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Spirits of Easters Past Potd

SPIRITS OF EASTERS PAST On Easter Sunday, Christians celebrate Christ rising from the dead. I loved Easter as a child, it was as special as Christmas and went to my head. Always a brand new dress, and pretty, new Mary Jane shoes. Colored eggs of yellows, reds, pinks and blues. The church flocked with lilies, the altar, marble and gold. This was an event on which, I need not be sold. Afternoon, on Easter, the family came for dinner. We all looked so lovely and the silver candelabra shimmered. It lit up the beige and gold Lenox dinnerware. The family smiling and laughing, who would dare dream of not being there. Mother bought assorted flowers of all colors. It somehow reminded me that people of any skin color, are truly sisters and brothers! Think! Our souls do not in colors come. We are all~God's daughters and sons. Yes, I am aware many threw God overboard. No kidding! I can see it in the USA, where not being a Christian brings one high scores. Try to get into heaven, with God's laws broken in your hands..... Where you have decided, that you are God, and that you created the family of man! The huge Easter baskets were filled with Easter toys and yummy Easter candy. Covered in colores cellophane and huge ribbons, made this day even more dandy. Aunts, uncles, all my cousins, such a glorious family on those Easters were close and handy. Easter was so special in the days way back when. Replaced now by fear of being near others, I would do anything to live back then! When I could hug someone and see those smiles! But that exists only in my mind, and I can revisit those days...only in memory's miles! 4/9/2023

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Date: 4/25/2023 1:56:00 PM
Pangie. That is a beautiful poem. Top shelf, truly moving. You are so right the meaning and message has gone missing. You described it well. Thank GOD not FOR ALL.Stay Creative. Have a great Day. Xo
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Date: 4/25/2023 3:25:00 PM
Wow, two comments in one day! Thank you R.J! Seems all counties have dumped Gud, Churches bending to the WOKE Agends and wrapping themselves in the The TG flag. Being straight was nit a sin. Now it is. Being a Jew orChristian makes us square? It’s up to us to keep traditions, Not trampled by the fads. It’s hard to kept writing at times. Pangie thank you.
Date: 4/13/2023 7:11:00 PM
Here's to holiday memories, the best kind. A belated congrats on POTD, Pangie! Blessings, Gershon
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Date: 4/13/2023 7:26:00 PM
Hi Gershon,, indeed, they are! Appreciate your comment, belated, always welcome. Please check your Soup mail! Gratefully, Pangie
Date: 4/12/2023 7:14:00 AM
Happy Easter memories Pangie, congratulations to you on the honour of POTD. Tom
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Date: 4/12/2023 8:18:00 AM
Tom~ hope that you had a wonderful Easter we did the weather was really nice. Thinking back to Chicago well those were special times and special people. I didn’t think for a second this will get a POTD. And I don’t write to win a thing. I don’t have enough confidence to do that and somehow poetry to me is like prayer. I don’t know if that makes sense to you, but it does for me.. prayers get no trophies. The joy of wring a poem, completion,and satisfaction, and a sense of closure. Pangie .
Date: 4/11/2023 7:36:00 PM
Congratulations on POTD, what a great poem to remind one of the good days,,. making memories, we used to do the same at my great grandmas house , : ).
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Date: 4/11/2023 8:08:00 PM
How nice to see you, Stephan. I have missed you. Glad you found this POTD! How nice we had similar experiences! Thank you for acknowledging me! This is been a very fun day for me, Pangie
Date: 4/11/2023 6:52:00 PM
Congratulations on POTD my friend! Such beauty and elegance. A joy to read again and again. Love Chantelle hugs
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Date: 4/11/2023 7:00:00 PM
Thank you Chantelle. I know you have good memories with your family as well.. Love you, thank you Pangie x o
Date: 4/11/2023 5:47:00 PM
Congratulations, Dear Pangie, on POTD with your wonderful nostalgic poem - touched my heart. Best wishes ~ Mala
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Date: 4/11/2023 7:04:00 PM
Yes, I wii besure. To have you on my follow list, p,ease do soup me if you post a poem yo want me to read, anytime…I need all the inspiration I can get. Love …. Pangie
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Malabika Ray Choudhury
Date: 4/11/2023 6:19:00 PM
Dear Pangie, you are one of my sweetest friends. I am so delighted to read your kind reply. I too value relationships more than anything - and which relationships are more valuable than with talented poets like you! Please stay connected, we can inspire each other. Love and hugs ~ Mala
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Date: 4/11/2023 6:04:00 PM
Dearest Malahabika, you shall never ,know how much your comment means to me. I really try to connect with souls when I write. I do my best! I don’t seek applause. I seek relationship.)) Your last name touches me. When I was first married, one of our best friends had the same last name as yours. I tell you, he was a delight and a compassionate person. Over the decades, we lost contact. That was a loss in my life.He gave me a pair of house slippers from India. Sooo beautiful.! Thank you, Malabika.. Blassings, Panagiota
Date: 4/11/2023 4:19:00 PM
Panagiota, your moments and memories caress softly around me and my heart. So many look to world leaders for guidance, when they need to follow God instead. Your thoughts hold beauty, love and tenderness. Congratulations my dear sweet friend, on Poem of the Day. Many wonderful blessings to you. :) Hugs, Brandy
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Date: 4/11/2023 5:05:00 PM
Lovely,Brandy, dear friend, glad that we are on the same page. So glad you liked my poem.Wish more on our planet would stop thinking lithium batteries and throwing money at wars brings peace.or nutty demonstrations THE FBI,Brandy, is planting agents in Chuches. I think eventually all Churches will be “mandated “ closed. Our kids being killed? The unborn? Unbelievable. Murder, Inc! I am lost, Brandy! You are my Superwoman of Integrity. You stand for Truth here.You are my Inspiration! Thank you, special one Hugs, Pangie.
Date: 4/11/2023 10:16:00 AM
Great write, Pangie, congratulations on POTD my friend
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Date: 4/11/2023 12:14:00 PM
Eve! Hope you are feeling better. Keep in touch.OK! Thank you for your kind and your respectful acknowledgement . Love , Pangie xx
Date: 4/11/2023 10:10:00 AM
Back with Congratulations on your POTD win. I lovely write. I enjoyed reading it again. Have A Blessed Day Writing Away
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Date: 4/11/2023 12:08:00 PM
Paula, Paula! Bless you, dear heart for reading it twice?? You are Amazing, Paula! A POTD is a gift from Team Poetry and God. And the day grows more beautiful as poets like you, join in. Thank you with roses. Hugs, Pangie xx
Date: 4/11/2023 9:15:00 AM
Back to say, Congratulations on this fine POTD, Pangie. Well deserved, I may add. Enjoy your day in the spotlight! Hugs, Bill
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Date: 4/11/2023 9:24:00 AM
Oh, Bill! Well, you forecast this…thank you for being a seer here at PS. You are fun! Thank you for coming back.the sign of a good friend.. Hugs Bill
Date: 4/11/2023 8:18:00 AM
This is a beautiful poem Pangie. What an inspiring introduction to your poetry. This is the first of yours I have read. Congratulations for your POTD. Well deserved.
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Date: 4/11/2023 8:48:00 AM
Welcome Wendy! This is one of 3,033 poems. I am no great writer here. I don’t have a fat head either.I never learned to type, so the result is I don’t comment a lot. You look like a twin af a friend in grammar school.)) When I turn 16 we both were both debutants .together in Chicago. What a great time.. Two Cinderellas Pangie xo Thank you
Date: 4/11/2023 8:07:00 AM
Back to say congratulations on receiving the honour of poem of the day Pangie. Well done! Belle
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Date: 4/11/2023 8:37:00 AM
Hurrah,Belle is here! Ring those chimes! It takes a heart filled with love to come back to a poem that you already commented on. Poetry is a craft one does not learn in five years. It takes gem to be a really good poet. I am still learning, God bless you, Pangie
Date: 4/11/2023 8:02:00 AM
Congratulations on the POTD for this wonderful poem. I really loved this one about Easter.
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Date: 4/11/2023 8:28:00 AM
Elena, I know how much you would have loved to grown up when I did. I could leave my convertible open! Park it and go inside. Nary a soul would steal it. Now you get car jacked? A nutty society we live in we think internet friends are the best.behind the scenes, you get destroyed, or to your face. They just walk out of your life, like you are dirt.I don’t understand life as it is today. I understand unconditional love…it exists in what is left of my family. Glad you liked this. Thank you, much Pangie xo
Date: 4/11/2023 7:39:00 AM
Hey Pangie. I'm back with huge congrats on your wonderful POTD with this nostalgic write! hugs! :)
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Date: 4/11/2023 7:50:00 AM
This shocked me Linda! But am happy to accept your congratulations, in any case. Nostalgia is as sweet as candy in the poem. Thank you dear friend. Love, Pangie
Date: 4/11/2023 6:22:00 AM
Congrats, Pangie, for this well-written and nostalgic piece! Bob
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Date: 4/11/2023 6:35:00 AM
Howdy, Bob ~ on Easter and always, appreecite your friensship and input. Tank you for being a lasting friend here at the Soup. We both have Hugh respect for each other. You are a gift. Thanks for being here today, especially! Pangie xo
Date: 4/11/2023 6:18:00 AM
Hugs, anyway, for POTD, P! Smiles for miles, Gershon
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Date: 4/11/2023 6:28:00 AM
Yes, Gershon. We all had different upbringings. Family relationships were important in our house. Church, being an important part of my life. Thank you ,Pangie
Date: 4/11/2023 5:54:00 AM
Congratulations for POTD . Beautiful Easter memories. Very nice :)
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Date: 4/11/2023 6:23:00 AM
Miss Heidi, hope you had a pleasant Easter that was beautiful as well. Thank you for taking the time to stop by!! Too ackknowledge another’s work shows you have a big heart. Hugs, Pangie
Date: 4/11/2023 4:41:00 AM
Hello Panagiota, Congratulations on the POTD.A beautiful poem for Easter. Hugs,/Darlene\xxx
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Darlene De Beaulieu
Date: 4/11/2023 10:32:00 AM
Hello Panagiota,I have always loved God.I feel your hug now. You are welcome. Thank you for the comment of being a true friend. Hugs. /Darlene\ xxx
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Date: 4/11/2023 5:28:00 AM
Dearest Darlene, I really wish I were in Canada. I would hug you if I was there ….thank you for commenting to me for five years you are a true friend ….you never leave.. Tou have the quality of fidelity! That is no small thing. God does not abandon those who love him either! With love, Panagiota
Date: 4/11/2023 4:08:00 AM
Pangie, congratulations on POTD!
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Date: 4/11/2023 5:17:00 AM
Tania~ how lovely to see you here! And thank you so much for so doing! Pangie
Date: 4/11/2023 1:55:00 AM
- Back with congratulations on your p.o.t.d., Pangie :) - hugs
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Date: 4/11/2023 5:38:00 AM
My dearest Sunshine! People like you will come back I have angels wings on their back, you lovely Poetess! Hugs, Pangie xx
Date: 4/11/2023 1:02:00 AM
Back with Congratulations Pangie on your marvellous POTD, indeed it seems to have caught the whole spirit of Easter past, and brought it back to life in fine detail, hope you enjoy the honour today, it’s so well deserved, cheers David
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Date: 4/11/2023 5:45:00 AM
Daniel, people like you with acknowledge others, are very special. Thank you for being very specific about the poem. I never write to win!!! A POTD is granted by a Team, it really moves me. Pangie with hugs
Date: 4/10/2023 8:48:00 PM
Ditto! Peacefulness…Lovely write, Pangie!
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Date: 4/10/2023 9:01:00 PM
Kim…..I really do wish you had been one of lovely, younger, cousins and actually had been there!! Peacefulness and joy were the hallmarks of my childhood.. And, thank you for the compliment on the poem.. Panagiota
Date: 4/10/2023 8:08:00 AM
- Many happy memories from back in the day... imagine being able to go back in time... let our children see... this good family time... a wonderful poem, Pangie :) - hugs
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Date: 4/10/2023 10:45:00 AM
A most moving comment, from you, Sunshine! It’s easy for me to go back in time and observe the beauty, grace and kindness. Relationships laced in love. Not only on Easter, but year round. I also have photos of those days,I tell you, they were magical days of grace, beauty and respect. Paagiota
Date: 4/10/2023 7:19:00 AM
A FAV for me, Pangie. I miss those Easter Sundays as you do. We live in a different world now with many different views of the good life. I like the times you speak of ... the good ol' days. :-) Well written with a lovely message my friend ... should be a poem of the day! Hugs, Bill
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Date: 4/11/2023 5:15:00 AM
Bill.you must be a seer. This ded become a POTD. Pangie with hugs.
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Date: 4/10/2023 10:19:00 AM
Oh, my. Thank you for reading my.poem. It was lengthy and my oh my, Bill, you are so right in your assessment..Even in our personal presentations, for me..I am shocked how people dress, eat, etc.That aura of respectability seems to have vanished. I was taught manners, respectability, early on and Church events were a big part of my life. We kids all had prayer books. Life was good. Lovely you said, this should be a POTD. Our society no longer honors human life nor .God. Children die in schools. While we are the new Sodom and Gemorhha. Hugs,Pangie
Date: 4/9/2023 3:29:00 PM
Hello Panagiota, A beautiful poem for Easter. It will be my fav. Hugs. xxx/Darlene\
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Darlene De Beaulieu
Date: 4/10/2023 4:04:00 AM
Hello Panagiota, you are welcome. Yes I would have enjoyed it if I were there. Yes we are all God's daughters and sons. Hugs. /DArlene\ xxx
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Date: 4/9/2023 6:32:00 PM
Dear Darlene, wow I am so grateful to you for FAVING this poem. And I do wish that you had been there with us because I know you would’ve loved every minute of the conversation and the gentility. Pangie
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