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Michael
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0 posted 1999-12-31 06:26 PM


ONE NIGHT

I hear the howl, the winds of hate,
The night calling through bitter frost.
A searing scowl of christened fate,
A light falling beyond love lost.
The echo rings, a trumpet blast!
The darkness shines, the dead stand tall.
Memory sings the moment past,
Silence defines the loss of all.

For deafened ears may heed the call
But blinded eyes may never see.
The price in years behind a wall
Of selfless cries to misery.
True pain, inflicted, holds her charm,
But grown men crawl on bloodied knees.
The feigned, addicted, see no harm,
Sacrifice all in need to please.

Thus Time recounts tainted vision,
Near sighted hopes on stars far flung.
Shame mounts the steed of indecision
Fear's plight on slopes of sorrows, wrung.
The castles fall by blood red sky
The victims flail in the melee.
One by one all will hone the cry,
By gust and gale, forsake the day.

Riches plundered, vows forgotten,
Dreams laid to death, we mourn no more.
Truth, encumbered, misbegotten,
In gasping breath evens the score.
A lifelong act, poured into passion,
Dares call upon priceless delight.
Ignoring fact, in some sweet fashion,
‘Twill all be gone, in but one night.


Michael Anderson


 It's the little things you take for granted,
That'll mean the most to you when they're gone.





© Copyright 1999 Michael Anderson - All Rights Reserved
wayoutwalt
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1 posted 1999-12-31 06:29 PM


tiz the end near michael? very nice poem as usual!
Nan
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2 posted 1999-12-31 06:48 PM


You put lots of thought into this one, Michael - I like it.... Nice job - of course..
Denise
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3 posted 1999-12-31 08:22 PM


Magnificent!  

 Denise


Martie
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4 posted 1999-12-31 08:28 PM


Wow!
hoot_owl_rn
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5 posted 1999-12-31 08:54 PM


Very well written Michael
maedavid
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6 posted 2000-01-01 09:59 AM


Well, we woke up this morning and this isn't Heaven we are in so guess the rapture hasn't taken place as yet.  I really didn't expect it would with so many people expecting it.  I still want to take a cruise but if we get a chance to fly instead, I'm gone.  Great poem Michael.  Happy New Year to you  and little Mikey.  Tell him I want to read another one of his poems.

 The only way to know Love, is to Know God.

Echo Rhayne
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7 posted 2000-01-01 01:08 PM


Michael, this is magnificently wonderful!!


 ~*~ Hell is not a place of fire and a devil with a tail and horns. But a place of torment because the light of God is gone. To escape this, accept the blood of Jesus Christ! ~*~


Michael
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8 posted 2000-01-01 04:28 PM


Thank you all for your kind replies.  Certainly, a lot was behind this one.

MaeDavid, well, I must admit I'd have been surprised myself had the rapture taken place last night, too.  Looking very forward to the cruise, also.  I'm working on Mikey, his attention seems to be soley wrapped up on a computer game right now, though....LOL
Too much like his Daddy, I fear, can't handle two projects at once.


Michael

Mike
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9 posted 2000-01-01 11:19 PM


Very impressive.  
WhtDove
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10 posted 2000-01-02 12:38 PM


Wonderful Michael!

 <*\\\><
Where there is faith,
there is love.
Where there is love,
there is peace.
Where there is peace,
there is GOD.
Where there is GOD,
there is no need.

Hallmark



Severn
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11 posted 2000-01-02 06:55 PM


Michael - most powerful words there!

Wonderful.

K

 ...I am not a painter, I am a poet... F. O'Hara

Christopher
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Purgatorial Incarceration
12 posted 2000-01-02 07:39 PM


Appears that someone was thinking!
Didn't I tell you that was bad for your health Mike?
(But produces wonderful verse!)

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