Happy Birthday To My Smiling Celestial Star
Bottom right photo, just 2 weeks before Carole passed, still smiling for everyone, despite her failing health and pain, extraordinarily inspirational lady, for all those who were fortunate enough to know her.
Everlasting Smile
My eyes, narrowly cracked.
My cheeks, slightly etched.
I rest here, retracing every mile.
Remembering, your everlasting smile.
My lips, already dry.
My tongue, trying to say goodbye.
I wonder, was it all worthwhile.
Remembering, your loneliest smile.
My throat, lumpy and sore.
My chest, heavy as never before.
I look back, recalling your life-style.
Remembering, your younger smile.
My lungs, empty and tight.
My legs, weak and light.
I relive, your personal exile.
Remembering, your generous smile.
My head, spinning from fright.
My heart, deep and out of sight.
I sleep alone, crying like a child.
Remembering, your everlasting smile.
Ivor Steven (c) 2018
❤️❤️
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The love is clear to see in the photos, and in your words.
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No matter what happens in life, love is the essence of humanity
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The love is palpable, Ivor.
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Thank you Robert ❤️
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This is a beautiful dedication
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Thank you ❤️ Kayla, she’s a beautiful soul xx
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Happy Birthday Carole! And to you Ivor, my love and understanding. Carole will always be with you dear friend, she lives on in your beautiful poetry. ☺💛
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Thank you Dear Walt, she loved parties so I’m taking her memories out to lunch with me, and like me, she always loved a chat. 😁
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This is heart aching and warms my heart at the same time….you have set my mood in such high and low of a tide….
“My tongue, trying to say goodbye.
I wonder, was it all worthwhile.”
This captured me and now I am in thoughtful loop… Such a fine line…such a beautiful poem….
Thank you for sharing this Ivor!
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Thank you Shefali, your kind and thoughtful words mean a lot to me, and its a fav poem of mine,…… It’s the poem my old Headmaster friend recited to me over the phone, his eloquent recital completely broke me up….. oh maybe I’ll attach the story, and then you’ll understand.
https://ivors20.wordpress.com/2017/09/25/the-headmaster/
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To know the background, your feelings attached to this poem makes reading this poem thrice a worthwhile experience….
Thank you for putting a smile on my face.
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Always my pleasure ☺️
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Heartrending poem and such loving photographs
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Thank you Derrick, her smile was infectious.
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Sometimes a smile is all that’s left
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And then that’s sufficient
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Ah it’s painfully beautiful!
Happy birthday to Carole xx
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Aptly said Soiba, she was truly a beautiful person, but painful to see her suffer so …..
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A special poem for a special lady on her special day. For Carole 💐 Happy Birthday.
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A special thank you to you Sue xx
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What a beautiful lady and tribute to her. Happy Birthday Carole ! Magnificent smile!
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Thank You Stella, that gorgeous smile gave me my strength, for all of those 30 years of caring for my gracious and courageous lady xx
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Amazing. A marriage that lasts is such a beautiful thing! 🙂 it would have been 22 for us. Btw… it was my pleasure!:)
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We had 7 magnificent years before her MS started, but I wouldn’t take any of the 37 years back, she smile at me every morning through it all…xx
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So beautiful! Thank you for sharing!:)
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Happy Birthday to your dear beautiful Carole. What joy is on both of your faces throughout your lifetime of pictures. And surely, in your heart as well.
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There was always joy, we tried to make the best of every day. 😊
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THAT is a wonderful way to live.
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Yes we chose the positive attitude to our situation.
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Oh Ivor the most full of love birthday wishes .Im sure she heard them❤️❤️❤️
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Yes she’s heard all the birthday wishes, she loved to party 🎉 😊
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A heartfelt;t tribute, Ivor.
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Thank you ❤️ Raili
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🙂
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She certainly was a lovely smiley lady Ivor!
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Thank you Peter, her smile gave me strength. 😆
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Heartfelt beautiful words for your beautiful Carol!
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Thank you ❤️ Linda
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Its a special connection that we have with certain people those memories that can last a life time,Beautiful my friend
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Thank you Sheldon, yep, she’s specially special….
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Beautiful
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Thank you mate, she was a very special lady….
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Made me tear up. Your love for her is so beautiful.
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Aaaw, thank you, I’ve always plenty of tissues here, I cried all the way through when I wrote this one, so it’s a true tear jerker. !!
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It’s a beautiful ode to TRUE love. If more loved as you have, this world would be better.
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Thank you Candice, your kind words touch my heart. xx
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You have a beautiful heart my friend 💓
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she’s gorgeous and such a genuine smile from the heart. love like this happens only once in a lifetime, so blessed that you experienced it with a true beauty.
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Her beauty was in her smile, and her smile represented her amazing personality and strength of her gracious qualities under extreme adversity.
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This was so beautiful and filled with amazing emotion! Absolutely incredible!!!
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Beautiful. I think you’ll see her again, someday and she’ll be so happy to see you. A beautiful lady and very courageous indeed.
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