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Butterflies_dont_cry
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since 2000-03-06
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Michigan

0 posted 2000-05-11 09:20 PM



It’s starting again, I wish it would cease
This feeling of hope breaking my peace

Just when I was content and ready to heal
You walk in with laughter and loving zeal

I don’t want to wonder where this will go
I don’t want to feel and I don’t want to know

I reach for the past and look to remind
That’s where this will go...I’m not blind

I don’t want to love you and don’t want to care
You’ll leave in the end and my embrace will be bare

Alone to pick up the shattered remains
I fight off the hope and my control drains  

So stay where you are and don’t let me hope once more
For my heart can’t take this.... so I’ve locked the door




[This message has been edited by Butterflies_dont_cry (edited 05-11-2000).]

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Lone Wolf
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since 2000-03-16
Posts 5842
Lansing, MI USA
1 posted 2000-05-11 09:29 PM


B.D.C.
Such beauty and apin in these words, my friend.  I hope that all is well with you.  Please remember..."nothing ventured, nothing gained".  Keeping you in my thoughts.
{{{HUGS}}}
LW


 Friends are friend forever if the Lord's the Lord of them and a friend will not say never cause the welcome will not end.
--Michael W. Smith

babeluv73
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since 2000-04-05
Posts 19

2 posted 2000-05-11 10:52 PM


WOW! That's all i can say! i so understand how you feel. I actually started crying when i read it. But just for thought...you'll never touch truelove if you don't take the chance.

babeluv73

netswan
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since 2000-03-28
Posts 1369
Washington
3 posted 2000-05-11 11:02 PM


My dear sweet butterly ----here is the
key to that door ----life is precious
and one never knows when it shall end.
Take each precious moment and learn to
trust again.

Beautiful poem, by the way --)

Hugs from netswan

jwesley
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since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563
Spring, Texas
4 posted 2000-05-11 11:11 PM


Truly beautiful, B.D.C. Wonderfully put.
Have you tried reading it without the word "for" in the last line?  Just a thought.

Remember...for every love lost, there's a dozen more waiting to share your heart, and you'll never find "the one" if you lock them all out.

Janet Marie
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since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554

5 posted 2000-05-12 01:10 AM


true love does not imprison or chain,
it allows a heart to breathe again.
trust your heart to hold the key,
remember this is meant to be...
&
BUTTERFLIES ARE MEANT TO BE FREE.  

JM

need I say more? *smile*
(except) love this poem!!!
and the poet who wrote it .



 It's amazing
How you make your face just like a wall
How you take your heart and turn it off
How I turn my head and you lose it all ...
And it's unnerving
How one move just puts me by myself
There you go just trusting someone else
Now I know I put us both through hell ...
I'm not sayin
That there was nothing wrong
I just didn't think you'd ever get tired of me
And I'm not sayin
We ever had the right to hold on
I just didn't wanna let you get away from me.
~MB20~Leave



Marge Tindal
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6 posted 2000-05-12 01:18 AM


ButterfliesDC~

'For my heart can’t take this'

So poignant are these words ...
sweetie, I hope you find that special someone who has the key to unlock your loving heart again.

Beautifully sad.
~*Marge*~


 ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
noles1@totcon.com


Butterflies_dont_cry
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since 2000-03-06
Posts 3733
Michigan
7 posted 2000-05-12 06:44 AM


L.W. Yes all is well thank you for caring and thank you for reading my friend.

babeluv73* The touch of poetry...when it works...is very strong.  Thank you so much for reading.

Netswan* *hugs*   thanks! And thank you for reading  

jwesley* Thank you for your kind words, and thank you for your input it's appreciated.

J.M.* No need to say more   Thank you for Everything! **AWhugs** S.S.

Marge*   You are one sweet lady   And I hope so too, thank you sooooo much!



[This message has been edited by Butterflies_dont_cry (edited 05-12-2000).]

mete out
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since 2000-02-16
Posts 270
england
8 posted 2000-05-12 07:07 AM


***butterflies,
this is a gorgeous poem, but so sad.

it really touched me.all your work does...
well done.


 I am not a preacher, I just speak the world as I see it.



Denise
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since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648

9 posted 2000-05-12 12:05 PM


It sounds as though you have let your pain bring you much wisdom, Butterflies! Good for you! This is beautifully done!

Denise

Butterflies_dont_cry
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since 2000-03-06
Posts 3733
Michigan
10 posted 2000-05-12 04:40 PM


Mete* Thank you as always you are much to sweet!

Denise* I'm not sure it's wisdom....lol but thank you so much for reading  

REBECCA ALLYN
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since 2000-05-09
Posts 91
Lima,Ohio
11 posted 2000-05-12 04:43 PM


I understand!!and I love this poem!! such beautiful words it reminds me of myself!!!


SMILE
LOTS of LUV,
Becky

Danny Holloway
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since 2000-01-15
Posts 2034
Tulsa, OK
12 posted 2000-05-12 05:10 PM


This poem is so full of emotion.  Another example of your fine writing. Really like the butterfly image!
and, thanks for responding to my poem.
Danny

EagleOne
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since 2000-03-07
Posts 2829
Between a laugh and a tear...
13 posted 2000-05-12 07:00 PM


WOW! butterfly this is so emotive, such sadness, pain, and longing expressed so beautifully. Well done my friend!

 Not all those who wander are lost. ~J.R.R. Tolkien

Skyfyre
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since 1999-08-15
Posts 1906
Sitting in Michael's Lap
14 posted 2000-05-12 07:19 PM


Echoes of my soul .. Amen.

--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


Alwye
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Posts 3850
In the space between moments
15 posted 2000-05-13 12:24 PM


I'll ditto Kess...indeed echoes of my soul.  Except I haven't locked the door...keeping hope and watching yourself get slammed again and again is a hard way to go through life, thats for sure...powerful and so true are your words, butterflies_dont_cry.

 *Krista Knutson*

~We are only truly lost when we have lost ourselves~

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