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The Show Must Go On Collaboration With Jeannie Minor

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Thank you again to the uber-talented Jeannie Minor. Occasionally in life we meet someone and make an instant connection. Although, we've never met face to face we made a connection with poetry and it has worked out very well. She is a very special person. It is always a pleasure to work with her. If you have never read her poems, you have done yourself a great disservice.

She's playing the lead On the stage of her life The role of a wife and mother A rehearsed performance Over the years With lost feelings in the scenes with her lover When the play first opened Still learning her part The acting, exciting and loud She saw bright flashing lights A marquee rising star Performing for a make believe crowd All of those years With the same lines and scenes She's lost that fire and zest But night after night In the final act That's when her acting is best It's all in the way She says her good nights Wishing the word was goodbye Honestly meaning Each one from the last Bringing a tear to her eye Carefully crafting The use of her words To tenor the message she's sending The voids became bigger And harder to fill Her desperate attempts of an ending Used as a lover She thinks of another Feeding her hunger for hope Still longing to feel All of life's zest and zeal Through fantasy she learned to cope. With each passing day She's gathering courage To build a brave new life, upon But age has a way To wick courage away As they say... "The show must go on!" written by Jeannie Minor and Daniel Turner

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016




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Date: 7/13/2016 3:20:00 PM
Love Freddie's song Daniel and sing it at the top of my voice in the car. How does it work if the person is not beside you? My only collaboration worked so well because she sat next to me.
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Date: 7/12/2016 12:32:00 AM
What a great collaboration!
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Daniel Turner
Date: 7/12/2016 5:20:00 AM
Thank you Richard. I appreciate your kindness. I give her all of the credit.
Date: 7/11/2016 9:20:00 PM
Ah...I like it Jeannie and DT. Wonderful.
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Daniel Turner
Date: 7/12/2016 5:19:00 AM
Thank you Tim. I appreciate the flowers. Jeannie is an excellent writer and a riot to work with.
Date: 7/11/2016 7:41:00 PM
Great write! Enjoyable.
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Daniel Turner
Date: 7/11/2016 7:44:00 PM
Thank you Tom. I appreciate your kindness. I really enjoy working with Jeannie. Like I said, she is very talented.

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