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Gunslinger
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since 1999-10-09

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TX, USA

0 posted 2002-09-09 01:13 AM

Melancholy are the notes-
Of my heart's sad refrain...
"I must remain aloof, remote,
And never love again."

I tell myself that freedom is-
No strings attached, nor bonds.
Yet somehow I can't help but search,
My quest goes on and on.

Love? a many splendored thing?
I guess perhaps it is...
Yet please don't tell me it won't work,
For ignorance is bliss.

A dreamer? Aye, I am at that-
But life, devoid of dreams...
Drags on, a sullen, leaden stream,
Forever, so it seems.

So let me search, and let me dream-
So long as I have breath...
Perhaps the shades will grant me peace,
When my eyes close in death.

© Copyright 2002 John R. Yaws - All Rights Reserved

Larry C

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since 2001-09-10

Posts 10286
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1 posted 2002-09-09 01:44 AM

Gunslinger,
Sorry to have ignored you for so long. But I continue to appreciate your poetry. Well done, as always.

(that's the closest we have here to a cowboy!)

If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again.

chitsank
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Posts 88

2 posted 2002-09-09 01:49 AM

a beautiful poem. enjoyed reading.

passing shadows
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3 posted 2002-09-09 02:42 PM

John, you kinda got my way of seeing stuff...well written here.

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Member Patricius

since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

4 posted 2002-09-09 03:07 PM

Dear Gunslinger - don't give up on love!! One never knows what to-morrow might bring. Enjoyed this. Chris

Life is not measured by breaths you take, but by moments that take your breath away.

J. K. Mitchell
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since 2002-01-12

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5 posted 2002-09-09 03:41 PM

This is beautiful and really good.

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

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Canada eh.

6 posted 2002-09-09 03:46 PM

Excellent write...
and you know...someone could be waiting
just around the corner.
~Hugs~

~ Time has cast a spell on you
So you won't ever forget me ~

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