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Elizabeth Santos
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0 posted 2001-03-10 08:41 AM


Garden of love

Walk into the fields of tranquillity’s bloom
Wildflowers rainbow for hearts to consume
For there is the place where sweet poems are read
Of buttercup yellow and corn poppy red

Stroll into the forest of your make believe
You’ll see all the visions that you have conceived
And I will be witness to your sacred muse
In black elder berries, forget-me-not blues

Come look at the old English garden of dreams
A fantasy landscape more real than it seems
With flowers more lovely than you’d ever think
Of pale yellow primrose and water mint pink

Step gently the pathway through gardens of love
The petals reach out for the light from above
And savor the wetness that fall on their bed
Dahlia and hollyhocks sizzling red

Pure is a love that so subtly grows
In little white snowdrops and white Christmas rose
And blossoms in radiance on life’s fragile brink
of inky blue iris and peony pink

From deeds come the beauty’s reward we have earned
Lavender lilacs, green feathers of fern
It mellows with care and enhances with age
Rosemary lavender, purple of sage

I’ve learned from the splendor, the essence of you
Jasmine of white and delphinium blue
I savor the stories you've written and told
Dark wine-purple lupines and gold marigold

The joy and the light of my morning is you
White Shasta daisies, bluebonnets of blue
You are my garden of love, so it seems
Soft blue wisteria creeping into my dreams

Elizabeth Santos


© Copyright 2001 Elizabeth Santos - All Rights Reserved
Kit McCallum
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1 posted 2001-03-10 08:47 AM


Oh Liz ... your words just simply dance through my mind. An exceptional flow with positively wonderful meter and rhyme! This is absolutely delightful my friend, thank you for these wonderful visions this morning!

Best wishes,
/Kit

Toerag
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2 posted 2001-03-10 08:47 AM


As usual Lizzie...such a talent...yanno, I wrote piddlin' at gigglin' for you?......Though not nearly, (actually, not even in the same league as your stuff), I do enjoy writing and playing...(mostly playing), you're such a talent though gal...hope you're doin' well....
Sunshine
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3 posted 2001-03-10 08:54 AM


Thank you for this, Lady Santos....much needed today....a most lovely stroll....
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4 posted 2001-03-10 09:25 AM


Thanks for the little tour,it was lovely

Don't ever give in, if you do you've lost everything you've ever had and everything you hope to gain, but if you carry on your already winning.


Denise
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5 posted 2001-03-10 12:26 PM


We certainly have a lovely garden to stroll through, don't we! You have added much beauty to the garden with your lovely verses! This is breathtakingly beautiful, Elizabeth!
Wilfred Yeats
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6 posted 2001-03-10 12:31 PM


your talent with such poetry is unexcelled - I dream of such a garden - I think I'd never leave
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7 posted 2001-03-10 12:58 PM


ElizabethSantos!
This is just magical !
The loveliest stroll I've taken for a while.
Thank you, dearest poet lady.
~*Marge*~


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JamesMichael
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8 posted 2001-03-10 01:15 PM


So nice...James
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9 posted 2001-03-10 02:09 PM


Dear Elizabeth: You have such a gift with words! I can't read enough of your poetry.
This is truly lovely.

Betty Lou Hebert

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10 posted 2001-03-10 02:14 PM


So enjoyable!
Truely magical!


~*Peachy Be*~

Joyce Johnson
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11 posted 2001-03-11 10:36 PM


Dear Elizabeth, I don't know how I missed this when it was on earlier. It is a lovely poem about a lovely subject. Good work. Joyce
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