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Elizabeth Santos
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0 posted 2001-08-06 08:57 AM



Love is Only Mortal

All my heart can hold within it’s fragrant garden wall
Would never fit the measure of my love
For sentiment is only but a petal’s weight of all
The wealth that was bestowed me from above

Love is only mortal, just the same as you and I
And will not last the ages of the sea
Dimensions of it’s glory is an awe that mystifies
And cannot be expressed by you or me

Except to say that while it blooms beneath the crimson skies
My love for you is an infinity

Elizabeth Santos

[This message has been edited by Elizabeth Santos (edited 08-06-2001).]

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Janet Marie
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1 posted 2001-08-06 09:04 AM


All my heart can hold within it’s fragrant garden wall
Would never fit the measure of my love
For sentiment is only but a petal’s weight of all
The wealth that was bestowed me from above
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this is BEAUTIFUL....
the poetic phrasing you chose...and the imagery are simply lovely...
and the romantic sentiments are pure poetry.
wonderful, inspired writing Liz  

wont you sing me your poetry
wont you take me to your home
wont you be for me forever
so Ill never be alone
youre my dream, its a beautiful thing

Sunnyone
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2 posted 2001-08-06 09:11 AM


Oh, how beautifully you capture the qualities of love.....so perfect, and complete.....thank you for putting this here for my eyes and heart to feast on!  

The road goes on forever, and the stories never end...
  
    


Nan
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3 posted 2001-08-06 09:21 AM


Sounds like forever to me...
Sunshine
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4 posted 2001-08-06 09:24 AM



Perhaps one of the shorter of your beautiful writings, but with as much impact as ever...well done, Lady Santos...

illusion
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5 posted 2001-08-06 10:21 AM


This is beautiful and so very romantic.  
Ariana
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6 posted 2001-08-06 10:47 AM


Elizabeth

You have captured it all and your words are so beautiful.  Thank you for sharing.

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Deep in the heart
7 posted 2001-08-06 11:39 AM


my infinite love
I try to show finitely
as we mortals do

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Irish Rose
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8 posted 2001-08-06 11:48 AM


this is very, very moving, especially the last two lines, they really got to me.

" I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be" George William Curtis"

Kay

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9 posted 2001-08-06 06:48 PM


love exists. . . that is all. . .

wonderfully done my friend. . .

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To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world.

Martie
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10 posted 2001-08-06 07:02 PM


Liz--this is such a delight to read.  I never thought of love that way, but you're right..it is mortal, and I for one am glad to have it while I can.

(maybe one day we'll find that love IS eternal--hope so!)

MyEnchanted_Melody
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across the land of dreams. In your heart, I'd always be.
11 posted 2001-08-06 07:12 PM




"Love is only mortal"

As we are........and I hope that would suffice.....for a lifetime.....

I enjoyed it alot.....

Thank you
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