The Imminent Tolling of Distant Bells

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Open Poetry #5

The Imminent Tolling of Distant Bells

gofor42
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since 2000-01-23

Posts 143
Arkansas

0 posted 2000-01-23 11:12 PM

When your last bastion of love is gone,
And all that's left is an empty shell
and broken promises,
When you've nowhere else to turn,
But you're afraid to go back to all
the pain,
Death shall steal in on muffled tread,
Sneak the breath from your lungs
in midsentence.
Life shall cease its finite toil,
The struggle over and no clear
victor named,
And at that moment,
That last crystal clear instant,
You shall know for whom the bell tolls.

Wendy Flora
Member

since 2000-01-11

Posts 182
Virginia

1 posted 2000-01-23 11:16 PM

Yay! Highly cool! I love the idea... especially the death stealing breath in midsentence...

I love it! -wen

Skyfyre
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since 1999-08-15

Posts 1906
Sitting in Michael's Lap

2 posted 2000-01-23 11:16 PM

Wow -- what a sobering portrait of despair you have painted here! It was laced in every word ...

Welcome to Passions, BTW -- look forward to reading more from you!

--Kess

Full fathom five thy father lies,
Of his bones are coral made,
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange...

--William Shakespeare, from The Tempest

Poet deVine

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since 1999-05-26

Posts 22612
Hurricane Alley

3 posted 2000-01-23 11:19 PM

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Check YOUR email..

Welcome to the family!

Elizabeth Santos
Member Rara Avis

since 1999-11-08

Posts 9269
Pennsylvania

4 posted 2000-01-23 11:25 PM

I love your poetry and look forward to many more like this one
Liz

Denise

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since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

5 posted 2000-01-23 11:30 PM

Welcome to Passions! Excellent poem!

Denise

Wendy Flora
Member

since 2000-01-11

Posts 182
Virginia

6 posted 2000-01-24 01:26 AM

I'm sending this one back to the top... it's SO good!...

-wen

One Who Understands
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since 2000-01-20

Posts 251
Cedar Rapids, Iowa

7 posted 2000-01-24 01:33 AM

I think that you will always have the streangth to love. Emptyness is only a temporary hole waiting to be filled...

wonderful poem

whiskey

Senior Member

since 1999-12-28

Posts 1278
Australia

8 posted 2000-01-24 08:37 AM

This is great , I loved it , Welcome to passions

hoot_owl_rn
Member Patricius

since 1999-07-05

Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA

9 posted 2000-01-24 10:58 AM

Welcome to passions

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