A Part of the Past Frozen In Time

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You can 
drive your whole life 
not look upon the face
of harbingers in spring wet earth. 
Remembering the ephemeral warm
Mediterranean summers
clean Petrich or fresh rain 
bucolic life 
setting.

Yielding 
a nostalgic 
propinquity city's
efflorescence dress brick building. 
The epiphany of an old church as 
it sings the echoes of erstwhile. 
Redolent warm feeling 
Victorian 
versed homes.

Yester 
years fine brushstrokes. 
Trees towering on the
outskirts of the demesne beauty 
Unique, intertwined dalliance with the
farmed and the wild a wonderful 
serendipity finds 
quiet hunger
of life.

3/31/2016

The city's two-block business district consists of the original brick buildings built in the 1880s and 1890s
I use to work in the Oakland School. They have left the very small town  the same, it's like walking into the past. It lays in a valley surrounded by mountains. A very old silo still stands where they use to burn the woodchips. Very beautiful old town.

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Date: 4/27/2016 10:26:00 PM
Eve, Congratulations on your "Day in town win. XOX *LINDA*
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Date: 4/27/2016 11:29:00 PM
thank you <3 hugs eve
Date: 4/15/2016 6:16:00 AM
Congrats on your win x too hard for me LOL
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Date: 4/15/2016 5:40:00 AM
Eve, I didn't even want to attempt this one. Your entry is so impressive and wonderfully worded. Very deserving of your first placement. Congratulations! #7 :)
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Date: 4/15/2016 5:12:00 AM
Very rich in poetry... Very enjoyable reading...Congratulations on your win...
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Date: 4/14/2016 10:46:00 PM
Congrats on a great win Eve
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Date: 4/14/2016 7:07:00 PM
I did one too but not quite as good as this one. BIG congrats on your well deserved win, Eve.
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Date: 4/14/2016 6:34:00 PM
Congratulations on the placement of the contest
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Date: 4/14/2016 4:06:00 PM
Excellent poem Eve. My sincere apologies for my mistake of omitting the poem in the winners list.
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Date: 4/14/2016 5:54:00 PM
thank you so very much you made my day !!!! Hugs Eve
Date: 4/3/2016 9:53:00 PM
Great write Eve....best wishes
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Date: 4/3/2016 5:50:00 PM
WOWOWOW, you did amazing with those words. I did two stanzas trying hard to fit them all in. Maybe I will do three because I had to leave out lots of good details to make all those words fit. I love your work here!
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Date: 4/3/2016 6:03:00 PM
Thank you, Andrea, I didn't think I could do it. There are to many syllables in the words to make it in one stanza. Good luck in your poem. You always come out amazing !!!!
Date: 4/2/2016 12:02:00 PM
Excellent poem my lovely friend drawn with beautiful colors. Loved always, bl
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Date: 4/2/2016 10:53:00 PM
BL, thank you so very much Hugs Eve
Date: 4/1/2016 7:21:00 PM
Eve, this is so impressive and vivid, I am loving this poem 7 ~
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Date: 4/2/2016 10:54:00 PM
Constance, thank you so very much I loved being there almost everyday. Hugs Eve
Date: 4/1/2016 5:57:00 AM
Best of luck Eve:)...You amazed me with gorgeous form! thank you for putting me to work expanding my vocabulary. Your piece radiates----winner!!,,,,peace, jill
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Date: 4/1/2016 1:08:00 PM
Jill, thank you so very much for the wonderful compliment it really inspires me to work harder. Hugs Eve
Date: 4/1/2016 12:13:00 AM
Yes when I saw the photo made me wish to visit there!!!! hugs
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Date: 3/31/2016 11:47:00 PM
Loved the form Eve! and the poem itself, the topic makes me just wander off into the past! Great write!
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Date: 3/31/2016 11:52:00 PM
Hello Arthur, I use to work in the Oakland School. They have left it the same it's like walking into the past. It lays in a valley surrounded by mountains. A very old silo still stands where they use to burn the woodchips. Very beautiful old town.
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