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Bric-A-Brac

If you found a fragment of an ancient Greek vase in sand on the edge of the surf, you can find as well all the others, provided that you have an eternity. A time; a sea; salty and warm surf's hands, sorting through a treasure, gifts from who knows who to who knows whom, a bric-a-brac* of life: green, white, orange shards of glass, turned into gems by numbers one and second on this list; a button; a dime; a cork; a toothless comb; a children's plastic scoop; an oval shell; pebbles, tangled up in the algae's brown beard; a cheap, enamel on silver, ringlet (my girlfriend lost it here in July. We got married in September, but she still feels sorry of this ringlet). * (fr.) A collection of all sorts of rarities, art objects or just useless stuff. 24/07/2019 Writing Challenge 3, July 2019 - List - Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Dear Heart

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Date: 7/26/2019 10:53:00 PM
Could it be the One Ring?
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Kurt Ravidas
Date: 7/27/2019 7:03:00 AM
Hm, hoping not. Anyway, it's lost and we take no responsibility for all this mess)
Date: 7/26/2019 12:26:00 AM
Kurt, So sorry for the lost ringlet. But the dime and plastic scoop, quite a find. Wonderfully written poem. -Richard
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Kurt Ravidas
Date: 7/26/2019 10:48:00 AM
Thanks, QtR. I bet you will collect the complete vase)

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