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Waiting for Valentine's Hand
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Waiting for Valentine's Hand |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart 
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Waiting For Valentine's Hand parchment paper, gone ivory with age rolled slight and with silk ribbon engaged waiting, waiting, for one fair hand to unroll, and read, and know love grand… long rent of desire, a love's long ago lines were written of a beloved, just so a dream of a dreamer, for he dreamt well had fallen in love under a winsome spell in candle's light, with blackest ink he wrote his heart, till dawn pinked in glow of day, he pursued his search no salvation found, nay, not even church so he wrote his heart, and forth it poured 'till in black line his parched love soared he penned till beads of sweat dripped down for ecstasy in pure love he had found and in the night, the blackest of shadows his love came forth, in fever it glowed and he passed on, in his love most content only parchment hid his words, well spent… parchment paper, gone ivory with age rolled slight and with silk ribbon engaged waiting, waiting, for one fair hand to unroll, and read, and know love grand… 02.04.01 Karilea If I whisper, will you listen?... I would rather be silent and write, than speak loudly and be bound. KRJ |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
. . . and now you know the REST of the story . . . Beautiful story, exquisitely rendered. ~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~ |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Jerry, I am very glad that you took a moment to know the rest of the story. Hugs, and Happy Valentines Day.... always K |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
You are quite welcome. ~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~ |
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Klassy Lassy Member Elite
since 2005-06-28
Posts 2187Oregon |
Sunshine, you pull me in by the heartstrings, and I come away with tears in my eyes. History is so full of those who write their hearts, if not on parchment, then on the wind, and it goes unread. As poets we surely come to the essence of the music as it lays itself before us, in the pulse of fingers and Valentines. Lovely work! |
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Balladeer
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since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Beautifully written, Sunshine, and the way you wrapped it up by beginning and ending the sam makes it even more appealing. Happy Valentine's Day, K!  |
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ebonygirl Member Elite
since 2011-07-14
Posts 2000California U.S.A |
Beautiful poem of love, enjoyed, Ms. E |
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ice Member Elite
since 2003-05-17
Posts 3404Pennsylvania |
Oh, I love how this reads...love story/ballad. It has perfect cadence for the theme. Music with a somewhat dark overtone, but not overly so. The wait has been long, and yet it seems the waiter is still able to, and that the chance "for one fair hand to unroll, and read", is still there. That may be overly optimistic, but romance, sometimes doesn't make sense.. Love the poem Ms. Karilea |
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Elizabeth Santos Member Rara Avis
since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269Pennsylvania |
This puts me in a valentine mood Some write of love as tough it were a whim. you write as though it were the vibrant essence of our lives, as it is. liz |
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