"i will always come again..."

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klm
Member

since 2004-09-07

Posts 58
New Orleans, Atlanta

0 posted 2004-10-17 03:04 PM

"darling,

i have come again
to read the words
of your remembrance,
and to tell you,
'i will always love you'
even as you lay beneath
the green clad soil,
where i hope
all is soft and cool,
and where the very nature
of your resting bed
must be sweet silence.
and i trust
my tears' slender fingers
will seep to wet your lips,
and give you strength
to part your clutching cloak,
so you can tap
the arch of death's thin shell
until your life
is birthed anew.

"and i promise you,
'i will always come again'
and walk this lonely lane,
until your roses shy
in my passing shadow."

babygirlwlove
Senior Member

since 2004-10-10

Posts 1180
New York City

1 posted 2004-10-17 03:49 PM

intimate & haunting...

"my tears' slender fingers
will seep to wet your lips,
and give you strength"

::gave me chills::

good chills..

**babygirL**

Larry C

Member Patricius

since 2001-09-10

Posts 10286
United States

2 posted 2004-10-17 03:55 PM

klm,
Wow. This is an incredible write. Love passionately displayed in the face of grief and loss. I really like this piece. Very well done.

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

3 posted 2004-10-17 04:24 PM

Such a beautiful yet hauntingly sad write..
well done.
Hugs~

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

ThisDiamond
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-02-22

Posts 9353
Michigan, USA

4 posted 2004-10-17 08:50 PM

I have read this poem several times before I could respond. It brought me to tears.
Such love conveyed here.
TD

Huan Yi
Member Ascendant

since 2004-10-12

Posts 6688
Waukegan

5 posted 2004-10-17 08:59 PM

Reconciliation

The earth sang for you
and now sings to me
the same song, but with an
April additive. Yours was the lost
riverlet, deep under the hill and the snow.

It comes out alright—later.
For me there is another stanza,
a staying song that breaks
open under my feet, summering
promises for the kind of June
you wanted but which hadn’t yet arrived.

But you will weather the change,
coming out of your fall
to track the fur of winter over
my lawn. If this sun holds, a new forest
will rise to bless us where we stand . . .

Ruth N. Ebberts

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

6 posted 2004-10-17 09:05 PM

very touching
beautiful

Paula Finn
Member Ascendant

since 2000-06-17

Posts 5546
missouri

7 posted 2004-10-18 12:00 PM

I am very sorry for your loss. I know you grieve for your wife, yet she lives on in your poetry. Beautiful.

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