"Friendship
Each of us has a hidden place
Somewhere deep within ourselves;
A place where we go to get away,
To think things through,
To be alone, to be ourselves.
This unique place, where we confront our deepest feelings,
Becomes a storehouse of all our hopes,
All our needs, all our dreams,
And even our unspoken fears.
It encompasses the essence of who we are and what we want to be.
But now and then, whether by chance or design,
Someone discovers a way into that place we thought was ours alone.
And we allow that person to see, to feel and to share
All the reason, all the uncertainty
And all the emotion we've stored up there.
That person adds new perspective to our hidden realm,
Then quietly settles down in his own corner of our special place,
Where a bit of himself will stay forever.
And we call that person a friend."
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4 comments:
Good one, very intriguing, stumbled upon your blog spot through Kishor's. Give us more stuff
Thank you. I will update soon, busy with experiments. :)
Thank you so much for the credit; I wrote that poem in the late 1990s for a poetry contest sponsored by Blue Mountain Arts, and it won first place, which entitled Blue Mountain to one-time publication rights. They included it in a print anthology; afterwards, the rights were mine again, and the poem was included in two other books. Because I was paid each time it was published, I'm very disappointed whenever I see it reprinted online with no credits. Since these publishing companies 'own' a share of the poem, I appreciate it when sites like yours are kind enough to include the proper byline. Thanks again, and I'm glad you enjoyed the poem enough to use it on your page.
Carol Faivre-Scott
Hey Sorry Nada Talll..I am seeing your message only now ! It was so nice of you. Hope you did not mind me posting it.
I am kind of feeling bad to put it here without asking you. However I could not locate who the author was.
Thanks a lot. It is a great poem. It is indeed a pleasure to know you.
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