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A Gypsy Prediction

A gypsy prediction You ride the windFrom star to starInYour own universeNever see where you are goingNever knowing ConstancyLeaving friends and loveBehindAs you inwardly fly Into depths. of self you go Smiling Never to know All journeys end one day Alone you will be When you lose your way   
— Geremia, Dec 28, 2008

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Rett

Rett

17 years 5 months ago

I love how this one sounds

when read aloud and I also like the message presented.4/5 Respectfully, Rett: "It’s impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside." Purplemoondoll
Nordic cloud

Nordic cloud

17 years 2 months ago

Gypsy predictions

My mother was told that she would be murdered, so she never dared own a TV while she lived alone in a house on a hill. She died in hospital at 91 yrs. I was told by a gypsy, as me and my husband (divorced) got out of a car in St Emillion: "You will never have any children." I never did? I, unlike my mother never thought about this saying but she took it seriously, that was rotten I think. She had a good sense of humour though and could behave calmly in a crisis. A man climbed in through her bedroom window(1st floor), in the night and put a sheet over his head coming to my mother in the other room where she sat writing letters with her back to him, he demanded money, she laughed and said "Jeannie,(my sister) you know that I don't keep money in the house", she then walked towards him and went to the kitchen to get the rolling pin; meanwhile the man climbed out taking five pounds from my mother's handbag with him. To this day I don't know if it was willingly she made this 'ghost' into my sister in order to lessen her fear or.......? Yet another time she had come home from a holiday leaving the car boot open in the drive she went indoors, a man came in saying that he needed to use the phone as his car had broken down, she waved him into the sitting room, the next thing she knew, he having taken a while, was the man standing exactly behind her, she turned round revealing her one item of value, her black opal brooch from my father, thinking he would ask for that she said "would you like a cup of tea" he seemed taken aback and said "yes please". While they sipped tea his comrade took her suitcase from the boot of the car. It was found several days later thrown over a hedge nearby, she lost nothing of value. Their house was rather remote. There were two other robberies there, but one not while they were home. The one where the robber just walked in and took my father's camera and its tripod, trained for photographing the great tits young, while my parents were out in the garden, easily in view. The poem!!! Yes we are alone and it is a sweet melancholy. Anna dalla Norvegia
Geremia

Geremia

17 years 2 months ago

So iinteresting and fascinatiing are your stories, Anna

J.B. Longo-Geremia My maternal grandfather born in Italy in 1867 --the LONGObard-- wore golden earrings handed down from generation to generation for 200 years [ gypsy side as well]. When he came to America he put them on my mother when she was three. She never took them off until she was about 40-- put them in a jewel box.House was robbed some months later and jewel box gone.... Il longobardino :)
Geremia

Geremia

17 years 2 months ago

Soy de una familia de duendes......

J.B. Longo-Geremia Llevo un solo arete de oro en honor de mi abuelo-duende : pasión fuerte bien controlada embruja el alma fuego interno que hierve el sangre materno ¡GITANO!