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8/7/2012

Fleeting Moments of Joy

It looks as a quilt, patches of thick, coarse cloth pieced together to provide protection. One leaf. Enormous. Alone. I think of a knight, standing proudly, waiting for the princess of his dreams to appear.

I stop daily, hoping for a happy ending.

One morning, I am greeted by her shy face of pearly white, her skin delicate, her demeanor frail. She beams in the arms of her faithful knight.

When I return to visit the royal couple, so distinguished in this kingdom of drab brown and earthen gray, she is gone. Her knight, dressed in patchy armor, remains.

Alone.

Excerpt from:
Tiny Treasures: Discoveries Made Along the Lake Michigan Coast
(Available on this website.)
Copyright 2010 by Mary M. Schmidt

6 Comments

Mary Ellen Miller

8/8/2012 03:02:12 am

I'm trying out ALL the stuff on your website - very cool!

Jane McKinney

2/5/2013 04:03:14 am

Mary, you are a truly gifted writer!
How proud I am of you. How I love
reading what you write. How happy
I am to have finally taken time to sit
at the computer & read all you write!

Jane McKinney

2/5/2013 05:32:07 am

Mary--You are as gifted a photographer as you are
writer! Forgive me for not saying that in the first note
I wrote. Your flowers are just overwhelming in their
color & life-likeness. ALL your pictures fit so well with
the copy -- & of course, I particularly enjoy seeing my
husband & daughter together, & my Lady in a place of
honor.

JMCK

2/5/2013 05:35:30 am

The pictures of you & Rubin are wonderful!
You look like you belong together!

Karen

4/28/2014 03:06:07 am

Just when I thought Mayapples couldn't be any more exciting...

Karen

4/28/2014 03:09:01 am

Oh wait--bloodroot, not mayapple. Wow, makes the story even more exciting!

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