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Parker
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0 posted 2002-01-12 12:58 PM


Dearest Love

Curious the song of night
So sweet the silent melody
Feathers of the angels fall
Rejoiced in winters harmony

Northern winds a chilling breath
Freeze tears of sorrows burden
The cloaked one’s reaching hand
Removes the darkened Curtin

Death will sing a souls release
The song of winter’s lament
Although the shadow of a heart
Is frozen in loves regrets

I’ve knelt before upon this ground
Where sleeps a fallen dove
And winters cold will never numb
This ache my dearest, dearest love.

James Parker Haley Jan 12, 2002


*** sometimes the poetry is about the POEM not the POET ***

© Copyright 2002 James Haley - All Rights Reserved
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1 posted 2002-01-12 01:02 PM




(tears fall down my cheeks) So very sad, sweet friend, such regrets and sorrows fill these words of lost love! (big hugggsssss) Wings can be broken, but broken wings will always mend in time, and the dove of a lovers heart will fly again! (sigh) You are soooooo romantic, sweet friend, this is sad but very beautiful! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet James, thank you for sharing!



May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

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2 posted 2002-01-12 01:50 PM


Oh yes, I can feel the sadness ringing in here. The angel wings are not broken, they are just in need of some spiritual healing to continue to fly! (HUGS)

RP

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3 posted 2002-01-12 01:55 PM


*sigh* your pain of loss flows like tears in this beautiful poem to the one you love...Her memory will always make her your dearest, dearest love...My heart goes out to you. **big hugs**

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

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4 posted 2002-01-12 02:04 PM


Thank you for your replies. But if you notice my signature you'll guess that this is just a poem. Sometimes the writing is about the poetry and not about the poet at all. As in this case.
Just an attempt to let a poem go where it will and capture the message it needs to write. I have never experienced this situation, and just want to express what I feel it may feel like.

Parker

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5 posted 2002-01-12 02:16 PM


Excellent writing Parker...James
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6 posted 2002-01-12 02:20 PM


Hey Handsome....

making me sigh today.....too bad I can't hear you say this.... mmmmmmmm
love it when you recite your poetry....
this is fantastic

with all that you are...
with all that you know...
love......

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7 posted 2002-01-12 02:24 PM


Outstanding writing.  My compliments to your talent, Parker.  
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8 posted 2002-01-12 07:16 PM


This is a beautiful display of your talents James and a perfect example of letting the poem take you where it may. I think that sometimes the best poetry a poet can write is when we simply allow our pens to go where they may.

Me

It is a blessing to have wings for words and passion in pen.


Marina Crossley



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9 posted 2002-01-12 07:19 PM


Parker....just to let you know I was here, read, and thoroughly enjoyed this poem today.
~Hugs, Nancy~

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

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10 posted 2002-01-13 10:32 AM


                    Curious the song of night
                    So sweet the silent melody
                    Feathers of the angels fall
                    Rejoiced in winters harmony

                    ================================

                    Death will sing a souls release
                    The song of winter’s lament
                    Although the shadow of a heart
                    Is frozen in loves regrets
============================================


You mean some poets dont actually DO everything we write about?????
well who knew??? Well I'll be d*****.... (yes I will)    ROFL
Ok..seriously now...to this poem....P-man...the fact that when others read this and
it evoked such emotion speaks to your talent as a writer and the power behind your words....this is classic Parker poetry...superb imagery, masterful poetic phrasing and vocabulary as well as expression of emotion and all these gifts of your pen are tied up in a bow of your impressive mastery of meter and cadence...
this read like lyric ...this is a melancholy, melodic beauty...I love haunted chilling edge you wrote this from ... Come in out of the cold sweet tease...I'll make ya some tea  

Even thru the darkest phase, be it thick or thin
Always someone marches brave, here beneath my skin
Constant Craving ... has always been.

[This message has been edited by Janet Marie (01-13-2002 10:34 AM).]

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11 posted 2002-01-13 10:34 AM



Parker, you never do lose the touch, do you...simply wonderful...

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12 posted 2002-01-13 10:37 AM


Good cadence.  Good images.   Good poem!
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13 posted 2002-01-13 11:45 AM


You've captured the feeling well, James. Well done.
Parker
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14 posted 2002-01-13 12:10 PM


JamesMichael, thank you.

SEA, thank you sweety. I can't seem to get the software to work properly....  

Sunset, thank you.

Marina, thank you.... I do agree. Sometimes one line changes the direction of the poem, and death and romance join to complete the message. Its too easy for a reader to believe a poem is about the author if written in the first person perspective.  
Of course I get a lot of hugs that way.

Enchantress, thank glad you did.

Janet, thank you... are you trying to make fun of me. Cause if so I'd put you over my knee for just such a thing.... Well, I'd do it for the tea too.

Sunshine, thank you kind lady.

Canuckster, thanks very much.

Denise, thank you.

Parker




Dee
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15 posted 2002-01-13 04:08 PM


Hi Park, well letting this one go where it wants to worked well Sad and, as usual, beautiful.
Dee

I wish you every happiness and may you always have the best of the good things in life.     a brand

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