When dawn became morning, with the graceful arms of a ballerina, she tossed bread crumbs to finches and towhees gathered at the feeder. Sadly the flowers lay drenched in nights raindrops, puddled petals in a potpourri garden.
Wiping dried wax from the bedside table she replaced melting candles that held too many memories. Her silk scarves were cached in a pale blue armoire but for the rose hued tossed across the night lamp.
The hours pass slowly in a room blushed with moon-glow, the faint scent of sandalwood and a hint of dried lavender.
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Hello, Holly,
This was so sentimental and sweetly expressed. I see the after effects of longing and hurt in tis image-filled poem. It perfectly holds the feelings shown in the artistic painting shown.
Things are going in a fair way with my grandson, Landen. He is on prednisone and facing radiation and chemo. He amuses us by saying to help with his appetite: “I have a card to use legalized marijuana!” Love and hugs, Robin xo
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Thank you Robin. Landon is a little trooper. I’ve been thinking about him. Such a courageous little boy and a beautiful sense of humor ! I’m sending all my most positive thoughts and encouragement his way. Please keep me updated on this precious boy. Hugs and so much love coming your way. Holly Rene. ♥️💕🌹
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❤️❤️
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So amazingly beautiful.
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Thank you Nico 🌺
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Beautiful!!
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Thank you Yassy, so very appreciate!
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😊🙂 thank you too and welcome , always !
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😊😊
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Ahh, sandalwood! Ah, lavender! …..and you Holly, are sandearwood with a hint of lavendear.
Love the silk scarf over the lampshade. It was an intrinsic part of creating mood for Jimi Hendrix. I adore all of the romantic feelings created herein.
Of course, I want to drape one of my silk scarves over my bedside lamp. However, my third eye sees smoke and fire, the smoke detector wailing and those gorgeous men from the TFD showing up to save me.
Hmm, let me check my scarf collection! ❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦
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Lol! One must be careful with silk and candles but I know you are a risk taker and if the house goes up in flames it won’t be from a candle 🥂🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Ah….hahahahahahaha!
Hmmmm, I wonder if there’s a market out there for asbestos scarves? 🙈🙉🙊
Just 🐒ing around.😜
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Ah, I love scarves over lamps. Did I say that out loud? 😎
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You and Resa are so squirrelly…I love it.
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We are totally squirrelly. It’s a known fact. Thanks for tolerating …er…loving it. ♥️
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No, silently on internet.
However, I’m thinking you meant asbestos scarves. 😜
Gi thinks were squirrels. I’m down with that! 🐿I could only find a chipmunk.
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I love squirrells, not the rabid kind that bite though. Nuts to that. 🐿🥜(I really hope that’s a nut ).
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Looks close! I think we’re out of our league here, as peanuts are legumes & we’re talking nuts.
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You seem to be a lot more hip
To what’s up with nuts than me. 😊
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Hip? You mean hep?
Well, that’s just nuts!
🍷I had some wine 🍷
I should say goodnight, Gracie!
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Hip,hep…I don’t know. Goodnight Gracie.
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xo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hNqmuTvbik xo
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xo
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Beautiful, softly hued, and delicate, Holly.
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Thank you so much Diana.
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Beautiful descriptions.
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Thank you Gigi.
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You had me with the title, I could smell the incense. 🙂
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Good, that was my plan. Thank you Maverick 😊
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I agree about the title. This was romantic and melancholy. I don’t know if there’s a word for that. 🙂
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Thank you Merril, perhaps melancholy is the word. 😊
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Maybe. But I did find this: https://www.bustle.com/articles/93619-14-words-for-sadness-and-depression-that-dont-exist-in-english
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Excellent! I think “wistfulness” is what I’m looking for. Thank you Merril! 😊
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Yes, definitely wistful!
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I love that word. So poignant.
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Beautiful my dear 🙂
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Thank you Gyslaine. 😊
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A lovely composition!
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I love your expressions of two scents so beautiful. I also love the scarf part. I love scarves. ♡
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Thank you Michelle! ❤
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Beautifully written Holly.. Sandlewood a fragrance I love, and I only this summer collected the heads off of some of our lavender bushes to dry.. Our Granddaughter couldn’t sleep on a sleep over the other week, So I put some broken lavender heads into a small little net bag.. She loved it.. And I think it helped her sleep..
LOVE and Hugs.. ❤
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That’s so sweet. Lavender is so beautifully fragrant when dried, I’m sure she did love that. Love and many hugs Sue ♥️
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So romantic, Holly! There’s mulled wine, and I’m in heaven. Sorry, have to prepare for the next eight months without summer feeling here. The only “fun” is mulled wine. 😉 Michael
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I will miss the beautiful change of seasons Michael, I recall the mulled wine and egg nog sitting on the window sill until it is thick with ice crystals. I will now have to decorate the palm trees with Christmas lights. Ah! such is life.
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We should change our locations. ***lol*** Love palm trees, but here we really have eight months coldness.
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I lived in Germany for a few years and in the dead of winter I forgot my keys and could not wake my landlord (maybe he was ignoring me ,lol) sat on the stoop till midnight half frozen when the neighbors came home and saved me! Still loved the winter time over there.
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These are experiences, you will never forget. But here in the region its much more colder as in the rest of Germany. Trust me, its Bavarian Siberia. 🙂
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I’ve spent time in Munich and Augsburg, it’s very beautiful there, I lived in the Moselle Valley.
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I agree, these cities are really beautiful, and Moselle Valley too.
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Yes, they are truly are!
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:-))
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I can smell each word! Lovely
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Thxnk you Lynz
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Most welcome
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