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lorilockheart
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0 posted 2000-05-08 06:48 PM


Seven Years
Lori LockHeart

Seven Years.
An entire war was fought.
Bad luck has lived and died.
Fashion has evolved, music has been rewritten,
And many tears have been cried.

Seven Years.
The birth of your beautiful daughter,
The closure of the union with her mother,
And the tragic, sudden death of your brother,
And my friend.

Seven Years.
A new start.
Look at all that has changed.
Yet it’s still the same in my heart.

Seven Years.
Long enough for so much.
Yet not long enough.
I still need your loving touch.

Seven Years.
No words spoken at all.
Now tragedy has brought me back to you,
And just like the undertow of the Gulf, where our love grew,
I am again drowning in your eyes of blue.

Seven Years.
Not even one little glimpse of you.
Now here we are standing in the rain,
And I believe that all of these feelings are true.
I guess some things never change.

I’m still in love with you, blue eyes.




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I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean. Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens. Promise me you'll give faith a fighting chance. And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance - I hope you dance.
song by LeeAnn Womack
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Lone Wolf
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since 2000-03-16
Posts 5842
Lansing, MI USA
1 posted 2000-05-08 07:55 PM


Lori,
Powerful writing!!  This is so sentimental and full of memories.  Amazing how much so many things can change, but others stay exactly the same, isn't it?  Excellent poem.  I enjoyed it very much!!!  
LW  


 Friends are friend forever if the Lord's the Lord of them and a friend will not say never cause the welcome will not end.
--Michael W. Smith

Aimster
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since 2000-02-19
Posts 4297
Charlotte, NC
2 posted 2000-05-08 08:06 PM


Lori--

Girrrrl you left me in deep pondering over this one for quite some time. Thank you, I love it when a poem does that to me. This was written with beautiful expressions from your heart. I am really enjoying your work..keep 'em coming  

take care,
amy

 ~Live today as though it were your last but prepare for tomorrow as though it were here~

Janet Marie
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since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554

3 posted 2000-05-08 08:32 PM


Lori,
this is a very COOL poem...I love this one.
the seven year theme is very cool and the emotions and events time-lined is very creative.
All my sevens were more like the seven year itch LOL
all though it does sound like this guys under your skin...
good luck...
excellent writing here,
take care, jm


 It's amazing
How you make your face just like a wall
How you take your heart and turn it off
How I turn my head and you lose it all ...
And it's unnerving
How one move just puts me by myself
There you go just trusting someone else
Now I know I put us both through hell ...
I'm not sayin
That there was nothing wrong
I just didn't think you'd ever get tired of me
And I'm not sayin
We ever had the right to hold on
I just didn't wanna let you get away from me.
~MB20~Leave



Sven
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East Lansing, MI USA
4 posted 2000-05-08 10:55 PM


Excellent Lori, you have really done it with this one!!

It's interesting how that one person can always affect us, even after a very long time. . . I can feel that here. . .

Wonderful my friend. . .

-------------------------------------------------------------



 That which gives light must endure burning
--Victor Frankl


Kellsue
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since 2000-05-06
Posts 210
Waukesha, WI USA
5 posted 2000-05-09 07:59 PM


Very nice poem...straight from the heart. A love that lingers.  

~Kellsue




 Reflect upon your present blessings-of which every man has many-not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. ~Charles Dickens

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. ~Winston Churchill


Rosemary J. Gwaltney
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since 1999-08-26
Posts 997
northern mountains, Idaho
6 posted 2000-05-09 08:25 PM


This is haunting and very touching.  The poignancy of meeting a long lost lover, and finding that you are still in love with him affects me very deeply.  Excellent poem.

Butterflies_dont_cry
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since 2000-03-06
Posts 3733
Michigan
7 posted 2000-05-09 09:34 PM


Lori* this was wonderful, the way that you showed all the changes in life yet the heart and love don't age do they, at least not when it's soooooooo right. Thank you for sharing this.

 Hold me for yesterday
Kiss me for tomorrow
But love me for today.


Marge Tindal
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8 posted 2000-05-10 06:12 AM


Lori~
Love it !
When the eyes
can still mesmerize ...
time has a way of standing still.

Beautifully stated ...
bet he felt it too.
~*Marge*~


 ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
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Kit McCallum
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since 2000-04-30
Posts 14774
Ontario, Canada
9 posted 2000-05-10 06:17 AM


This is wonderful Lori ... you've captured the renewal of long lost love beautifully with your words.  Sometimes it does come back stronger the second time around. Lovely poem!

Best wishes,
/Kit

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