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RH 78 Sep 2015
Catch the twinkle in my eye?
Slip it in your purse.
It's the only star you'll need in this universe.

You have it to keep
Treat it well.
What the future brings no one can tell.

You've had it ten years now.
A boy of five and a girl of three.
The twinkle shining bright via two smaller versions of you and me!
human chemistry never fails to amaze. We live on through our children. You'll never know what happens if you catch the twinkle in someone's eye!

Edited last line to read "you and me!" After all.... My lovely wife also played the leading role in bringing my beautiful children into this world! :)
  Sep 2015 RH 78
Helen
Life kicked me
in the teeth
and gave me
a black eye
I grinned back
with a ****** smile
and winked
my good eye
  Sep 2015 RH 78
Dee Bach
In his greedy hands,
I’m just a doll,
Not a person.
With a beating heart.
With an imagination.
No, I’m just a piece of space,
I don’t have thoughts,
I don’t have feelings.
I’m just some toy,
Who would not care.
In his greedy hands,
I’m only an object,
An object not worth much.
  Sep 2015 RH 78
Emily Dickinson
1109

I fit for them—
I seek the Dark
Till I am thorough fit.
The labor is a sober one
With this sufficient sweet
That abstinence of mine produce
A purer food for them, if I succeed,
If not I had
The transport of the Aim—
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