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RMW
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since 2001-03-21
Posts 1424


0 posted 2001-11-27 10:08 AM


Zhivago

Most write of love as though their heart
were but a garden
subject to the errant weed
but otherwise kept
by the seasonal application of interest
as in the spring
when delicate hands glove
to shovel compost.
To them
pain comes silently into the palm,
a blister, that, upon return to the kitchen,
yields to ointment.
They never learn
the howling of this winter steppe;
the shudder when the ice breaks
beneath the weight of desire;
the catch of breath
when from a distant line of trees
a wolf leaps
into the moonstruck.

RMW

[This message has been edited by RMW (edited 11-27-2001).]

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Sunshine
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Listening to every heart
1 posted 2001-11-27 10:10 AM



Sir, you took a name from my past and made it come alive again...and brought with it the winter landscape and the music of yesterday...

thank you again...

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Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-06
Posts 8369
Deep in the heart
2 posted 2001-11-27 11:43 AM


Brilliant my friend!  This has GOT to be one of your very finest works

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

Irish Rose
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since 2000-04-06
Posts 10263

3 posted 2001-11-27 11:58 AM


A masterpiece.  This is a masterpiece.  Every line.  I mean it.  This is priceless.

Kathleen (Kay)
"When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass, and the sun drips honey."
Laurie Lee

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113
Canada eh.
4 posted 2001-11-27 12:17 PM


And, as I read, haunting strains of Lara's Theme played ever so gently in my mind.  I could see the ice and snow beautifully.. clearly!  This is a keeper!

Oh...did I say I enjoyed this?  
Very much so!
hugs, Nancy.

~Time has cast a spell on you,
  So you won't ever forget me~

Corinne
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since 1999-10-28
Posts 5167
state of confusion
5 posted 2001-11-27 03:38 PM


Very lovely.

Cor

Startime
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since 2000-10-03
Posts 5918
Canada
6 posted 2001-11-27 03:44 PM


*sigh**sigh* what can I say....this one captures a star and holds me moonstruck. Magnificent. **hugs**

Love I leave with you whether it is in your life now or yet the essense of your dreams.

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