Tattoo findings....

Dear Doo,

"The ivy leaf portrayed by prehistoric potters of long-forgotten cultures evolved into the red playing-card heart. This botanic symbol found in ancient Greek and Roman art - primarily in vase painting - represented both physical and, above all, eternal love, withstanding death."

On Grecian stelae and later on Roman gravestones and early Christian graves in catacombes, the ivy leaf symbolizes eternal love, i.e. love beyond the grave.

"Mans life is like a drop of dew on a leaf."---Socrates

"Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him."---Henry Ward

3:49 PM - 3/8/2008 - post comment

A thief did pillage my familiar.

Vagabond thoughts since unbend here.

The muse's wistful eye may extract a glimpse,

Or elect to veil aforesaid ponders. 

Continuation of flame, blind to your concrete absence,

Vital to sentiments it be not. 

Manifested in words your rooted essence do I collide.--Loretta