Scars Left Behind

cigarette burns
up and down her left arm
morse code s.o.s

1/20/13
Black Eyed Susan

Copyright © | Year Posted 2013



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Date: 4/20/2013 8:34:00 PM
Hi Susan, Wow! said it so perfectly succinct. Congratulations!!! Sent you a soup mail
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Date: 3/17/2013 10:18:00 AM
so many deliver with only so little words. greatly penned, Susan.
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Date: 2/8/2013 7:27:00 PM
Now is the time for all good friends to do something! Nice Senryu Cynthia
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Date: 2/8/2013 5:57:00 PM
Yayyy, I see you got a win. Big congrats, Susan.
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Date: 2/7/2013 11:01:00 AM
congrats..PD
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Date: 2/7/2013 10:26:00 AM
Belated Conrats on your top spot Susan xx
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Date: 2/6/2013 7:00:00 PM
Wowser! You sure addressed the issue head on and with so few words! Congrad's on your win. Light & Love
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Date: 2/5/2013 6:52:00 PM
Very well written and very real problem. Congrats
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Date: 2/5/2013 6:42:00 PM
Powerful words. Congrats on your win. Warm Smiles, Connie
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Date: 1/31/2013 10:03:00 AM
very cool write very true also
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Date: 1/31/2013 6:55:00 AM
DANGEROUS, DANGEROUS ....... HELP! - STOP SMOKING! - oxox / / Anne-Lise :)
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Date: 1/30/2013 11:43:00 PM
soupmail
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Date: 1/26/2013 2:20:00 PM
love this powerful and scary write, Susan. Thanks very much - great contest : )
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Date: 1/24/2013 6:49:00 AM
Hi, Susan, just stopping by your newest poem again. Hope to see you over here more often!
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Date: 1/22/2013 9:37:00 AM
This is an excellent and beautifully sad Senryu my dearest friend, Susan! Thank you so much for sharing! I hope you're doing well. I'm missing one of my fav. poets, also one of my reasons of stopping by. Have a great day always! love and big hugs, Leonora
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Date: 1/20/2013 5:30:00 PM
Wow......this is dark, dramatic, and somber. well done. ps.....and many thanks, Susan, for my placement in "Taken". An honor it was !!
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Date: 1/20/2013 1:27:00 PM
Great senryu, Susan. Dramatic! Love, Kim
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Date: 1/20/2013 11:46:00 AM
I LIKES it, Susan!!! I know you can give us even more than that though. Surely you have written others recently. Post them up!!! and try some of the contest themes. It's great to see you here today.
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Date: 1/20/2013 11:04:00 AM
This is so very true Susan, and if I saw that I would think that same thing! This is an incredible write, what a significant poem, Great Work!!
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Date: 1/20/2013 10:42:00 AM
oooh yes answer it xx
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