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Red Letter
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since 1999-05-24
Posts 85
Allentown, PA

0 posted 1999-07-24 02:00 PM


Upon Writing Love Down

Can it be contained
within the trappings of a limited tongue?
the tingling taste of blushing pink
littered on lips bruised in passion's wake
the gloss of sweated nectarines
settled onto bodies after the summer of drama's ebullience?

Can it be concealed
within the restrictions of a language?
the fullness of exchanged breath
the embodiment of gravity's pull
the fever of a furious pulse
rising in orchestration
with earth's melodious undertow?

Can it be restrained
within the press of pencil on parchment?
the saturation of lonliness
the urgencies of seperation
the desire for a single touch
when the miles stretch longingly across valleys of want?

Can one circumscribe the boundlessness of love
within the curve of the j
within the seduction of the s
within the fullness of the o
or the tongue of the q
within the encasements of a written word?
or shall every letter fail miserably without you?

© Copyright 1999 Red Letter - All Rights Reserved
JP
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since 1999-05-25
Posts 1343
Loomis, CA
1 posted 1999-07-27 05:22 PM


Gotta tell ya... liked it, loved it, want more of it.

Very few have been able to use ebullience in a poem and had it work for them.

Hazzah! Hazzah!

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Dum spiro, spero
JP



Red Letter
Member
since 1999-05-24
Posts 85
Allentown, PA
2 posted 1999-07-27 08:06 PM


yeah, that darn word... If you think I've used it successfully (in other unmentionable websites, bernard didn't think so but oh well) -- then I consider myself in pretty excellent company... *wink*

thanks for the comment...

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