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Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

0 posted 2004-10-27 01:41 PM

Sunlight had danced across water
And for hours we had drifted
Letting current take us a lazy days path
To where we camped

As you decided to cook
I pulled the old leather book from my pack
And began to write

“I traced the curve of her lip
with one finger
as she looked through half closed eyes
at something beyond my own visage
and wondered at the things she
might see...

her sigh halted my touch
just as it was finding
mouths corner and my own lips
begged me to taste
her breath

the smile she gave me
was real
  but she was still somewhere
beyond the veil of now

Living perhaps another love
  or remembering how it once was with her
free and wild...
            lonely child
lost....

and I
         touched her mouth again

and added my own small smile

for any part of her she shared
was enough to make me know
the depths inside were there
  some,
     she might never
                       show”

You looked over my shoulder
As I wrote the last words
Asked to see it all
And I just laughed

“Someday perhaps.”
“For now, just understand”

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

1 posted 2004-10-27 01:43 PM

“Someday perhaps.”
“For now, just understand”

~*~

On several levels
this suits me just fine.

muted

Member Elite

since 2004-01-15

Posts 2949
Elapsing, Eclipsing, Evolving

2 posted 2004-10-27 01:45 PM

leaves me smiling as well

Gentle Spirit
Member Patricius

since 2000-10-09

Posts 13989

3 posted 2004-10-27 01:52 PM

You looked over my shoulder
As I wrote the last words
Asked to see it all
And I just laughed

“Someday perhaps.”
“For now, just understand”

Yes someday perhaps...but for now, I will just smile...

babygirlwlove
Senior Member

since 2004-10-10

Posts 1180
New York City

4 posted 2004-10-27 02:51 PM

message in a bottle...

love the way
your mind works, chief...

**babygirL**

**Intoxicant to the SouL**

Susan
Member Ascendant

since 2004-03-27

Posts 5104
walking the surreal

5 posted 2004-10-27 09:24 PM

I sat there with you in that moment and felt the heart - lovely -

Susan

Happiness isn't something that happens to you, it's created from within you. Joy is a state of mind.

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

6 posted 2004-10-27 09:33 PM

quote:
for any part of her she shared
was enough to make me know
the depths inside were there
  some,
     she might never
                       show”

Ron, for me, that part could stand on its own
it's such a tender expression of acceptance and understanding.

Alicia
Member

since 2002-03-22

Posts 279

7 posted 2004-10-28 12:30 PM

and so there. yes. catalogued/printed somehow would be lovely,
for now i'll bite what lines you lay in these blue waters still.
just,...lovely, /human/ writes. does that make sense? ~a.

Dark Angel
Member Patricius

since 1999-08-04

Posts 10095

8 posted 2004-10-28 06:11 PM

for any part of her she shared
was enough to make me know
the depths inside were there
  some,
     she might never
                       show”

Smiling at this knowing.

you make me sigh, have I told you that before?

keeping this.

Mxx

and I am haunted
by my illicit exquisite dream
but I can't really wake up
so I just drift in between

~ani difranco~

Martie

Moderator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

9 posted 2004-10-28 07:11 PM

Ron

“Someday perhaps.”
“For now, just understand”

The reward for accepting and acceptance is the pleasure these two give to eachother. A lovely poem!

Juju
Member Elite

since 2003-12-29

Posts 3429
In your dreams

10 posted 2004-10-28 09:54 PM

This is why I am never gonna date a poet

It's bad enough I am deep behind a superficial mask

Juju

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