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Almost Love

you were NEVER mine... yet I felt you slip through my aching fingers, like arthritis longing to be healed. you are my rose never picked- yet the thorns deeply pricked I endured the sorrow of a death that never died- for you are my wound that was never cut, and I am virtually scarred... FOREVERMORE. saturated in ebon loss without you even knowing I exist, I drown in tidal cascades of knowing you will never see my perpetual eyes. and oh- the way they look at you. so I say to thee like a fleeting ivory dove, you know me not- but you're my ALMOST LOVE... August 27, 2018

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Date: 1/1/2019 12:58:00 PM
Love the raw emotion, Lu Loo. Congrats on your win.
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Date: 1/1/2019 12:32:00 PM
Romance personified Lu Loo!
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Date: 12/30/2018 8:17:00 PM
CONGRATS on your well-deserved win, LuLoo--very moving! Janice
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Date: 12/30/2018 8:16:00 PM
Congratulations on your win, laura, the imagery is fantastic in this well written poem. May you have a blessed Happy New Years. Hugs Eve ~`*
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Date: 12/30/2018 3:22:00 PM
Lu Loo, congrats on your win on mile 6 of my 2019 Poetry Marathon contest! I don't know what's worse, experiencing an "Frozen Farewell" like Greg wrote about, or enduring an "Almost Love." Yikes! Passionately piercing, poignant and painful! Brilliant! A Fav for me. ~Mark
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Date: 9/28/2018 8:45:00 PM
More congrats on your well deserved top win, Laura.
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Date: 9/11/2018 8:51:00 PM
Congrats on your podium finish, Laura. Well penned.
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Date: 9/11/2018 6:47:00 AM
Oh, Laura, I think we've all had one of these.....haunting "if only's" and "I wonder's"...Great metaphor in here also. Thanks for entering the contest
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Date: 9/10/2018 10:25:00 PM
Congrats to win on your wonderful poem. 'I drown n tidal cascades....nice flow. Love.
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Date: 8/30/2018 9:39:00 AM
Congratulations on your #1 win. Amazing how this filters into heartwarming and heartwrenching st sane time with few words.
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Lu Loo
Date: 9/11/2018 5:39:00 AM
thank you sweet Susan! :)-luloo
Date: 8/28/2018 5:12:00 PM
Oh this is so poignant, especially the lines 'sorrow of a death that never died", congratulations on placing in the contest!
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Lu Loo
Date: 9/11/2018 5:39:00 AM
thank you sweet Michelle :)-luloo
Date: 8/27/2018 9:45:00 AM
A wonderful poem. So pragmatic.Really nice.
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Lu Loo
Date: 9/11/2018 5:38:00 AM
thank you :)-luloo
Date: 8/27/2018 9:39:00 AM
So nice. Its pleasing to ear and touchy to mind and heart.
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Lu Loo
Date: 9/11/2018 5:38:00 AM
thank you Abdur :)-luloo

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