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Marilyn
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0 posted 2000-05-17 04:16 PM


When I read G.A.'s piece "Misery of Woe" these words flowed as my reply. The piece is rough and it needs some polishing but I was asked to post it on it's own for all of you to enjoy. Thanks Greg for inspiration truely is the life breath of a poet.  

No light pours in through tainted glass
This love of woe has come to pass
Though darkness grows with every hour
My heart does seek the one with power
To shine through darkness baring light
Who fights for me with all their might
Who's love is true and stong and sure
Who loving look is all the cure
and though I wait and though I look
What sun does shine upon this book?
It pages old and worn and sad
But inside all will make you glad
Just take a chance to look inside
For all the wonder it can provide
But many looked for just one page
Some saw two but didn't gage
The life there hidden in the words
The life they sought amoungst the birds
Where song is sung and joy is near
But they just couldn't fight the fear
And so the book with aged face
Forever waits there in it's place.


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 When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shodows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face...

William Butler Yeats


[This message has been edited by Marilyn (edited 05-17-2000).]

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JOY 14
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1 posted 2000-05-17 06:49 PM


I liked the image of the book in its place..just waiting to be picked up by someone who can really see what's between the words.  Good work, Marilyn.  Glad you decided to share this.  I enjoyed it very much!

Joy

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2 posted 2000-05-17 09:59 PM


No light pours through tainted glass....

You have some wonderful lines here, Marilyn. This is very well done.....

Dusk Treader
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3 posted 2000-05-17 10:37 PM


Great poem Marilyn.  I love the metaphor of the book it works so well.  Greatly enjoyed this poem... if this is what you call "rough" I'd like to see polished...

 Abrahm Simons

"You...
You are so special
You have the talent
To make me feel like Dirt" - Alice in Chains, "Dirt"

Isis
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4 posted 2000-05-18 12:00 PM


For someone who doesn't like dark you write it damn well sis of mine!!  Great work hon  

 I'll tell you this...... No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.....
~Isis~
(Goddess - Sovereign of the Spirit)



Christopher
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5 posted 2000-05-18 03:16 AM


I just LOVE it when you're inspired Marilyn! You've a gift lass, keep using it!
Denise
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6 posted 2000-05-18 02:18 PM


Your talent shines brightly in this piece, Marilyn!  

Denise

Cyndey
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7 posted 2000-05-18 02:37 PM


such a lovely poem! I don't think you would need to do much more polishing, sometimes when the raw emotions show through, it is more beautiful than the polished cut stone...
Cyndey  

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8 posted 2000-05-18 03:18 PM


This is a beautiful piece, Marilyn! I really enjoyed it.

 "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." -Oscar Wilde

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