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    Default Cool poems

    Didn't write this, thought it was cool anyway.

    Time
    We never did take time until it was too late.

    It passed away

    Even while we lay on grass
    and every plan we made
    was an assumption it would wait.

    Heather Farmer

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    Default Slow dance: stop to smell the roses

    Sent in by Finchaser. I passed it along to a few people. They said the girl was dying of cancer and it was her last wish. I don't know if it was true or not, but if reading it moves you, feel free to C&P and send it to a few people.

    Life is short, stop and smell the roses






    Slow
    Dance



    This
    is a poem
    written by a teenager with cancer.



    She wants to
    see how many
    people get her poem.



    It is quite the poem
    Please pass it

    on.























    This

    poem was written by a terminally ill young girl in a
    New York

    Hospital.



    It was sent
    by

    a medical doctor -
    Make sure to read what is in the closing statement
    AFTER THE
    POEM.




    SLOW DANCE



    Have you ever
    watched
    kids



    On a merry-go-round?



    Or listened to
    the
    rain



    Slapping on the ground?



    Ever followed a

    butterfly's erratic flight?



    Or gazed at the sun into the
    fading
    night?



    You better slow down.



    Don't
    dance so
    fast.



    Time is short.



    The music
    won't
    last.



    Do you run through each day



    On
    the
    fly?


    When you ask How are you?



    Do you hear
    the
    reply?



    When the day is done



    Do you lie
    in your
    bed



    With the next hundred chores




    Running through
    your head?



    You'd better
    slow down



    Don't dance so
    fast.



    Time is
    short.



    The music won't
    last.



    Ever told your
    child,



    We'll do it
    tomorrow?



    And in your
    haste,



    Not see
    his

    sorrow?



    Ever lost
    touch,



    Let a good
    friendship die



    Cause you
    never had time



    To call
    and say,'Hi'



    You'd
    better slow down.



    Don't dance
    so fast.



    Time
    is short.



    The music won't
    last..



    When you run
    so fast to get somewhere



    You
    miss half the fun of getting
    there.



    When you worry and hurry
    through your
    day,



    It is like an unopened
    gift....



    Thrown
    away.



    Life is not a
    race.


    Do take it
    slower



    Hear the
    music



    Before the song is
    over.



    ------------
    --------




    Dear All:
    PLEASE pass this mail on to everyone you know -
    even to those you don't
    know! It is the request of a special girl who will soon
    leave this world
    due to cancer.

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    Default Re: Slow dance: stop to smell the roses

    I read the poem above...has been awhile....
    Still brought tears to my eyes.....

    If you run your life like a well-oiled machine....
    Stop and ask yourself if you have time to schedule some time to smell the roses, or to have a slow dance with the one you love.....

    Touching poem, that was, above...thanks Fin for sending....







    *********

    One for today.....

    IF.............




    If you can keep your head when all about you
    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

    If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
    But make allowance for their doubting, too,

    If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
    Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
    Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
    And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

    If you can dream - and not makes dreams your master,

    If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim
    ,
    If you can meet Triumph and Disaster
    And treat those two impostors just the same.



    Rudyard Kipling

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    Default Re: Slow dance: stop to smell the roses

    Quote Originally Posted by DarkSkies View Post
    If you can dream - and not makes dreams your master,

    If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim
    ,
    If you can meet Triumph and Disaster
    And treat those two impostors just the same.



    Rudyard Kipling

    I thought these words still ring true....Post Sandy...now more than ever.......

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