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If Music Be The Voice Of Love
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If Music Be The Voice Of Love |
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Balladeer
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since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA 
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If music be the voice of love Then let me be your violin. Hold me gently in your hands And I will bring forth such glorious notes That you will be bathed in the glowing rhapsody 0f my love for you. My music will rise up loudly enough To reach heaven itself - Yet softly enough To fall gently upon your ear. Handle my love as you would a delicate instrument For the way I am touched is the way I must respond. Harshness or anger directed at my strings Can result only in notes of discord and misery Whereas the gentle touch of tenderness Will create melody divine. Don't place me in a corner, Untouched and unwanted For, if another picks me up, due to your neglect, I will respond ..... For that is the nature of what I am. But, if the fingers touching me are not yours, Then the song played Would be but a hollow echo of the joy I am capable of producing. For I was designed for your hands alone And only your touch can turn the key, Releasing all the wonderful melodies That lie untouched inside of me. If music be the voice of love Then hold me gently to your chin, Caress me through eternity And let me be vour violin. |
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Augchic711 Member
since 1999-06-17
Posts 80O'Fallon, IL, USA |
Yet again Balladeer I am left speechless to your words of everlasting love! You give me such an ongoing hope! Thank you for your work! Encore Encore!!! *******Augchic711******* |
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sea_of_okc Senior Member
since 1999-06-15
Posts 568Oklahoma City, OK, USA |
What can I say? Chalk up another winner for balladeer... wonderful allegory and very touching as always... |
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Balladeer
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since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Thank you both for your encouraging words. You inspire me to write more.....I think I will! Oh,and RED! I did it again. Please don't be distracted.... |
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Sally S. Senior Member
since 1999-06-07
Posts 847Ohio |
Someone please tell me..how can it be true? How is it possible a publisher has yet to woo you? Your words are so beautiful..there aren't enough adjectives in the language to do your work justice. Sigh....I think I need a cup of tea and a good cry. Emotions are running a little high. Don't stop!!! By the way..are you married?  (Ok, I am so...Maybe you shouldn't answer that.)Oops, my teapot calls..... Adieu.. |
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Balladeer
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since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Sally, balladeers are wandering minstrels. I can't thank you enough for your words and thoughts. I appreciate you. |
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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
I would have thought you'd be a trumpet! I think you have to be one of the BEST poets I've ever read! I tell you..send this one to Oprah Winfrey and she'll have you on her show and some publisher will snap you up! You're poetry has touched me so often and in so many places, I'm black and blue! |
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elvira Senior Member
since 1999-07-06
Posts 936California |
i do so enjoy a double violin concerto ...*giggles*  ------------------ I will live my life as i, will undoubtedly die - alone ~~~Morrissey~~~ |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
Wow....is currently thinking of taking up violin lessons....know any good instructors?? Smiles...again Balladeer, you have outdone yourself...and once more I say...GET IT OUT TO A PUBLISHER!!! ------------------ "Nobody has measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold" ~Zelda Fitzgerald |
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Isis Member Ascendant
since 1999-09-06
Posts 6296Sunny Queensland |
Balladeer how beautiful. Get it to a publisher alright!! We indeed have kindred souls when it comes to music!!! SUPERB!!  What the inner voice says will NOT disappoint the hoping soul. ~Isis~ (Daughter of Mystery) |
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WhtDove Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-22
Posts 9245Illinois |
I thought that I read this before, this was an excellent poem Balladeer! It plucked at those strings in my heart. |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
wow...a different side of you Deer....I like it |
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latearrival Member Ascendant
since 2003-03-21
Posts 5499Florida |
You are tops. I love everything you write. best, marty |
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saved_by_grace Member
since 2005-01-08
Posts 332In the arms of God... |
WOW...this rings so true!! Absolutely BEAUTIFUL!! I am keeping this one m'friend! Becka  |
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Balladeer
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since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Thank you, miss. I appreciate it VERY much!  |
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Sally S. Senior Member
since 1999-06-07
Posts 847Ohio |
Hello my 'deer. It's been a long time. Just stopping by for a visit. This poem is certainly a favorite of mine. I hope all is well with you! Take care, ~Sally |
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Balladeer
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since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Just a visit, Sally??? Stick around...you have many friends here and you have been missed! You bring back wonderful memories of another time.. |
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Earl Brinkman Senior Member
since 2010-03-03
Posts 1183Osaka, Japan |
I am glad Sally pulled this up out of the archives. It is a lovely poem. |
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Brad Majors 
since 2001-04-03
Posts 2647Georgia |
wonderful piece! |
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Balladeer
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since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Thank you, gentlemen  |
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