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Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

0 posted 1999-09-20 09:29 PM

My Mind, Forever Young

In thin scripted lines of written poetry
there is a yearning for times long past;
when hearts of men were there to see,
when love was but the question asked.

Not the caressing of persons shared
but more of when the minds are paired,
when tongues drip words of sweet desire
sharing a lover’s speech in honeyed mire.

To have one gaze longingly into my soul
and find it timeless in its whole,
looking past aged wrinkles and fine lines
one treasures, forever young, my mind.

With the mind, love might forever cease
when thoughts turn ugly, love’s decreased;
but when fertile thoughts of love unwinds
one treasures, forever young, my mind.

Memories never fade, but softly linger,
held in one’s stroke, sweet grasp of finger
never wintry or arthritic in its touch
forever young, my mind holds much.

Amazing, what thoughts can render
when shared with others forever young,
cryptic messages to love’s sender,
memories of loves’ sweetness thus be sung.

Nay, I’ll not stop this aging process
of widening hips and flattening chest
nay, I’ll hold poems close to my breast
forever young, my mind is best.

©KRJ
20 September, 1999

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Sunshine
Look, then, into thine heart, and write ~~~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Julie
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since 1999-08-20

Posts 739
Houston, TX

1 posted 1999-09-20 09:45 PM

Definately the song of my soul. We are
only as old as we feel. Right?

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Julie
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..."to thine own self be true."
>William Shakespeare

Nan

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since 1999-05-20

Posts 21191
Cape Cod Massachusetts USA

2 posted 1999-09-21 07:57 AM

Very nice, Sunshine - I figure...
I can do something about the hips,
and the chest will never flatten,
the hair isn't graying,
so just keep on playing

Pepper
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since 1999-08-19

Posts 3079
Southern Florida

3 posted 1999-09-21 08:15 AM

very well written...Sunshine, I love this line "when tongues drip words of sweet desire sharing a lover's speech in honeyed mire"

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May your days be filled with lots of sunshine and your nights lit up by golden moonbeams

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

4 posted 1999-09-21 08:25 AM

Sunshine,
Enjoyed the poem you have many good lines.
I didn't think you could get better but you have *L*

Sunshine

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5 posted 1999-09-21 08:44 AM

Julie, we will perform a duet;
Nan, only some things will I change;
Pepper, love it when someone quotes my words back to me;
and Sy, perhaps we've not seen 'nuttin', yet!

hoot_owl_rn
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since 1999-07-05

Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA

6 posted 1999-09-21 10:08 AM

Beautifully written Sunshine

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"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer" ~Albert Camus

Sunshine

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7 posted 1999-09-21 10:11 AM

Thank you, Hoot. I enjoyed writing this one...actually, I enjoy writing them all, but some seem more special than others.

suthern

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since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

8 posted 1999-09-21 10:25 AM

Great job, Sunshine!!! The rest of me is hopeless... but my mind still occasionally visits me... as young and full of dreams as ever! *G*

Sunshine

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9 posted 1999-09-21 08:47 PM

No one is ever hopeless, but let's hope we all stay young at heart, and in mind!

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