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Reckless and Seventeen by Beth Elaine Wednesday, September 10, 2003 Share Print Save Become a Fan

You chafe each day-- You feel ensnared By high school walls And peevish peers. You pour the moments on the ground-- I weep to watch them splashing down. Take a taste Before you spill; Heart and mind And spirit fill. Time: mounded not Like sandy dunes But separate jeweled Peacock plumes Must be admired, Stroked, and worn Before from us, Time is torn. I cringe lest You wish away The fabric of Our family In premature Eternity.

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Reviewed by Leysa Lowery	9/10/2003

Don't we often say, if I only knew then, what I know now ... but then we would be stodgy, boring 17 year olds. Yet, when they are our children, we can't help but yearn for so much more for them. Lovely write.




Reviewed by La Belle Rouge (Reader)	9/10/2003

Ah I can still remember it! You capture it so well.




Reviewed by Vesna Perkovic	9/10/2003

..'I cringe lest You wish away the fabric of Our family In premature Eternity' Alas..only two days ago three young highschool girls from our town lost their lives in an accident..the agony of the parents has no end...there is no pain greater than losing a child... Insightful write..ty vesna