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Wilfred Yeats
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0 posted 2000-08-28 06:40 PM




The street is quiet
The bee hum dimmer
The grass seems a bit less green
Small puddles remain
Shower's aftermath
Flowers are slow to perk up

In the house the silence
Shouts at me
A few beams from the window
Trying to get a foothold on the rug
Rover's tail unmoved
I'm not ever acknowledged
Does everything,
Everyone
Know you're away?

~*Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden
when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being
loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

                ~ Oscar Wilde ~
*~
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Martie
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1 posted 2000-08-28 07:40 PM


Bill--Funny how some people just warm up a room and bring everything to life, or ...is it your feelings that make it seem that way?  Enjoyed your poem..(psst...if you had some doggy treats, your dog would be more attentive)
Wilfred Yeats
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2 posted 2000-08-28 08:47 PM




Hey - this is a fantasy - fantasy dogs don't eat   but - yes it is funny that things
seem different without a loved one - Thank you Martie ~S~

~*Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden
when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being
loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

                ~ Oscar Wilde ~
*~
             wilfredyeats@hotmail.com               



Meadowmuse
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3 posted 2000-08-28 10:04 PM


Wilfred, an excellent piece of writing. Your itemization of the slowed surroundings sets about effectively showing the stillness, a change obviously noted by the observer, and an indication of loss. Wonderfully expressed, to my way of thinking.

~ Claire

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?......Henry David Thoreau


Wilfred Yeats
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4 posted 2000-08-28 10:38 PM


Claire -

Coming from you - I consider you reply very high praise indeed - Thank you

~Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time,destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

                ~ Germain de Stael ~

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WhtDove
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5 posted 2000-08-28 10:42 PM


You've described this with perfection!
Silence does seem to shout don't it? I get so little of it that I'll listen to that kind of shout anytime!

Enjoyed this!

Chanson
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6 posted 2000-08-28 10:44 PM


I can and do relate to this one. Well said!  ....chanson~


Wilfred Yeats
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7 posted 2000-08-28 10:53 PM


Whtdove-
Know what you mean - there's good and bad silence - thank you

Chanson-
thank you - relating means a lot


~Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.

                ~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery ~

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Paula Finn
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8 posted 2000-08-29 12:42 PM


This says so much to me...I cant begin to tell you
Wilfred Yeats
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9 posted 2000-08-29 08:14 AM


Paula-   I'm so pleased you fould (I hope) all I tried to put there. Thank you.

~Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time,destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

                ~ Germain de Stael ~

               wilfredyeats@hotmail.com                 

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