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I Am Reminded of My Mother's Advice

i am reminded of my mother's advice
find a woman with God dearest in her heart
be grateful if she comes to love you
sit at His feet therein and blessings be yours
i am again lost in photos of you
when life held you in precious moments
those perennials you so loved
each as knight errant before your roses
lost in hues from rose, lavender, and blue
butterflies appearing
as they eagerly searched for their drams
wings of white, yellow, and orange
your marrow fills me 
now a longing held within
times when i hunger to approach that Throne
upon supplicant knees
offer every blessing life has given
for simply one more moment
in your arms

   OKC 5/22

“Love is not love which alters it when alteration finds or bends with the remover to remove: O no! It is an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken; it is the star to every wandering bark whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken."  William Shakespeare

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David Drowley

Date: 6/13/2022 8:25:00 AM

Thank you for such heartfelt expression of love! What a joyful reunion you can anticipate.

Timothy Ray
Date: 6/13/2022 8:30:00 AM

yes David, as my poem Death explains....with that first breath i was promised eternity

Valsa George

Date: 5/22/2022 7:10:00 PM

I am sure your mother must have been a wonderful lady so full of divine wisdom ! The advice she has given you is the very advice I give to both my sons ! If a God loving woman comes to one's life with love, blessings will flow on his way ! I too share your mother's interest in flowers and miss my mother a lot ! Beautiful poem, Timothy

Timothy Ray
Date: 6/7/2022 8:52:00 AM

i am often quoting mother, says a lot now does it not....thank you, your thought are high value herein