
Hey Sara, a warm and hearty congratulations on your wonderful win! A great treatise on the many varied lessons of life. Excellent. Be Blessed, Neva
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Date: 11/5/2015 12:15:00 PM
Sara, Congratulations on your End Line Win. LOVE SKAT
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Date: 11/4/2015 11:05:00 PM
Congrats on huge win Sara with this superb write!
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Date: 11/4/2015 11:41:00 AM
I agree with you, Sara...life teaches while we learn (if we pay enough attention!). We cannot live in the past, but we can learn from it in order to achieve a better present and future. I think I ought to order some of your apricot jam:) ~ Congrats on a very merited win. Regards // paul
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Date: 11/4/2015 10:36:00 AM
Congratulations, taste life before it sucks flavour out of you
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Date: 9/22/2015 1:32:00 PM
This is very good, Sara. I like it. Inspired... So you did not enter it? A pity... hugs!
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Date: 9/22/2015 8:40:00 AM
Sara, very nice for the contest, well done and thanks for visiting my poem, October flowers
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Date: 9/19/2015 4:06:00 PM
And yes very wise lessons to heed from your poem. Thank you:-)
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Date: 9/19/2015 10:58:00 AM
Your words speak with the power of experience and your mind set flows onto the page and we can share their wisdom with you. Emile.
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Date: 9/19/2015 10:30:00 AM
deep philosophical content with a touch of wisdom.Enjoyed this a lot.Good luck in the contest.
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