Whispering to My Pen - A Villanelle

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Open Poetry #30

Whispering to My Pen - A Villanelle

Elizabeth Santos
Member Rara Avis

since 1999-11-08

Posts 9269
Pennsylvania

0 posted 2003-11-30 11:33 AM

Whispering to My Pen

No pondered thought, no dream was I remembering
Awakened from a slumber in the midnight hour
While whispering to my pen its sweetest rendering

So long had silence been the quill’s sole offering
I cannot say what has conceived this verbal power
No pondered though, no dream was I remembering

To voice nor vision was my heart surrendering
But only to the moment’s bloom upon a bower
While whispering to my pen its sweetest rendering

The fragile powdered phrases softly opening
As though unfolding petals of a winter flower
No pondered thought, no dream was I remembering

It came to me upon a fragile angel wing
As though I stood in heights of an aesthetic tower
While whispering to my pen its sweetest rendering

In this beguiling moment, silent and serene
A gift was placed into my hand by The Endower
No pondered thought, no dream was I remembering
While whispering to my pen its sweetest rendering

Elizabeth Santos
November 30, 2003

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

1 posted 2003-11-30 12:02 PM

Oh dear Elizabeth..this is SO lovely.
A keeper for my library for sure!
~Smiles & Hugs, Nancy~

~ To love and be loved
is to feel the sun from both sides ~

SharaRose
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since 2003-07-19

Posts 2501
Somewhere out there~

2 posted 2003-11-30 12:05 PM

*Sigh* Lovely!
Love,
Terri~

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

3 posted 2003-11-30 12:25 PM

Elizabeth,
A Villanelle is difficult to write
This is ecxellent.

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

4 posted 2003-11-30 12:26 PM

you're a better writer than me...I could not write one of these to save my life...

vandana

Member Patricius

since 1999-10-22

Posts 10463
USA

5 posted 2003-11-30 12:48 PM

very nice

Dr.Moose1
Member Elite

since 1999-09-05

Posts 3448
Bewilderment , USA

6 posted 2003-12-01 05:48 PM

Elizabeth,
A sweet rendering indeed.
Doc

Titia Geertman
Member Ascendant

since 2001-05-07

Posts 5182
Netherlands

7 posted 2003-12-01 06:34 PM

Ahhh, so nice to see you again Liz, enjoyed your poem very much, but then....how could I not!

Titia

Like scattered leaves...my words will flow

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