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RSEvans
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0 posted 2000-06-24 12:43 PM


What mystery do women hold
Enveloped in their silky folds
That cause men, however bold
To follow folly and quest for gold?

Is it her laugh, her lilting song
Or her gentle hands that do no wrong
Her maidens charms, that beg men on
To do for her, to fight the throng?

Is it mother's wisdom, gained through years,
Passed to each daughter with gentle tears
Or a calm that comes, despite her fears
A strength in weakness that endears?

What a wonderous gift to Man God gave,
Desire's mistress and Passion's slave.
Men would likely dwell in caves
If not for the delicate ones we crave.

So where does that leave us, boy and man?
Fighting over a woman's hand
Til' hopefully by grace we stand
With the woman we love wearing wedding band.


Knowlege tempered by wisdom...Wisdom tamed by youth.


© Copyright 2000 Rob Evans - All Rights Reserved
Poet deVine
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Hurricane Alley
1 posted 2000-06-24 12:50 PM


This is lovely Robert!! I like it very much..but do we really do all that?
Janet Marie
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since 2000-01-22
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2 posted 2000-06-24 12:52 PM


this is beautiful and sentimental...
lovely ponderings ...

and all this time I thought it was my fried chicken  

and we ponder many of the same thoughts
about our poets *smile*
take care, jm

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