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RMW
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0 posted 2001-10-09 10:08 AM


Virga

I feel the mist within your look;
The cant of interest;
The way your eyes pretend to want
Nothing at all
Yet still approach
As do the wisps of a summer's rain
Slanting over the ocean's surface.
I know, by choice, the desert's pain;
Silent, close, relinquishing
What most insist is necessary.
Vacant?
Yes,
But in a way that I can see
The face of longing,
A thirst for beauty.

RMW

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1 posted 2001-10-09 10:11 AM



I am not aware of what Virga means, but the body of the poem is wonderful...so its title must mean something very, very special...

RMW
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2 posted 2001-10-09 10:14 AM


Sunshine...."Virga: trailing wisps of precipitation evaporating before they reach the ground". Thanks for reading. Bob
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3 posted 2001-10-09 10:22 AM


Bob--You write with such a poignant pen, so softly sad and alone, yet still the observer, you see beauty.  Wonderful poem!
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4 posted 2001-10-10 11:45 AM


Bob, your writing does not resemble virga, rather it is like a downpour of thought provoking words.  Well done, again, my friend.

Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart and write.

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5 posted 2001-10-10 12:21 PM


This poem was wonderful too.  I will keep it in my library. Thanks
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6 posted 2001-10-10 04:48 PM


Ya know, I was gonna leave it alone, but I can't help letting you know that everytime I see the title of your poem, I think "Viagra"

It's a perfect poem, don't change a thing, its just me I'm worried about...LOL

RMW
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7 posted 2001-10-10 04:53 PM


Apachecat.....chuckle. It never occurred to me. Laughing. Bob
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8 posted 2001-10-10 06:29 PM


Bob, have to admit it was the title that pulled me in first.  (I too thought it said Viagra, as I quickly, I guess too quickly, scanned the blue page of titles.)  Think I should have my eyes checked.  At any rate as I read down the lines I realized just how beautiful this poem is...and I do love this style.  
~hugs, NancyLee~

~I've loved you forever, in lifetimes before.~
  

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9 posted 2001-10-10 06:33 PM


Ahhh... Robere

This poem touches me deeply as I'm sure you knew it would...

Beautifully written...

*hugs*

~Tier

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10 posted 2001-10-10 08:37 PM


I love the way that you can take an ordinary word. . . and make it sing. . .

well done Sir. . .  

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