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Tag: inheritance
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Tag: inheritance

Legacy for a Daughter and Hers
. Philosophical / Free Verse / Love

Legacy for a Daughter and Hers

I cannot leave you a house–it wouldn’t be your home. But I can bequeath you apples crisp against bright sky, cinnamon, lavish and antique, beckoning with scent to far-off isles. …

 dream / inheritance / legacy / Susanne Donoghue
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Banking on the Future
. Contemplative / Metrical / Nature / Rhyme

Banking on the Future

Here in this bank the future lies asleep, signed sealed and stored, as generations pass. Their embryonic secrets they will keep, from mighty tree to simple blade of grass. Until …

 inheritance / Patricia Curtis / preservation / seeds
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For You to Own
. Romantic / Free Verse / Love

For You to Own

I am adrift in an ocean of silence, sinking beneath each breath whispered over the curvilinear space she fills, leaving my mind vacant of all else and my heart counting …

 dream / gift / harmony / inheritance / Mark Terry / silence
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