a smile and a tear

viewing faded photographs

more smiles and more tears

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flipping the pages

boyhood days of my three sons

mem'ries awaken

just trampled upon
its life unappreciated
weeds have flowers too


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prolific year round 
yet unwanted and unloved
wild flowering weeds

halted by a leaf

ending its waltz with the wind

rose apple flower


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plucked in infancy
pinkish life it cannot have
a windblown flower