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Song of the Unredeemed
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Song of the Unredeemed |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California 
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Song of the Unredeemed The beauty of your mind I sorely miss, As dear to me as the sound of your voice. Your song alighting like a gentle kiss, Which brought the dark within me to rejoice. A fallen angel, more by choice than chance; Your touch healing the scars of missing wings. The very heavens shook with our romance, Down Eternity’s hall the echoes ring. Your words, they will hold me beyond forever. Far past this life and soul that I have doomed. To walk the wasteland of pointless endeavor, Longing for that which cannot be exhumed. But while fate of your Vampyr has been sealed, I still can hope, and do, Time’s found you healed. Michael Anderson 07/05/2020 |
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augustsky Senior Member Posts 828 midwest US |
The Romantic ache of this is a thing of Beauty, also a true maturity in wishing the other well. Always a pleasure.. Sky~ Sometimes..Miracles are just good people |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
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thank you, Sky~ It's rare to have and lose a love in life where neither party stopped to burn it to the ground in the parting. I was lucky enough to have had 10 wonderful years with such a person. The grace of the gentle parting allows the memories to remain what they should be... something special, forever held. Michael |
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Marshalzu  
since 2001-02-15
Posts 2681Lurking |
Wonderful writing Michael, I'm in the middle of seperating from my wife and this really spoke to me, made me appreciate all the special memories and reminded me of all the things I miss about her. |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California |
I'm glad this poem touched you in this manner, Marshalzu. Someone once told me it takes the bad to make you appreciate the good in life. When all is said and done, though, we make the conscious choice of what we take with us. There is peace in this. Michael |
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Paul Wilson
since 2002-07-07
Posts 4711United States |
Michael...You must know that this touched me in a special way ( Not Romantically ) but as a father who lost the why and the drive to most of my poetry. Thanks so much for touching my heart and sharing yours with us. Together time will hopefully heal all of us that reads this...Paul ~~To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you~~ Paul |
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2islander2 Member Ascendant
since 2008-03-12
Posts 6825by the sea |
touching and wonderful, the soul need a partner, thanks for the gracious poetry yann |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California |
Michael...You must know that this touched me in a special way ( Not Romantically ) but as a father who lost the why and the drive to most of my poetry. Thanks so much for touching my heart and sharing yours with us. Together time will hopefully heal all of us that reads this...Paul Thank you, Paul. I cannot honestly say the pain ever goes away in either your case or mine, but I do know time has allowed me to focus more clearly on the good times that were and appreciate them for what they are despite the pain. Healing comes with that and though the pain still has its place, it's no longer all consuming. Michael |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California |
I agree with you yann, the soul is not meant to traverse this world alone. Thank you for the read and reply.  Michael |
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Temptress
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-06-15
Posts 7136Mobile, AL |
I have ex type people who I wish happiness for, and am glad when they find it. A few of them are suspicious of it. I don't know why. Your caring shows through in this. It reads like a sad but sighing fond story of a memory. It takes a lot of letting go of the why it didn't work to be able to wish for their healing. "How much is real? So much to question |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California |
Jenn, I will never understand why people choose to carry bitterness with them from a relationship, or why they can't see how they themselves strangle any good by sticking around in a bad one. If there is bad, I do all I can to erase it from my mind, and move forward from it...forgiveness is key. hanging on to bitterness only poisons your own soul, and chances are the offending party will never even realize the harm you've done to yourself on account of them. It's not worth it. Michael |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
Very haunting write, Michael. I have never had an Ex or any ex romances. I was married to the same man from the time I was 19 until he died but there have been many tragedies in my life that this poem touched on. |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California |
I'm glad you could relate to this poem on some level, Ida. It comes from a lace of being able to look back fondly, not at all tainted by bitterness of any kind. I also consider you very blessed to have had a long marriage with a single partner, that is rare and very special in my eyes. Michael |
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Starmcneil 1955 Member Posts 174 Alberta, Canada |
The first word that shouted at me is Unredeemed...I believe in a world filled with forgiveness that also includes forgetting the wrongs done...I try to forgive and forget while praying for the other person to experience happiness in their lives...wonderful read that shines with hope for the future...seems I could go on but know this poem made me smile inside and out...well done |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California |
“I try to forgive and forget while praying for the other person to experience happiness in their lives” That is a beautiful thing in and of itself, Karen. The world could use a lot more true forgiveness. I am glad this poem touched you the way it did. From the deepest wounds spring forth the most beautiful life altering concepts, or at least around them and because of them, they are shaped. I walk today, a completely different man because of this particular one. Michael |
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