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a 'Touch Stone' am I
ere so you say
a most beloved compliment
I just only realized
this very day
slow am I
verily perhaps
a touch stone for you
I very well may be
but a great glorious rock
for me you have become
holding up my world
as you unknowingly do
with your tireless granite edges
and might
Atlas could not slip you from your
perch
too needed is your sturdy worth
in the harnessed light
a touch stone indeed
I am thus
but a rock is far superior to
any ole stone
touch variety or otherwise
please never forget that
when you think about us.............
(Sept. 30, 2011 943am)

Author's Notes/Comments: 

someone told me the other day in passing that I was a touch stone for them. I knew they meant it as some sort of compliment but didn't really think all that deeply about it not until a little while ago when I looked the word up and when I read the first definition of a test or criterion for the qualities of a thing I knew for certain then they meant it as a very high compliment indeed and I never doubted their sincerity. Nice......... this poem was born of those thoughts....

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last updated 1 October 2011 - 3:38am
©30 September 2011 - 1:48pm — palewingedpoetess
30 September 2011 - 4:05pm — emmenay
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This one is really good

This poem is really good as it explains your viewpoint lucidly and precisely. There is no unnecessary exaggeration. Kudos.

Muhammad Naveed Ahmed.

Pen name:Emmenay.

Yahoo email ID:Ambitious7

Initials: M.N. Ahmed.

5 July 2014 - 10:23pm — palewingedpoetess
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Why thank you for gracing me with your kind comments.....

When you do this, you just make me look good in the eyes of the PP community winks. Sorry, I never responded to this comment before. I am correcting these over sights now by going back and replying to any comments made on my poetry. Even if many are 2 plus years late. Sincerely, your fan, Melissa