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0 posted 2005-01-27 05:58 PM




Perhaps, through a fissure in my heart,
A partly opened window of my soul,
Covered in collected lacey memories
So gently lifted in a zephyr’s kiss
That enables her to slip through unnoticed?

So naked am I, on this cold winter’s eve,
Bones chilling to pounding silence,
Darkness enveloping me in searing pain.
This is when she finds me partially singed.

Are there more like me who even will dare
Sip moonlight’s incandescent wine and want more?

In a candle flicker,
She and it become one entity
Whose movements sing songs of warmth,
Illuminating dark passageways of my mind.
I, a participant in these mind games as she,
Shadow dances our night away.

She visits me only when owls seek prey,
When forest sprites dance the night away.
Her suspended illumination gracefully
Dances my room, floating, then,
Finally she surrounds me in unexplainable warmth
By settling into my empty hands
Filling my heart and soul.

I lightly drink of the quiescent spirit held
In these precious cupped and lifted hands,
With a thirst that will never be quenched.
I know she is sighing there in the light,
Knowing hers is the only light I let in
To warm my winter’s soul.

Ah, but perchance,
When evening fades to evermore,
When sprites and spirits tuck themselves in to sleep
Allowing both the living and dead a moment’s peace,
Will I feel her haunted breath,
Only to arise and drink in her light.
I survive living for the night,
To be filled up once more.

~* For Willow *~


The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all art and science.
Albert Einstein

~ Carpe' Diem ~

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1 posted 2005-01-27 06:02 PM


Oh my...This poem is filled with a magical essence that fills the soul with a warm pleasure...Magnificent...

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2 posted 2005-01-27 06:03 PM


Simply amazing. This is one of your best Sharon!
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3 posted 2005-01-27 06:04 PM


the way you write of her... you make me wish I knew her too
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4 posted 2005-01-27 06:25 PM


This is.... VERY nice!

JL


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5 posted 2005-01-27 07:09 PM



My dear friend,

you have written of an unsayable time...
and this well befits Willow's page.

Forevermore.

She is dancing, in pride of her friend.

Love, K

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6 posted 2005-01-27 07:16 PM


Thanks so much everyone.  I am not even sure if these writes are poetry, and certainly not good poetry, but I know one thing that they have to come out, and I cry the entire time I write them.  Doing these is when I wish the most that I had the ability of some in here to collect the right words to just show how much I feel.  Thanks again for reading these for just what they are.  Tender moments in time.
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7 posted 2005-01-27 07:25 PM


I have experienced such beautiful moments as the ones you wrote about, Sharon.     Thank you for sharing.



God bless,

Becka

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Great write!

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9 posted 2005-01-28 07:17 AM


You seem to have captured a moment in time, when earthly reality and the supernatural lose that fuzzy grey line, and for a moment ... all is one, and the mystical becomes tangible.  Beautiful, Sharon.

Best wishes and hugs,
/Kit

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10 posted 2005-01-28 07:25 AM


this took me to a wonderful place...one of peace and tranquility...excellent loving write
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11 posted 2005-01-28 09:27 AM


Sharon

Wishing you many more visitations...for I'm sure she enjoys them as much as you do.  This was so very lovely!!  

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12 posted 2005-01-28 09:28 AM


and I am sure that Willow is smiling dear friend.
Your heart is so very beautiful....

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13 posted 2005-01-28 10:37 AM


simply lovely - delicate - like a moon beam

Susan

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14 posted 2005-01-28 11:56 AM


Though the still of the night
there's no chill in this write


Another warm tribute to a friend whose memories lingers in the pen of one who cared and cares. Enjoyed

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15 posted 2005-01-28 12:02 PM


Beautifully expresed heart warming memories

Hope

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16 posted 2005-01-28 12:35 PM


Thanks everyone - I wish this were true, but sometimes when my bedroom fairy lamps flicker at night my granddaughter thinks she sees fairies dancing on the ceiling, and we always agree has to be Willow.  She will always be missed, always!

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17 posted 2005-01-28 12:36 PM


incredible
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18 posted 2005-01-28 05:17 PM


Yes, doesn't inspiration come from many many wonderfully imaginative and creative sources and I can certainly imagine being so stimulated, as you've expressed here, from moonlight’s incandescent wine... (Sigh) Thank you for sharing. -Bob
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