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The Coat

Maybe you could tell, I wasn't doing that well, so you took off your coat and gave it to me. Felt the warmth of you in shades of powder blue, though it was supposed to be our spring. Always looking over your shoulder, your soul seems wiser and older.. yet leftover seasons won't let you be.. what was it you hoped to see? Weeks and months came and went, fragile years so quickly spent. Are you happy now that I wrote? Or maybe angry.. I never returned your coat.

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Date: 3/25/2025 3:23:00 AM
easy to get so attached to what saved us, that its hard to let go. I can see how hard it is to return the coat, love this
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Quoth Theraven
Date: 4/20/2025 10:29:00 AM
Thank you Mystic Rose. So many coats in a wonderful and wide world waiting to be returned. -Richard
Date: 3/16/2025 4:38:00 PM
Loved this. The ending was superb. You really "pulled it off"
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Andrea Dietrich
Date: 3/17/2025 2:03:00 PM
Yes I get that, Richard. Great poem
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Date: 3/16/2025 6:05:00 PM
Happy Sunday Andrea, Thanks, we all have our favorites to wear. The coat in this poem is used somewhat metaphorically. It represents the warm feeling and a moment in time dearly held. -Richard
Date: 3/16/2025 8:46:00 AM
I like that last line. Person must have liked the coat. Relationships are fragile, so this poem attests to.
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Date: 3/16/2025 6:10:00 PM
Happy Sunday Hilda, six more weeks of Winter prognosticated by Punxsutawney Phil perhaps? I meant to return 'the coat'. But it went unwanted just the same. See my other comment to Andrea. -Richard

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