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Fingerprints

March 2, 2016
By dogsrule1271 SILVER, Nerstrand, Minnesota
dogsrule1271 SILVER, Nerstrand, Minnesota
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Favorite Quote:
To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must write dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfume and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish for you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories&mdash;science fiction or otherwise. Which means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.&rdquo;<br /> &ndash;Ray Bradbury


Independant, brave, strong
The only way to portray her
Nothing, no one can bring her down

Gentle, caring,  loving
From the first stitched cap on an infant's head
to the last batch of chocolate cookies

Her smile warms the coldest of hearts
touching everyone and everything
giving love without a second thought

Glimpses of her past are woven
into strands of joy intertwined with heartache
spoken of her husband long past

She unravels acclaimed tales
to her adoring grandchildren
all hypnotized by every word

Never asking, always giving
except for the occasional jigsaw
around the holiday season

She travels through villages, cities
then bringing it back for me                      
to create my own fingerprints on the world


The author's comments:

This is dedicated to my Granny. She has sshaped who I am and who I want to be.


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