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Elizabeth Santos
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0 posted 2000-06-12 04:03 PM


Who Wrote This Song?

When first the music touched my ear
And speared my chest’s most tender wound
I felt the chords were opening
This melody so long entombed

For never had such sweet, sweet thorns
enfolded round a  lover’s rose
Nor had a soft musicians hand
So magically a love exposed

Wasn’t it the samba beat ?
That smooth and gentle way we danced
Or did we fall in love that night to
To bossa’s most exotic trance?

It was a night of Carnival
But unlike any I had known
The night I fell in love with you
I felt this music all my own

Was it within Lambada sway?
That we were lost in lover’s steep
The ladies wore those little skirts
With nothing, nothing underneath

And now tonight these songs recall
The nights on Samba’s coastal turf
These very notes were ever pulsing
On Lambadas’ swinging skirts

They pierce the night but no one knows
How deep the notes fall in my tears
Who wrote this song, this wondrous song?
That stirred the hurt of bygone years

Now as the song plays on and on
The melody’s sharp dagger wanes
And washes wounds with sweetest balm
Like mellow wine runs throught the veins

It mixes tears of joy and sorrow
Non distinguished are the two
Who could have known that these pure notes
Would so bewitch, I wonder who?

Who wrote this song, then left me here
With just a one single little kiss
Who plays the chords of bygone days
Unraveling my unhappiness

Whoever wrote these glorious notes
Knows who I am and what my thought
For only I could know the meaning
Of a phrase so deeply wrought

Whatever magic pen he holds
Who ever wrote this melody
Whatever muse his heart enfolds
This song was written just for me

Elizabeth Santos


[This message has been edited by Elizabeth Santos (edited 06-12-2000).]

© Copyright 2000 Elizabeth Santos - All Rights Reserved
brian madden
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1 posted 2000-06-12 04:30 PM


Music can be quite powerful and sometimes it feels at if it is speaking to just us. anyway wow...and wow... LIz that was amazing such atmosphere, such beauty, I just loved the way this flows. SO romantic. If you don't mind i would I really like to print a copy of this poem off.  Along with Post petals this is my probably my favourite poem
from your pen.

And now tonight these songs recall
The nights on Samba’s coastal turf
These very notes were ever pulsing
On Lambadas’ swinging skirts

They pierce the night but no one knows
How deep the notes fall in my tears
Who wrote this song, this wondrous song?
That stirred the hurt of bygone years

Now as the song plays on and on
The melody’s sharp dagger wanes
And washes wounds with sweetest balm
Like mellow wine runs throught the veins

wow. wonderful poem.



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"Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time".

Baltimore Grotto

"To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."

E.E Cummings.

manic street preachers
"Culture Alienation Borebom and Despair"

"I know I believe in nothing but it is my nothing" -faster MSP

"And you see, I kind of shiver to conformity
Did you see, the way I cower to authority, you see
And my life, it's a series of compromises anyway
It's a sham, and I'm conditioned to accept it all, you see" six by Paul Draper.

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Elizabeth Santos
Member Rara Avis
since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269
Pennsylvania
2 posted 2000-06-12 05:14 PM


Thank you Brian for your very kind words on several of my poems, of course you may print it out. Here comes the lightening so off goes the computer see you later
Thanks
Liz

JamesMichael
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3 posted 2000-06-12 05:19 PM


Lovely and romantic.   James
Eloise
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4 posted 2000-06-12 06:32 PM


More beautiful ink from your pen.  I so look forward to reading your posts.  
Skyfyre
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since 1999-08-15
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Sitting in Michael's Lap
5 posted 2000-06-12 06:48 PM


I thought I heard the beating drum,
I felt the heat, I joined the dance,
I danced the sweet delerium
That shunned the weight of circumstance;

I breathed the scent with wild delight,
But then, with unbelieving eye,
I watched it fade into the night:
And, through the tears, I watched it die.


This was indeed an adventure.  You will dance again ...  

--Kess


 YOUR LIFE IS A TEST

It is only a test ...

If this were your Actual Life, you would have been given better instructions!


JulieAnn
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since 2000-06-12
Posts 754
Earth 3rd Rock from the sun!!
6 posted 2000-06-12 06:56 PM


Songs are the magic of a romantic night....always saying what we don't dare...Loved your poem!!  
LoveBug
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7 posted 2000-06-12 07:20 PM


Music is a powerful thing, just as powerful as poetry, and just as staying. I've felt like this many times, and you describe it beautifully.

 "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." -Oscar Wilde

Balladeer
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8 posted 2000-06-12 08:26 PM


I am not going to respond to this poem. There are no words I could use to do it justice. Disregard this message. I am not here  
Denise
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9 posted 2000-06-12 08:35 PM


I second Balladeer on that! I am speechless and, of course, teary-eyed.

Denise

Marge Tindal
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10 posted 2000-06-12 08:40 PM


Blown away !
~*Marge*~


 ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
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Elizabeth Santos
Member Rara Avis
since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269
Pennsylvania
11 posted 2000-06-13 09:05 PM


THank you all for your kind comments, including Balladeer , whom I consider present
I appreciate all of your remarks, and skyfyre, your poem. Thank you all
Liz

wayoutwalt
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12 posted 2000-06-13 09:23 PM


cant add much i just love your poetry
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