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Eclipsed |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA 
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Eclipsed Harvest moon shine bright tonight; illuminate this tattered path and lend your tawny glow to highlight letters etched in stone these calloused fingers have traced a hundred times. Ginger moon I’ve felt the chill of too soon fall’s emergence and have seen morning’s frost lace its path across scored marble. The leaves are turning; yet, in my heart, winter has arrived. Tell me, how can it be that he and I sat beneath your golden orb just months ago when we were young and, oh, so full of life? Tonight, I’ll go to him, lay tired body next to his and sleep safe, sleep deep, curled tight on that familiar mound of dirt. Oh harvest moon be kind tonight, guide my weary steps, and light this shadowed life …eclipsed the day he died. I am nothing special...and my name will soon be forgotten,but I've loved another with all my heart and soul,and to me,this has always been enough.~N.S [This message has been edited by hoot_owl_rn (08-09-2006 10:25 AM).] |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
oh, what a beautifully written heartache poignant passionate poetry |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
Tonight, I’ll go to him, lay tired body next to his and sleep safe, sleep deep, curled tight on that familiar mound of dirt. I understand this profound a love... where death is but a door closed to one for a while. Beautiful, poignant write! |
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seraphin Senior Member
since 2000-09-24
Posts 1004Michigan |
oh my...i walked those very steps such a short while ago. and how empty arms do ache when placed about marble. you've made what i thought was finally quelled, roil painfully once again. this is so very lovely. this is so very true. i pray you find some solace, i pray i do, too sandra |
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Elizabeth Santos Member Rara Avis
since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269Pennsylvania |
This poem should be at the top. It is top notch writing, for sure. I hope many get read it. Bravo, Ruth, for this splendid piece Love Liz |
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luminosity Senior Member
since 2005-11-18
Posts 813 |
grief....you have carved it beautifully out of the stone of sadness...it will and can never be other than sad, but oh to make it read as beautiful as this |
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Interloper
since 2000-11-06
Posts 8369Deep in the heart |
Well done, indeed! Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart and write. |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
Thank you all for your kind comments  Ruth |
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Elizabeth Santos Member Rara Avis
since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269Pennsylvania |
Came back to read this one again to feed my soul with the splendor of words Liz |
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