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From: jdt@sdchema.UUCP (Jeff Thayer)
Newsgroups: net.poems
Subject: Roxanne's Song
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Date: Tue, 24-Jan-84 13:14:11 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 24 13:14:11 1984
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This is dedicated to my mother on her Birthday.
 

			  
		         Roxanne's Song
	      
             Midwinter freeze, stark icy glare.
	     Chilled Earth slows, another grey dawn.
	     Somehow a spark, some stop and stare.
	     Magic seed stirs and sprouts, winter's gone!

	     Little girl laughs and plays in the Sun.
	     Lovingly keeping her dolls on a shelf.
	     'Till one day she whirls and looks in the mirror.
	     Bewildered she sees a new game's begun.
             A blink and the little girl fast disappears.
	     Replaced by four children's laughter and tears.
	     A mother herself, filled with questions and fears.
	     Do Answers arrive along with the years?

                                    Jeff Thayer
				    San Diego
				    1-18-84