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Elizabeth Santos
Member Rara Avis

since 1999-11-08

Posts 9269
Pennsylvania

0 posted 2001-08-10 08:30 AM

Artificial Moon

One night I sat in glowing light
My face a ghostly guise
Reflecting from a screen of white
Which stared into my eyes

An iridescence fell upon
The smoothness of my hand
White fingers tapped on waiting keys
Which laid in my command

A lonely sight, this opal face
In artificial beams
Which took the moon’s romantic place
In visions of my dreams

My heartbeat’s throb was never heard
Nor thoughts that slowly fed
The fountains of unspoken words
That gathered in my head

Just I alone with glassy moon
And fingertips of white
Which clicked the moments, breaking gloom
And silence of the night

How could a monitor entrance
A dreamer such as I
Who only ever sought romance
In depths of starry sky

Somehow the artificial moon
Had opened up a world
Of other hearts whom it consumed
As poetry unfurled

And so the plastic came alive
The glassy phrases spoke
My ghostly face would well survive
The barriers it broke

My intimate and dearest thought
In verses flowed with ease
As visions danced in poems wrought
By tapping of the keys

In dark of night I found a dream
Unseen in starry skies
For you appeared upon the screen
And flashed into my eyes

I read the poetry that tapped
From out your midnight room
With phrases I was warmly wrapped
In silver lighted moon

Elizabeth Santos

[This message has been edited by Elizabeth Santos (edited 08-10-2001).]

Seymour Tabin
Member Empyrean

since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

1 posted 2001-08-10 08:34 AM

Elizabeth,
Your the best, exquisite. Love Sy

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

2 posted 2001-08-10 08:52 AM

What a treasure for all who cannot escape their confines, but have opened their hearts and minds, nevertheless...

Well done, Lady Santos!

Honeybee
Member Ascendant

since 1999-12-26

Posts 5372
Ontario, CANADA

3 posted 2001-08-10 10:07 AM

Liz, I love this, as usual you write with such eloquence

This one's for my library

Melissa~

"Poetry is not an opinion expressed...
it is a song that rises from a bleeding
wound...or a smiling mouth"

~Kahlil Gibran~

Marge Tindal

Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

4 posted 2001-08-10 12:49 PM

SweetElizabeth~
You make it all come alive ! !
I love your imagination~
Such delightful thoughts you share with us all.
I'm awfully pleased to know you, poet~
~*Marge*~

~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
noles1@totcon.com

Sven

Member Laureate

since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

5 posted 2001-08-10 01:03 PM

and the moon continues to shine. . .

wonderful Liz. . .

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rwood
Member Elite

since 2000-02-29

Posts 3793
Tennessee

6 posted 2001-08-10 10:27 PM

Mystical beauty, and quite exquisite flow. Enjoyed so much!
Sincerely,
Regina

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