Our Home Within



                                                   A
                                               warm
                                            safe place
                                        out of the cold,
                                   with  all   you   might 
                                need  to   have   to   hold.
                          Each frame, each shelf, reflects 
                  who you are. A moving sculpture of your 
                 memoirs. It's walls and floors absorb every 
                 voice... each wail or cry, and every time we 
                 rejoice. In the still and quiet the dark sighs
                and the echo of a thousand footsteps go by. 
                And yet ... and yet,  If the roof  caved in and
               the    walls fell down, in my   memories   are   
               these  same ghostly sounds. It is in the hand 
              my child holds  and the  stories my   husband
              has told. Our home is so dear to us but always 
              within,  our temple of blood and bone and skin.

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Date: 3/6/2025 6:34:00 AM
A very interesting turn dear friend, from home to home within. amazing thought, congratulations on your win. cheers!!!
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Date: 3/5/2025 1:59:00 PM
Lovely Cristol. I liked your movement from concrete to abstract. Our bodies indeed are a home, a shelter. Congratulations!
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Date: 3/5/2025 11:40:00 AM
This is sweet and beautiful to the eyes.
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Date: 3/5/2025 1:35:00 AM
What a warm and solid poetry, Crystol. Just like a home should be. Congrats!
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Crystol Woods
Date: 3/5/2025 11:20:00 AM
Thank you! Xo
Date: 2/22/2025 2:33:00 PM
Hello Cyrstol, The home is where the heart is. A family together under a roof. Hugs. /Darlene/
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Darlene De Beaulieu
Date: 2/23/2025 3:42:00 PM
Hello Cyrstol, You are welcome. Hugs. /Darlene/
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Crystol Woods
Date: 2/23/2025 12:07:00 PM
Yess, thanks! Xo
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