*** A KISS ***

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I placed a KISS in both my palms
And closed my fists tight
Then stepped outside and
Opened my hands to the wind
As it took flight toward a sky of blue
I prayed that one day you'll lift
Your face and that KISS 
Will find its way to you.

****
Copyright (c) 1994
Unicorn Anthology
L. Mitchell

SHAKESPEARE...

                                    ***
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

- William Shakespeare

DAD'S ROOM

DAD'S ROOM

Foreboding, heavy
footsteps, one
bulb dingy white.
Then the darkness,
the pungent
stagnant room.
On the closet door
a jacket, old
shoes, the gloom.

A Vicks jar,
aspirin, curtains
drawn apart.
Sealed, sick smell
that lingers on
My anchored heart.


by Lora Mitchell


Copyright (c) 1980
New Life Publishers

EMERSON quote...

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

.....THE TRACKS WE LEAVE...

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.

- Native American Proverb