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John Foulstone
Member

since 2000-01-01

Posts 100
Australia

0 posted 2000-01-05 10:26 AM

Monet arrived this morning. Here, it's overcast, and feels
like it might rain; the surface of the water shiny grey, just
like your Monet. "Soleil Levant". I don't know French, but
think it might mean sunrise. I hold the card in joy and wonder,
imagining you writing it: one hand, perhaps with thumb
and forefinger held it steady, while the other, moving,
wrote your words. Austrailia again. I smile, and kiss the
stamps you licked nine days ago. No taste of you remains;
some dusty mailbag holds that hint of you. Still, now our
hands have touched, our lips have kissed, via your paper
go-between. Consider this a poem in prose. I love you.

John Foulstone
Member

since 2000-01-01

Posts 100
Australia

1 posted 2000-01-05 10:31 AM

OK, put the pens away. The Tucson lady tells me that a real flesh and blood girl can't live on poems and sweet words alone. So I applied for my passport yesterday. Wish me luck!

warmhrt
Senior Member

since 1999-12-18

Posts 1563

2 posted 2000-01-05 11:03 AM

John,
Oh, how very romantic...sweet and tender! I wish you and the Tucson woman all the happiness you could ever find. From what I've read here, she is a very lucky woman.

All the best, John, stay safe, and deliver yourself to her with all of your feelings written across your face and in your first embrace.

warmhrt

jenni
Member

since 1999-09-11

Posts 478
Washington D.C.

3 posted 2000-01-05 03:35 PM

such exciting news! best wishes for you, john.

here's a little something for ya, lol:

"Qantas"

A garden in the desert gleams
Beneath a sky of blue;
The poet hastens to his dream
On wind-borne kangaroo.

Ted Reynolds
Member

since 1999-12-15

Posts 331

4 posted 2000-01-05 04:24 PM

How lovely to realize that life and love continue off the page as well as on it. It seems that your travelling wings will be upheld and sped by the rising hopes and wishes of many fellow poets. Do add mine to them.

roxane
Senior Member

since 1999-09-02

Posts 505
us

5 posted 2000-01-05 06:08 PM

if i was written this poem, i think i could survive on sweet words alone. can't blame her for wanting to see you though. this is great, i don't even think it's too "proseish" for here. good luck.

Renee
Junior Member

since 1999-11-07

Posts 18
langhorne, PA 19047

6 posted 2000-01-05 08:18 PM

Beautiful. I like the way you make something so simple turn into something with meaning. Whoever this was written for is lucky to have someone such as yourself.

Linda Renee

J.L. Humphres
Member

since 2000-01-03

Posts 201
Alabama

7 posted 2000-01-07 03:35 PM

John,
Even though I haven't been in the forum very long, I feel the need to offer my congrats and best wishes to you and your lady. Good luck and much happiness.

J.L.H.

We all go a little mad sometimes...
--Alfred Hitchcock

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