To Return Again on Hallow's Eve

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Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

0 posted 2003-10-20 01:33 PM

To Return Again On Hallow’s Eve

Comes this night, just once, each year
his spirit awaits, that she should hear
the voice of her love, then quit her bower
on Hallow’s Eve, at the midnight hour

She’s walked the halls these years long past
her cry a sob in winds so vast
for the one night that she again may meet
the soul for whom her spirit entreats

Her passage this night will take her beyond
the walls of her home, t'ward the pond,
as the moon surges up to black, black skies
to yon meadow’s clearing she shall arrive

Shhh, you can hear her soft and sweet refrain
‘tis tune of Greensleeves she sings again
for her lover sang sweet this, their ballad
as he promised himself to be her true lad

And to him, she was his Lady Greensleeves
she did him no wrong, but was left to grieve
for to war he went, then did not return
he was her love, all others she spurned

But on this Eve, on this Hallowe’d night
past pond and clearing, under pale moonlight
she caught a glimpse, his spirit came ‘round
then followed him, they retrieved her, drowned

So comes this night, just once, each year,
his spirit awaits, that she should hear
the voice of her love, then quit her bower
on Hallow’s Eve, at the midnight hour

Images courtesy Passions in Poetry

mysticpoe
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since 2003-02-28

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1 posted 2003-10-20 02:30 PM

Talented Sunshine, I like this one.

mysticpoe

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then everything is
our thoughts and feelings
and all that exists.

IrishDreamer
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since 2003-10-18

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2 posted 2003-10-20 02:35 PM

ohh I loved this one it gave me chills and what a wonderful picture to go with it.

~Angie

Enchantress
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Canada eh.

3 posted 2003-10-20 03:48 PM

Oooh I love this!
As I read I could hear Greensleeves playing
over and over in my mind...
Lovely....a keeper!
~Hugs~

~Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile~

Earth Angel
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4 posted 2003-10-20 04:00 PM

Alas, my love...Greensleeves playing in my mind's ear, added another dimension to this hauntingly beautiful write.

'Tis the spirit, m'lady!

Linda

vandana

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since 1999-10-22

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5 posted 2003-10-20 04:19 PM

enjoyed

Dark Angel
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6 posted 2003-10-20 05:29 PM

A beautiful and haunting love story.

Well Done Karilea

fate is not just
whose cooking smells good
but which way the wind blows

(Ani DiFranco)

Magnus

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since 2001-10-10

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7 posted 2003-10-24 02:49 PM

On Hallow's Eve, at midnight hour,
his voice she'll hear from the mist.
And from this blooms a luscious flower
for which he bestows and lingering kiss.

Pilgrimage
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since 2001-12-04

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Texas, USA

8 posted 2003-10-24 03:25 PM

How lovely. I got a sad and lonely feeling from this one, but it's so lovely.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

Sunnyone
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since 2000-07-06

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Staffordshire, England

9 posted 2003-10-24 05:04 PM

Oh Karilea, what a hauntingly beautiful creation this is...I can hear her sweet voice singing! You had to know I would love this Halloween tale of love...~S~

Accept these small gifts from my gypsy heart ~S~

Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

10 posted 2003-10-28 08:26 PM

I have some friends in Texas checking this out. I hope that they feel the same as all of you!

Spooky dreams!

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