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Huan Yi
Member Ascendant

since 2004-10-12

Posts 6688
Waukegan

0 posted 2007-02-02 10:39 AM

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From an air
That somehow passes through
Somewhere between the window
And its wooden sill
A single candle flickers

A log
Snaps and crackles
In the fireplace
Whose flames cast shadows
Like Plato’s models on the walls

There’s a fragrant smell
Of salmon from the stove
Green glassed bottles
Of chilled German wine

Ships pass each other
Throughout the night
Those somber murmurings
Of an autumn sea

Soon
We’ll have leave this all behind
Who as well
As where we were

Then let the end
Come and take us
Where it might

There’ll be nothing left
To keep us here

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Ratleader

Member Rara Avis

since 2003-01-23

Posts 7026
Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass

1 posted 2007-02-10 10:44 AM

I'm glad I found this...one could make dozens of visits to this site, without seeing a poem as solid as this one.

Makes me think that in addition to the naughtiness classifications the site's "nanny set" puts on the forums, there should be a way to classify individual poems as M -- for Mandatory, don't come around here without reading 'em!

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Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

2 posted 2007-02-10 11:25 AM

Thank you, Ed,
for bringing this to the fore.

And thank you John
for the leave of this.

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

3 posted 2007-02-10 11:30 AM

Wonderful wonderful write!
Very much enjoyed.

In the midst of winter,
I found there lives within me..
An invincible summer.

ThisDiamond
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-02-22

Posts 9353
Michigan, USA

4 posted 2007-02-10 01:23 PM

I found this warming. Great thoughts here John.

Huan Yi
Member Ascendant

since 2004-10-12

Posts 6688
Waukegan

5 posted 2007-02-10 01:28 PM

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Thank you for exhuming this.

Sometimes someone emerges
in a poem and nowhere else;
someone whom to even the one
through whose pen he came
is unfamiliar. The personality
in this poem is from a life that
did not actually happen yet
occasionally he will appear
though briefly complete with
comments and recollections.
I like him so I don’t get in his way
when he shows up.

Thanks again.

John

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Huan Yi
Member Ascendant

since 2004-10-12

Posts 6688
Waukegan

6 posted 2007-02-11 09:43 PM

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Summum Bonum

All the breath and the bloom of the year
In the bag of one bee:
All the wonder and wealth of the mine
In the heart of one gem:

In the core of one pearl
All the shade and the shine of the sea:

Breath and bloom,
Shade and shine,
Wonder, wealth,
And how far above them
Truth, that’s brighter than gem,
Trust, that purer than pearl,

Brightest truth,
Purest trust in the universe,

All were for me
In the kiss of one girl.

Robert Browning

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passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

7 posted 2007-02-11 11:52 PM

I'd be so lucky to find a place like this

maybe in time

beautiful piece of work

Roniece Dawson-Bruce
Member Ascendant

since 2000-01-29

Posts 5689
Sydney, Australia

8 posted 2007-02-12 03:23 AM

'sigh' wonderful John! I so love your work
RDB

Be kind at heart....for everyone you meet has their own battle to fight.........

steavenr
Member Elite

since 2003-11-17

Posts 4058

9 posted 2007-02-12 11:01 AM

every word, every phrase, every pause ia so fitly placed...this is the essence of poetry...that you read it over and over and see more and more...very well done...

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