<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=361576" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Vase Built With Love</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Melvina Germain<br>Who suggested I write something about a simple vase.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A vase stood on the mantle piece <br>and two red roses within it stood <br>one for each heart for whom the vase belonged. <br>A century before on a potter’s wheel <br>the vase was carefully crafted by two loving hands <br>then fired in an oven to keep the love within. <br>It was then decorated with the same loving care. <br>The images on it told a story <br>of two lovers parted by a war. <br>It told how they had met down a leafy lane <br>and how their love had grown. <br>Then came the thunder of an approaching war. <br>It recorded their last kiss together <br>before the war tore them apart. <br>It also told of the years of agony <br>of waiting for his return, <br>then of the joys of reuniting, <br>and how after so long <br>their love began again to burn. <br>All this lovingly painted <br>so everyone could learn <br>that love never diminishes <br>even when separated by a war.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">18 October 2008</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Harris">David Harris</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=361576" data-title="A Vase Built With Love de David Harris" data-description="For Melvina Germain Who suggested I write something about a simple vase. A vase stood on the mantle piece and two red roses within it stood one for each heart for whom the vase belonged. A century before on a potter’s wheel the vase was car..."></div> </div> </div>

solid border dashed border dotted border double border groove border ridge border inset border outset border no border blue green red purple cyan gold silver black