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[catid] => 1
[aid] => mick
[title] => The Lone Oak
[time] => 2011-05-07 21:06:39
[hometext] => Happy Mothers' Day to All from Afghanistan!
[bodytext] => The love of thy mother leaves never for want As a lone oak that stands in life’s great meadow Grown from the earth, this mother, life’s font Stands before her children to her love bestow’d ~*~ What gaze of thy mother’s loving eyes hold Hers, the dreams spun and made of her flesh To have, and hold, to imbue with love untold For on all days, their first breath and thresh ~*~ This oak grants her children shelter and shade From a precarious life’s unending gale and frost She is to where we run when all has been mislaid A cairn to which we all look, when we are lost ~*~ None such as the charity of life she brings to her own Than to inherit her tireless love which she has sown [comments] => 3 [counter] => 234 [topic] => 26 [informant] => navydocny [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => MothersDayPoems )
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