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Webs Ensnare
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Marsha
since 2000-07-10
Posts 7423Maidstone Kent England 
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Webs Ensnare  You weave your web and then you set your trap And unaware was I when it shuts with a snap I saw only your glitter, as I tasted your wine Unfortunate one was I for ignoring your sign I heard the warnings ring, the bell was loud But I fell in love with you that’s not allowed Now my sweet hearts' song has turned so sad When love turns off that’s when hearts go mad You whispered the incantation to cast your spell Waved your hands and then struck a magic bell All that smoke and the mirrors were just a trick Wouldn’t it be easier if my heart hadn’t got sick? For the cure for heartache is not to love at all For hearts that stay safe can’t be hurt by the fall Free me to watch you play the game over again And one day soon I won’t be suffering this pain For it’s not the trap that causes the worst agony The pain comes from your soul that’s killing me Knowing that I’m held trapped here in your clasp This is the torture that has me sobbing as I gasp You don’t really want to continue to hold to me But still you chain me not letting me go, fly free Why don’t you release me from your hearts chain? Set me free before my soul dies in this captive pain I used to enjoy all your tricks seeing you deceive Saying if I ever saw them their danger I’d perceive But it seems that I was unwary as the others were And their collective unhappy fate I now will share What is the point in holding me here in your thrall? I don’t want to be your little puppet or your pet fool If you let me go now I’ll be able, just, to stand alone But stay longer I’ll become as insubstantial as foam Marsha Take back the hope you gave,- I claim Only a memory of the same Robert Browning |
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doreen peri Member Elite
since 1999-05-25
Posts 3812Virginia |
"For the cure for heartache is not to love at all For hearts that stay safe can’t be hurt by the fall" *sigh*... truer words were never spoken... and i totally identified with this one, marsha... as always, you say so much...  |
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Iwritethepoems Junior Member
since 2001-01-21
Posts 25 |
this sounds so real, I think it should begin with "Dear....whoever!!!!! |
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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
If this is real life talking, I'm glad YOU or whomever finally saw the light. If it's not, you've portrayed many real feelings here. Excellent! I love this.  |
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Mark Bohannan Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-21
Posts 7269In the winds of Cherokee song |
Reminds me of a song in Pinnochio...."There Are No Strings On Me". Wonderful write with loads of emotion. If you find yourself stranded in a storm ...then reach for my hand and we will play in the puddles together |
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Kethry Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-29
Posts 9082Victoria Australia |
Marsha, I loved this! BUT the day you become as insubstantial as foam is the day I become a dead eyed poetry jukie... oh I already am! write on, pain's song Keth Those of us who refuse to risk and grow get swallowed up by life. Patty Hansen. |
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snowpants Member Elite
since 2000-09-16
Posts 2061KS |
'I used to enjoy all your tricks seeing you deceive Saying if I ever saw them their danger I’d perceive But it seems that I was unwary as the others were And their collective unhappy fate I now will share' Great write, Marsha! All too true sometimes! sp Never leave me, never go... I need you here, I need to know... You will always be Close to me |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
Excellent love. . . always good to know that there are those that can see right through those webs. . . Superb my friend. . . ---------------------------------------------------------- To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world. |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
I used to enjoy all your tricks seeing you deceive Saying if I ever saw them their danger I’d perceive =================== sometimes we get caught in our own webs .. sometimes we get caught in anothers ... I guess thats why someone wise so long ago wrote the old "tangled web we weave" verse. another well done poem Marsha, you do your teachers and mentors proud ... cute graphic take care jm "she calls me baby ... she calls everybody baaaaby". ~jc mellencamp~ ;) |
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Marsha
since 2000-07-10
Posts 7423Maidstone Kent England |
Doreen love, thank you, I think this is what they call residual feelings. But as always writing seems to cleanse me from it. And thank the Lord for that because nothing is so bad for the soul as negativity and pain. It's like it strangles what we are, wraps us in nights fears and stops us seeing the light that is there. Thank you as always and I do mean it Take care Mushy  IWTP, thank you love it was real, and it's the spring clean of my heart. Thank you so much for reading and replying it and I hope you enjoy yourself here at Passions Take care Mushy Sharon love, it was real life, what I call my sort of clear out of all those feelings that hold you back when you need to move on. Thank you love as always you are far too generous in praise, and I thank you so very muchly, Take care love Mushy Mark my friend, Thank you, mmmmm I've got no strings yes I quite like that. I do know that this actually came from the feelings of being trapped and held down against my better judgement. But I've walked that road before, and I will never go there again. Don't they say that all experience is grist to the mill, so this is just a reminder or those experiences. Take care Mushy Kethry love, you lie my sweet friend sweetly and wonderfully but you still lie love. As insubstantial as sea foam, as light and as bright as a bubble and frivilous to boot. But it matters not because, I have the most talented friends and i can steal their poems and rearange them and no one but they will know. Hand over you best phrases love, I need some new ones. Thank you dear heart and you know I mean it. (About her handing over all her phrases peeps not thanking her, she doesn't deserve it she's perfidious and treacherous! Aren't you love ) Quick I better tell them I don't mean it, or I'll be beaten to a pulp by the KPCS (I'll leave you to work it out love )Take care love as always Slushy SP love, thank you so very muchly love, as I've said my soul spring clean, and i do appreciate you reading and responding really I do. Take care Mushy Sven dear heart, thank you, I can try to see through the web love, and sometimes I can even totally avoid it. This particular time I didn't, and ended up rather like a fly caught and unable to work out how to cut myself free. But I did so this is me clearing away those last feelings. Thanks love, for lots of things and you know you are appreciated Take care love Mushy Janet Marie love thank you so very much, although my mentors and tutors will tell you that given half a chance I will cruise it at the least opportunity. And it's true I'm afraid, they do have to crack the whip to get the least amount of work out of me. Half the trouble is that I can do it without too much effort, so I leave it for as long as possible, crank out one of my poems and say there I've done it, and it took ages. And they laugh and I give them a smile and honour is satisfied. But unfortunately for me, they all know me far too well now so they give time limits, and now I do have to work. Oh woe is me. I know it's good for my soul. And my poetry is improving I think, but it will never be in the same class as Passions Masters and Passions Mistresses, who all have graced my post with their presence. Anyway thank you muchly Take care love Mushy Take back the hope you gave,- I claim Only a memory of the same Robert Browning |
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Balladeer
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
You paint quite a picture here, mushy. I hope it's not the world wide web you're talking about! your descriptions are excellent! |
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Paula Finn Member Ascendant
since 2000-06-17
Posts 5546missouri |
Marsha...mmm mmmm mmm girl...sweep those webs away...when you see them for what they are its easier to take a broom to the pesky little things...swat swat swat...no more nasties...love ay We all have wings...some of us don't know why |
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Marsha
since 2000-07-10
Posts 7423Maidstone Kent England |
'Deer love, noooo not that web dear 'Deer, that isn't anywhere near as dangerous to me as the other webs. Thank you love I do appreciate it. Always good news to have the good guy on my side, even if your hat is slightly smudged . After all my halo isn't in place either. (Ask Kethry love, she'll tell you ) But don't listen to anything else she says because..........Anyway thank you muchly love Take care love Mushy Paula dear heart, we can spray them with truth and beauty love, and then they'll show up in the light. And once we've swept them all away, my doesn't the view improve love. Thank you love as always Take care kid Mushy love ya to dear heart be good but not too... Take back the hope you gave,- I claim Only a memory of the same Robert Browning |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Excellent, my friend.... in what weave would you be woven if not in my web of kind, pure loving for I shall weave, but not leave for this my web, it is my haven there dear, some more lines for you to have fun with...I gift them to you with smiles.... and now, I get meself back off to work that I brought home with me....mutter mutter.... |
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Marsha
since 2000-07-10
Posts 7423Maidstone Kent England |
Kari love, thank you as always love, and I'll accept your gift with love, lord knows if it will be used as well as you would use it love, but we shall see. Take care love Majestic Marsha Take back the hope you gave,- I claim Only a memory of the same Robert Browning |
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Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Marsha~ Intricate webs of weaving ~ Sometimes catch others in deceiving ~ But oh, the joy I've beheld At rapturous capture in the spell of words so softly spun that hold my heart in stuck delight in gentle webbings of the night ~ I'm just a romantic little spider ~ caught up in the web of desire ! Or on second thought ~ maybe I'm hoping to get caught ~ by the teasing weave of the fire ! Love your weave, lovie. ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ noles1@totcon.com |
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jonmcm Member
since 2000-10-11
Posts 222England |
Marsha, I love the closing lines: - "I don’t want to be your little puppet or your pet fool If you let me go now I’ll be able, just, to stand alone But stay longer I’ll become as insubstantial as foam" Even though we often know what is best we so often continue on a course that renders us "insubstantial as foam". It's not so much being "let go", but taking those brave steps, saying, "I'm gone; I'm worth so much more than this!". Thanks Jon |
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Marsha
since 2000-07-10
Posts 7423Maidstone Kent England |
Margie girl, thank you sweetie, me too I'd rather have the romantic web any day. Thanks for everything if it wasn't for you, this wouldn't look half so good. Thanks love Take care love Mushy Jon love, as I said this is a final clearing out of those feelings that do you absolutely no good whatsoever. Onward and upward as the saying goes. Thank you so very much to Take care love Mushy Take back the hope you gave,- I claim Only a memory of the same Robert Browning |
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