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Sunshine
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Listening to every heart

0 posted 2011-01-27 07:15 PM







The Soul of a Poet

Mayhap it shall come, in its lightest gay,
the heart of a bard to induce my say,
through tales of old, or of some other days,
and a recitation may come this way

Perchance an elegy I might 'ere write
the loss of dear ones far too numerous
of sore lament and grief, both day and night,
‘tho I shan't write o’er the loss of us

To honor Theocritus I would pen
an idyllic scene to suit now and when
that life was blessed pure and fine of fair flair,
and I would give it a pastoral air

If one be a lyrist of lyre and pen
would I gain thus your heart, and e'en then
would you choose to sing fine songs with me
our throats to join in such a harmony

Or in silence of a moment, to muse,
and then to be so joyfully enthused
by the promise of your words to me bring
a song to my heart, I alone might sing

Maybe for me the life of a trouvère
and to pen thus with Parnassian flair
how one might capture one poet’s fair glance,
to pen by chance an Elysian dance

To seize the heart of one who then would pen,
the poet, the bard, a muse, to spend
a night, a day, to master a fine write,
this my wish, and in my dreams are held tight

For the soul of such poet would endure
that the heart of such soul would I ensure



04.04.01
slightly revised
01.27.11



Karilea - if I whisper, will you listen?  Keeping in mind, I must stand close...and keep my promises...




© Copyright 2011 Karilea Rilling Jungel - All Rights Reserved
JerryPat
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1 posted 2011-01-27 07:43 PM


There is no doubt about it I am influenced by those who have gone on before. This poem, this very well constructed poem, is written for the heart of poets everywhere.

Ah, can a jester control himself and be regulated by metrics within a confined space and write his heart with an eight syllable count?

I thoroughly enjoyed this, sunshine.

~ Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.  ~

katahdin
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2 posted 2011-01-27 07:52 PM


Beautiful poem.  Loved the style and the rhymes.
Kat >^..^<

Martie
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3 posted 2011-01-27 07:59 PM


Sissie..."If one be a lyrist of lyre and pen
would I gain thus your heart, and e'en then
would you choose to sing fine songs with me
our throats to join in such a harmony"  If I was, I would and this would be my favorite of them all.  

The_Doctors_Angel_32
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4 posted 2011-01-27 10:05 PM


Beautifully written!!! I love this tribute to the dearly departed. I remember Auguste and Madame Chipmunk most.

When the family is together, the soul is at peace - Russian Proverb


Spiros Zafiris
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5 posted 2011-01-28 01:32 PM


..always the calming words, Sunshine;
words with a rare melody which lifts
one up..>>spiros

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