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Premium Member Cedar Chest of Memories
Music fills the air, as the  radio plays
Letting go of memories, bringing back forgotten faces
Daddy took that photograph...a captured you, a smiling trace
A magic moment....a magic day...
You gave me your cameo, that birthday in May...
There was joy in your face, while I posed dressed...

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Categories: cedar chest, daughter, love, mother,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Stuck In the Cedar Chest
‘Twas a child’s game of hide and seek,
My brother’s turn to count.
Where could I hide he would not look,
Thus settle our account?

Our mother’s room, her closet, No!
He’ll check there first of all.
The bathroom, No! I hid there once.
The chest beside the wall!

I climbed inside that...

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Categories: cedar chest, scary,
Form: Rhyme
A Little Painted Cedar Chest
I can still remember an old beau,
A girlfriend wanted me to meet,
He was much older than I,
But played the piano oh so sweet.

He owned a peanut farm 
A little to the west of my town,
Money was not a problem for him,
He just liked to drive...

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Categories: cedar chest, nostalgia,
Form: Light Verse

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