I'm new here. Hello everyone! Here's a poem too. I hope you like it.

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Kevo
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since 2004-06-02

Posts 466
Navarro County, Texas, USA

0 posted 2004-06-05 12:23 PM

Greetings and salutations to everyone. I am glad to be here among you...I think. This is my first post and I hope you like it. I hope this finds everyone in good spirits. I hope to contribute often here. Thank you for allowing me to enter and post. I attached a poem below. I hope you like it and will receive any replies/criticism warmly.

Your poetic friend,

Kevin

Goodbye

Faces...fleeting memories.
Faded...amidst a canvas
of nameless souls passed.
...All but forgotten.
The shadows have drawn
this curtain closed.

Family, and dear friends
nearer to my blood,
forget not your brother,
nor your humble son,
in this principled parting.

Lament not,
but that I am reconciled
in your divine consolation
in hearty spirit.

My sons, weep not for me
rather smile your child's smile for me.
Fear not this woeful walk away
for tis not with malice that I surrender
my body to the toils of betterment,
but for the treasured life due upon you
and your beloved mother.

And to you, my love,
who waits with the wind
for my wanting return,
bide this time lost
with the bittersweet taste
of my parting passion's kiss.

Oh, the desire
that burns upon my breast,
To bestow upon you and my sons,
all of my dreams for you.

Chance in sight.
...Justified resolve.
I take my leave of you
if only for a while.
Copyright, Kevin V. Reese, 2004

Sadelite
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since 2003-10-11

Posts 2519

1 posted 2004-06-05 12:29 PM

Welcome with a capital W, Kevo. That's a pretty incredible piece of writing! It's amazing how smoothly you made transitions from one person to another, shedding light upon all. A sad, but beautiful poem.

Sadelite (Sadie)

Kevo
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since 2004-06-02

Posts 466
Navarro County, Texas, USA

2 posted 2004-06-05 12:35 PM

Thank you Sadie. I sincerely appreciate your reply and welcoming reply. This seems like a great forum in which to share.

Kevin

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

3 posted 2004-06-05 12:40 PM

Enjoyed...James

iliana
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since 2003-12-05

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USA

4 posted 2004-06-05 12:41 PM

Welcome to PIP, Kevin. Your first poem was really great. Hope you enjoy this site as much as I have.

icebox
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in the shadows

5 posted 2004-06-05 12:46 PM

Welcome to PiP!

I enjoyed the transitions in this poem.

ThisDiamond
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6 posted 2004-06-05 01:16 AM

Welcome to Passions.
ThisDiamond

MGROVES

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california

7 posted 2004-06-05 01:25 AM

welcome to passions, this was really good, cant wait to see more

A Romantic Heart
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Forever In Your Heart

8 posted 2004-06-05 01:33 AM

~WELCOME!!!~
Thanks for sharing your heart and soul~

The kingdom of poets welcomes you,
Glad tidings I bid to thee!

~You share your humble heart well~

Glad to share your food of thought, what more might ye bring to thy table to feast upon?

Let our hearts hunger no more, but be filled with your poetic musings!

~I will see you in the forest of Dreams!
~ARH

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.They must be felt with the heart."~Helen Keller (1880-1968)

*Belabebeautiful*

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since 2003-01-03

Posts 696
washington, USA

9 posted 2004-06-05 01:43 AM

welcome to pip! I hope you make yourself right at home here. This was a very captivating first piece, openly sad and wistfull yet hopefull at the same time. Very nicely done.
~Live and Laugh~

The memories are worth the pain when the happiness is outweighs the sorrow
~Bella~

Dark Kisses
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since 2001-06-24

Posts 364
Flat lands of Kansas

10 posted 2004-06-05 02:15 AM

Welcome!!!

A friend, like a candle, is most needed in the darkness.

Midnitesun

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Gaia

11 posted 2004-06-05 02:19 AM

WELCOME Kevin.
Parting is (not-so)sweet sorrow, so please
don't part.

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

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displaced

12 posted 2004-06-05 02:50 AM

hi Kevin...glad you have come

make yourself at home

Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

13 posted 2004-06-07 09:11 AM

Yep...going to enjoy reading you.
Please check your e-mail
for a special Passions Greeting!

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

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Canada eh.

14 posted 2004-06-07 09:14 AM

WELCOME TO PASSIONS!
Very much enjoyed your first post!
~Smiles & Hugs, Nancy~

~Somewhere in my heart I'm always
Dancing with you in the summer rain~

Seymour Tabin
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Tamarac Fla

15 posted 2004-06-07 09:22 AM

Kevo
Welcome and enjoyed the write.

Nightshade

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just out of reach

16 posted 2004-06-07 09:43 AM

Marge Tindal

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Florida's Foreverly Shores

17 posted 2004-06-07 12:37 PM

Kevin~
A talented write ... a most enjoyable read~

Welcome to PiP~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram <))><

noles1@totcon.com

Kit McCallum

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Ontario, Canada

18 posted 2004-06-07 12:54 PM

Kevin, I'm so glad to see you're posting!

This was absolutely lovely. The flow was very smooth, and the sentiments were heartwarming. I really enjoyed this.

Welcome to Passions!

Best wishes,
/Kit

Titia Geertman
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since 2001-05-07

Posts 5182
Netherlands

19 posted 2004-06-07 12:57 PM

Hi Kevo,

Welcome to the family of blue page poetry called PIP. I really enjoyed your first poem.
Some might say it's a sad poem, it may be so, but the main message that came across to me is the one of Love.

And don't pay attention to my grammar, I'm a Dutchie

Titia

Like scattered leaves...my words will flow

Endlessecho
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since 2003-09-05

Posts 398
I live within myself

20 posted 2004-06-07 02:00 PM

Welcome Kevin! I must agree with everyone.

Your first post was wonderful and I look forward to reading more of your works.

Jessica

Susan
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since 2004-03-27

Posts 5104
walking the surreal

21 posted 2004-06-07 09:54 PM

Just came upon this. What a loving and lovely write. Enjoyed. And belated Welcome.

Susan

The whole of the Universe resides within each individual heart.

steavenr
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since 2003-11-17

Posts 4058

22 posted 2004-06-07 10:35 PM

an excellent first post...welcome to PiP...my favorite part was

"And to you, my love,
who waits with the wind
for my wanting return,
bide this time lost
with the bittersweet taste
of my parting passion's kiss."

that stanza is superb

Aenimal
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since 2002-11-18

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the ass-end of space

23 posted 2004-06-07 10:37 PM

welcome kevo, a fine entrance and welcome addition to Pip

El_Campeador
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since 2003-01-29

Posts 761
Ohio, USA

24 posted 2004-06-10 06:38 PM

Welcome, Kevin. Great poem, thank you for sharing it.

“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” –Robert Louis Stevenson

Kevo
Member

since 2004-06-02

Posts 466
Navarro County, Texas, USA

25 posted 2004-06-10 06:46 PM

I wanted to thank everyone that replied for your kind words of encouragement and for the warm welcome I received from so many. I look forward to a continued relationship with you all.

Warm regards,

Kevin

garysgirl

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since 2002-09-29

Posts 19237
Florida, USA

26 posted 2004-06-10 07:45 PM

Hello Kevin, and welcome to Passions. I think
you are going to fit in very well here.
Enjoy yourself.

Hugs,
Ethel

Larry C

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since 2001-09-10

Posts 10286
United States

27 posted 2004-06-10 09:15 PM

Kevin,
A wonderful opening salvo! And look at all the original stuff you've already posted. Seems you found a home. Hope you still love it. It's a wonderful place. Excellent write. Here's to many more.

If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again.

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