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1slick_lady
Member Ascendant

since 2000-12-22

Posts 6088
standing on a shadow's lace

0 posted 2008-10-10 10:06 AM

Empty Echo

emptiness
you are quite shrill
sound is the echo
of the whippoorwill
on ground, from limb
whatever perch
my lonely heart calls
still in search
for you are gone
where did you go
the world is black
as wings of crow
on fettered feathers
I had a fall
I did not answer
you before in call
once in a lifetime
it was a chance
at sigh of breath
the true romance
now only grey skies
call on so bleak
damaged wings fly
my echo to seek
your name on my heart
a tender phrase
and I shall go searching
the rest of my days
I need you
yes, I need you still
is the lonely cry
of the whippoorwill

"no darkness has ever been deep enough to extinguish my personal knowledge of love" Anne Rice

[This message has been edited by 1slick_lady (10-10-2008 12:19 PM).]

steavenr
Member Elite

since 2003-11-17

Posts 4058

1 posted 2008-10-10 05:54 PM

this is powerful...anyone who has been lonely or all alone knows this feeling...thanks for bringing it to the front...thanks for sharing

Mysteria

Member Laureate

since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

2 posted 2008-10-11 12:37 PM

Good grief what a poem for the lonely and longing. Sheesh, hope you have lots of batteries?

A well done rhyme this was indeed. I love to hear the lonely cry of the whippoorwill actually. There is very little as loud as complete silence.

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

3 posted 2008-10-11 06:40 PM

Heartwrenching, yet so beautiful!

Love,
Margherita

"Love is the One who masters all things;
I am mastered totally by Love."
(Rumi)

icebox
Member Elite

since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

4 posted 2008-10-11 07:16 PM

To have loved is to understand.

To have lost is to understand more.

To know the possibilities of love is to define reality.

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

5 posted 2008-10-17 02:57 PM

I need you
yes, I need you still

This resonates to the depths of me... Superb write!

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