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Auguste
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By the sea

0 posted 2001-04-01 04:08 PM


Refresh Me


There were tears
within the
summer rains of youth.

So pleased I was
to see them concealed in
heaven's moisture,
that none would know them.

Too many storms
would cross the days of truth,
as thunder
boiled, snarled, threatened.

Cracked and chipped,
I am a
vase
of many words.

A flower in need of
water
and what is left,
grown stagnant.

Summer rains,
return
and freshen what is me.

Though petals fallen,
still left
are buds that long to blossom.

Proust-
"Love is space and time measured by the heart"

© Copyright 2001 Michael Auguste - All Rights Reserved
Mabel A. Dilley
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1 posted 2001-04-01 04:21 PM


Very simply: this took my breath away. Such wonderful imagery. Such excellent writing.

"I am not now that which I have been."

VAS
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2 posted 2001-04-01 04:37 PM


This is superb.  It is beginning a message of the heart in me.  I must escape just now, and allow it to unfold.  The heart of your muse, in me, has taken hold.
Marge Tindal
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3 posted 2001-04-01 04:39 PM


Michael~
This is heartbreakingly stunning.

'Though petals fallen,
still left
are buds that long to blossom.'


~*Marge*~

~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
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Lone Wolf
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4 posted 2001-04-01 05:33 PM


Hauntingly beautiful.  Nice imagery and writing.  

LW

Poetry should surprise by fine excess...it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts and appear almost a remembrance. -J.Keats

Martie
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5 posted 2001-04-01 08:52 PM


Michael--I like the way you used nature with emotion...well done, my friend.
Suetang
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6 posted 2001-04-01 10:09 PM


So very beautiful Michael, from such a lovely soul.  Thank you.....Sue

Suetang

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