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gilead
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since 2008-03-10
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nevada, USA

0 posted 2008-04-15 03:09 PM


Despair’s perfect storm---
The burning urge
To write just one more letter
To a friend now dead---
Beyond the alphabet, the syllables,
The words churning in the heart!

Oh, how hollow the sorrow of remiss---
"Best to receive flowers while we live"!


© Copyright 2008 arthur chapman, jr - All Rights Reserved
shyvl
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since 2008-04-11
Posts 531
texas, usa
1 posted 2008-04-15 03:14 PM


You have such talented use of expressions
"Despair’s perfect storm---
The burning urge
To write just one more letter"  I sympathize with the opportunities lost.  We often let the pricelss slip away.  Thanks for sharing.
sharyn

gilead
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since 2008-03-10
Posts 1067
nevada, USA
2 posted 2008-04-15 03:39 PM


Shyvl,

You captured the meaning of the poem so well, and I am pleased!

Thanks for taking the time!

Art

Seoulair
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since 2008-03-27
Posts 807
Seoul S.Korea
3 posted 2008-04-15 03:49 PM


beautiful poem and the truth.
Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California
4 posted 2008-04-15 03:55 PM


I think we all have our haunting regrets, Art.
You just know how to say what we're all thinking.

                                   Ida

jwesley
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since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563
Spring, Texas
5 posted 2008-04-15 10:07 PM


Great piece, my friend.  That's why I don't visit the graves of friends of relatives. If I didn't let them know when they were alive...it's too late now (confident they knew though...).

j.

2islander2
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since 2008-03-12
Posts 6825
by the sea
6 posted 2008-04-16 01:18 PM


Hello Art,  we are desperately naive about each others feelings, we should do more and more to comunicate nicely, I'm sure we could...

Bravo mon ami.

   yann

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