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Windhover
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0 posted 2009-03-22 06:29 PM





On wintering nights of bitter frost
when all the warmth of life is lost;
as spectral mist swirls in the air...
I think of you with the fragrant hair.


When wind is moaning in the pines
and icy fingers touch the spine,
as strangled autumn slowly dies...
I think of you with the laughing eyes.


When darkened clouds, foreboding doom,
fly swift, before a leprous moon;
as hoarfrost from the blackthorn drips...
I think of you with the soft, sweet lips.


When hail, its palsied fingers train
and scrabble on the windowpane;
as gables whimper under tile...
I think of you with the gentle smile.


When, on such bleak and bitter nights,
primeval fear lurks out of sight,
and frightened thoughts, dark tendrils trace...
I think of you with the radiant face.


No earth-bound force can misalign
the shuttered refuge of my mind.
Encompassed in that secret place...
My soft, sweet thoughts of you.


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1 posted 2009-03-22 06:32 PM


"When wind is moaning in the pines
and icy fingers touch the spine,
as strangled autumn slowly dies...
I think of you with the laughing eyes. "



lovely

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2 posted 2009-03-22 07:55 PM


I'd have to highlight the entire piece to pick a favorite. But this definitely got me:
"as spectral mist swirls in the air..."
Anything with 'spectral mists' and romantic overtones as opposed to ghosts is fine with me!

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3 posted 2009-03-22 08:26 PM


One word: Beautiful. Really. I love that the person is held up as some sort of amulet against all despair; Cupid's most common request, perhaps.

Thanks for sharing.

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