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Open Poetry #46

Close Encounters of the Farthest Kind

gilead
Senior Member

since 2008-03-10

Posts 1067
nevada, USA

0 posted 2010-03-01 12:00 PM

It was a quiet, late afternoon.
I was alone in the art lab,
A schoolboy not long off the farm,
A thousand miles from home.
I relive the moment with such clarity
Of sweet remembrance.

Janáček was playing on the stereo.
A mournful violin haunted the stillness,
When suddenly Sarah walked in,
Gliding across, as if her feet barely
Touched the floor!

She took up a place behind me as I anxiously
Dabbed my brush upon the palette.

Oh! she exclaimed, you have made me
So beautiful! I turned and met her astonishing,
Blue eyes, and smiled, as she placed a hand
On each of my shoulders—my heart leapt!

That singular, breathless moment,
Was as close as our hearts would ever meet . . .

gilead
Senior Member

since 2008-03-10

Posts 1067
nevada, USA

1 posted 2010-03-01 12:01 PM

Oh, to sail, again, among the sunny isles of youth!

---Art

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

2 posted 2010-03-01 12:20 PM

A wonderfully exciting moment, dear Art. You rendered it most beautifully!

Love,
Margherita

gilead
Senior Member

since 2008-03-10

Posts 1067
nevada, USA

3 posted 2010-03-01 12:31 PM

Thanks, Lady Margherita! Your perceptive powers are keen, and always expressed with kindness and compassion.

Art

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

4 posted 2010-03-01 12:33 PM

wonderful (impressionistic) 'slice of life' write!

MUCH applause for this fine 'penning' !!

Bill Charles
Member Patricius

since 2000-07-11

Posts 10619
highways, & byways, for now

5 posted 2010-03-01 10:47 PM

gilead - your writing brought a tear to my eye, so softly written. You are an artist...

BC

gilead
Senior Member

since 2008-03-10

Posts 1067
nevada, USA

6 posted 2010-03-02 06:04 PM

Thank you, Bruce; your kind words have brightened my day! Regards--- Art

gilead
Senior Member

since 2008-03-10

Posts 1067
nevada, USA

7 posted 2010-03-02 06:09 PM

Thank you, Bill. Your generous words humbles me, and I will strive all the more to develop whatever ability I may have.

Best wishes--- Art

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