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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Deep Blue Sassafras / Will Dockery
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2025 05:29:59 +0000
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General-Zod wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:
>
>> General-Zod wrote:
>
>>> Will Dockery wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Deep Blue Sassafras
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You never left
>>>>>> as another day passes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Your love
>>>>>> my love
>>>>>> continues.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You sleep
>>>>>> or you wander,
>>>>>> depending on the chosen myth.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But those
>>>>>> deep blue flowers in a box
>>>>>> the color of your eyes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The deep blue flowers
>>>>>> I found blooming
>>>>>> in the lumber yard.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I brought them to you
>>>>>> that summer morning in 1982.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The flowers
>>>>>> that smelled like sassafras.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Like you,
>>>>>> never leave my thoughts
>>>>>> day in, day out.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Will Dockery
>
>>> good read
>
>> Thanks again for the positive feedback.
>
> Being the avid poetry lover that I am I rather enjoyed it..!

Thanks again for the nod, Zod.