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Almaz Made the Flowers Arrange-

As I did gaze upon her for the first time as she labored in small shop in what appeared to be a hole in a wall that open into this place where she did work all day. Almaz was an Ethiopian beauty with gorges reddish color hair which was filled with big curly locks that seem to flow into an endless chasm of never ending twist and turns, with a smile that seem to light up that tiny little room. A rare beauty was she to behold, elegant yet graceful and humble in her soul…as I did watch her as she did strategically place each flower by hand one by one and with each gentile twist or turn of her soft golden tone skin colored hands until a work of art was form inside of each vase that they did adorn. Sometimes the vases were made of glass or maybe of some type of fine cultivated stone … but each one that was made to become a work of art made to express someone else’s declared love or concern for a love of family member or even the lost of an unrequited love and she did do her best to express their thoughts with the arrangement made from the heart. With her beautiful brown eye’s that seem to tell a story of a pain and a deep love for her family… that she displayed with each piece of work that she did make. With each day of hard work in this small shop where she toiled all day in her endless attempt to repay her family for a debt that she so desperately wanted to repay…for it was the love of her father that had brought Almaz the flower arranger to this place. So many people do take the love of their family for granted, but… no not this lady…no not this lady…no not her ever, not even for a second in a day. Almaz made the flowers arrange all day, all for a debt of love that she wanted to repay. Little did she know that it was already repaid in full… with a father’s silent pray of love to see his daughter in a place where her dreams could blossom in the promise land, were no Kings are crowned or Queens ruled, but in this place of commoners were freedom was born to rule. Were even the poorest of men could rise to the highest office in the land. Truly your father has completed his arrangement in the vase with the most beautiful flower that he could find to place it in for the whole world to see, Almaz you are that flower that completes his arrangement.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2009




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Date: 7/15/2012 7:20:00 AM
Congrats on your excellent poem being featured this week....Patrick
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Date: 7/14/2012 7:50:00 AM
Congratulations on your poetry being featured this week Jay. Love, Carol
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Date: 7/8/2012 3:53:00 PM
jay, congratulations with your featured poem of the week.. hope you are enjoying yours~Always ;-) PD
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