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The Lady
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0 posted 2007-03-04 09:05 PM


(the final poem)

I know your face by touch when it’s dark
I know the profile of your sleeping face
the sound of you sleeping

  ~ Rod McKuen
         Stanyan Street & Other Sorrows

night tries to take you away
never  
I will know your face in the dark  
long after you leave  
I will wake  
to the smell of you  
move of you  
inches from me  
see your profile  
reach for your face  
hear you murmur  
   c’mere  
   fit right here  
   next to my heart

I will crawl into
your warm memory
tell you about the man
with flannel arms
man I love with my soul
man who drank coffee
from white bone china
with leftover roses
man who caught me
flying too close to folds of lavender time
I will tell you about him
because you will always be
the only one who understands

I will reach for your face
feel your gone tears
hear you whisper
  I know baby
  I miss that man too


© Copyright 2007 Kate - All Rights Reserved
passing shadows
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1 posted 2007-03-04 09:19 PM


the final poem????

no way!

The Lady
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2 posted 2007-03-04 09:24 PM



it's true Dixie
that's the way it ends
big hugs to you
I know you know this feeling

passing shadows
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3 posted 2007-03-04 09:36 PM


yes I understand

big hugs back

Sunshine
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4 posted 2007-03-04 10:08 PM



it's ok, I'm sure
if you feel
the salty tinge
in your heart...

from mine
to yours...

you are, in a word
remarkable.

May I be you
when I grow?


The Lady
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5 posted 2007-03-04 10:28 PM




oh I do feel the
the salty tinge
dear Sunshine
and I love you for it

you know how often I depended
on you
we are...
well you know



passing shadows
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6 posted 2007-03-04 11:14 PM


damn it
Roniece Dawson-Bruce
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7 posted 2007-03-05 05:49 AM


no, no, no, Lady Kate, it CANT BE THE FINAL POEM!!  (stamps up and down and causes a flow on effect!!)  Please Lady Kate we want more!!!  

RDB

Be kind at heart....for everyone you meet has their own battle to fight.........

MoonShadow
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8 posted 2007-03-05 09:02 PM


  The flow... the emotion... the impact... stunning.

              MoonShadow
.

The Lady
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9 posted 2007-03-05 09:33 PM



thank you my gentle Sir Moonshadow...

aziza
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10 posted 2007-03-06 02:14 AM


You left me with an aching heart - and caught up in the story and the sad beauty of you both.  I hurt from the sharing, but I would not trade a moment or a word.  Thank you.

Alison

The Lady
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11 posted 2007-03-06 09:44 PM




oh sweet Dixie
please don’t cry

doesn’t help Roniece
I stamped up and down and carried on
and that’s still the way it ended  
stinks, huh?

you know Alison
I wouldn’t trade a minute or word either
and it still hurts like hell  
thank you  



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