I Wish You Could Have Known This Day by Leslie Noyes
I wish you could have known this day, green life yearning up through the earth, bright warmth bearing
Down from the sky. The warning screech of a protective mother guarding her threatened nest
Upstaging a chorus of cicadas running through their limited range of vocal exercises. A pair of
Cardinals flirting outrageously, too caught up in their dance to worry about me. How I wish you were here.
We talk about how much you’d have loved this place. I can picture you scolding the squirrels, even as
You throw tidbits of your breakfast to them. You’d have sat on the porch, smoking and chatting up the
Neighbors. You remembered first names.
Praying for Eyebrowz 
These are such lovely Leslie. I loved this xxxxxxxx
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Thank you. My dad was the best.
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I thought it was about him cos it went along the kind of lines I would have written a poem about mine!!!
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😍
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You brought tears to my eyes and a smile to my lips. Thank you!
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Oh! That’s the best compliment one of my posts has ever gotten! Thank you!
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You have a beautiful way with words.
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Awww! Thank you!!!
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Absolutely lovely!
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Thank you so much!!!
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You are very welcome. I really, really, really loved it.
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☺️
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What a lovely tribute to your dad. These are somewhat like memories, but assumed memories. He must have been a great man.
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He was indeed! I always knew how much he loved me.
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I’m so moved, what a wonderful tribute
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Oh thank you!
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A beautiful, understated, paean, Leslie
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Thank you so much!
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