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Timing is Everything
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Timing is Everything |
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Wilfred Yeats Member Elite
since 2000-08-04
Posts 2704Wilmington, Delaware 
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Timing is Everything (Adopted to an previously untitled I was about to post) An you think forward To an (im)possible future What we've yet to realize Will the timing be right The touching We've waited so long for The fantasies Of waking Sharing naked warmth Learning together How we want to be loved Learning together All we've held back Fearing it might not Be accepted That it might be too much For the other to bear Will it come at the right time We're both old enough Experienced enough To have learned Love is not some dream Held deep inside since puberty Rather learned When it hits us Square in the face When we realize It is giving ourselves Totally Oh I hope the timing is right What we've never done Never said Becomes the highest fulfillment We've ever achieved Until now Because we can once again Give ourselves totally To giving Without thought Of what we'll get Men like me Frequently Never get this Education Realization (timing is everything) Most women Seem to be born To surrender Instinctively And then there's That epiphany When we both Give in, give up Totally (Surely it must be timing) Do you remember Did it happen for you Before When you learned Your vulnerability Was no greater Than his Was your timing right Then let us pray We give in Give ourselves up To this That the timing is right We'll speak with eyes Then words Then eyes again Repeating Over and over Learning touches Scents, Sleepy kisses Until familiarity Goes so deep It's all we want All we'll ever want Timing is everything Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes. ~ Chinese Proverb ~ |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
I think the metronome was your muse....a wonderful read.... |
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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
Excellent!! You nailed this one sir!  |
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lucky Senior Member
since 2000-01-17
Posts 1601Idaho |
Bill..! You just stole alot of my words..! And I was really trying too... You guys are just to fast for me. Back to the drawing board... Darn it. PS. On second thought forget it... reading you o'er again I don't see a chance of toping this jewel. Hats off sir. dale [This message has been edited by lucky (edited 02-11-2001).] |
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nakdthoughts Member Laureate
since 2000-10-29
Posts 19200Between the Lines |
What we've never done Never said Becomes the highest fulfillment We've ever achieved Until now Because we can once again Give ourselves totally To giving Without thought Of what we'll get ~sighing Bill...huggzzz for your friendship and hoping that your timing keeps you here forever.. ~Wynter "The worst prison would be a closed heart". ...Pope John Paul II |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Bill--Time is so fickle...sometimes so precise...and sometimes as slow as a hot summer day...but if two souls come together at the same time with love...then it is everything. |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
Most women Seem to be born To surrender Instinctively And then there's That epiphany When we both Give in, give up Totally (Surely it must be timing) ===================== youre on time ... measured by your verse divine... very cool write poet sir adapted...adopted ... you rose to the challenge  Where the touch of the lover ends And the soul of the friend begins There's a need to be separate and a need to be one And a struggle neither wins |
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Wilfred Yeats Member Elite
since 2000-08-04
Posts 2704Wilmington, Delaware |
Karilea- My muse in this case - came from reading a book of Linda Goodman's Poetry - Thanks Sharon- Very high praise to me, coming from a poet of your calibre Thank you. Dale- if making me turn red is your intent - you succeeded - thank you Wynter- (you make me blush too) Thank you so much Martie- Your prose response - is so poetic - and I agree - but you should make it a poem. Janet Marie- Thank you so much - re your signature: "struggle neithr wins..." I think BOTH win~S~ |
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zoe Junior Member
since 2001-02-05
Posts 34 |
like this, very nice run of thoughts hopes and dreams |
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doreen peri Member Elite
since 1999-05-25
Posts 3812Virginia |
"Most women Seem to be born To surrender Instinctively" i think you may be right to a certain degree, but once a woman does surrender instinctively one time and then gets burned and then another and then gets burned again, it's hard to go back to the intrinsic nature of it... y'know? i'm just now learning again... i mean? why not? at least i know what the burn feels like and will recognize it and who knows? might get lucky.... LOL.... good job on this one, bill.... thanks for participating... enjoyed reading your perspective on this |
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Corinne Member Ascendant
since 1999-10-28
Posts 5167state of confusion |
Timing IS everything, perhaps with a wee bit of help from above. Lovely poem, Bill. Corinne |
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Wilfred Yeats Member Elite
since 2000-08-04
Posts 2704Wilmington, Delaware |
zoe - doreen -Corinne- Sometimes my thoughts seem to just fall into place - Thank you (and Doreen- just have faith in your own instincts) |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
"Love is not some dream Held deep inside since puberty Rather learned When it hits us Square in the face When we realize It is giving ourselves Totally" So much truth is packed into those lines... My timing may never have been right... but I hope yours is perfect! *S* |
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Wilfred Yeats Member Elite
since 2000-08-04
Posts 2704Wilmington, Delaware |
suthern- Neither has mine ~sigh~ - thanks for your kind words - and may we both have better luck in future |
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Paula Finn Member Ascendant
since 2000-06-17
Posts 5546missouri |
Timing...sometimes I think we must make our own timing...and damn the price...yet I have no desire to hurt another...so sigh...I wait til the "time" is right... |
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ethome Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858New Brunswick Canada |
Timing is everything when you look at life from every angle...I mean if you didn't go to the mall that day you might not have met that special love of your life...I don't believe in predestination but I do believe in what the Bible says..." that time and unforseen occurences befall all of us".....great write Bill! The poet is like a cocoon; in him the caterpillar of the past finds rest, and from him the butterfly of the future emerges. |
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