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Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

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California

0 posted 2006-12-05 09:22 PM

Half Her Strength

I sit and watch her sleeping, know it’s time that she should wake.
Can’t bring myself to do it o’er the dreams I might forsake.
An angel lay before me in the guise of my own wife.
Dare I disturb the rest she needs bringing rest to my life.

Just how or why she came to me I’ll never understand.
Not a damn thing to offer her except my heart and hand.
The moment frozen in my head to examine at length,
I know I could change the world if I had but half her strength.

But alas, a mortal man, and weak in my endeavor,
The best that I will ever do is to love her forever.
Though in my mind I hold one thought, if selfish in decree,
The outside world might need her… but never as much as me.

So careful not to unsettle the aura of her sleep,
And vowing that today her dreams will be her own to keep…
I brush back her hair; kiss her cheek, and pray God might concur
If for one day, to let me be the strength that carries her.

Michael Anderson

ThisDiamond
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-02-22

Posts 9353
Michigan, USA

1 posted 2006-12-05 09:27 PM

Breathtaking Michael.
TD

Angel4aKing
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since 2006-09-27

Posts 1372
USA

2 posted 2006-12-05 09:36 PM

This is REAL....and that is a good thing....nice to know there is still REAL people out there...take care....

kingsangel

Roniece Dawson-Bruce
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since 2000-01-29

Posts 5689
Sydney, Australia

3 posted 2006-12-05 09:58 PM

Michael, so nice to read you again - and a beautifully written piece of your work too!

RDB

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

4 posted 2006-12-05 10:06 PM

Michael it is so very good to read you once again.
How beautiful this is!

Sing in me muse...
and through me tell the story~

stevepoet
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since 2006-12-02

Posts 46

5 posted 2006-12-05 10:19 PM

I liked this a lot.good rhyming good flow,very nice overall.

Michael

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California

6 posted 2006-12-06 04:31 PM

Thank you all for your kind replies.

serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

7 posted 2006-12-06 05:20 PM

I read this the other night (or was it yesterday--sheesh) but I was so overcome with envy, for both your writing ability and the obvious love you two share.

You make me believe in happy endings...

(Linda--how does it feel to be cherished?)

sigh, pout, and sniffles

absolutely beautiful!

Have a joyous holiday you two. You've got the real deal, the rest is all gravy now.

Pilgrimage
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since 2001-12-04

Posts 3945
Texas, USA

8 posted 2006-12-07 05:07 PM

Michael, that one is tender, and warm, and I love it.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

superlisa
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since 2006-12-04

Posts 2
louisiana.

9 posted 2006-12-07 05:48 PM

nicely written, has poise and you carry your point across well.....
-lisa

Beatrice Boyle
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since 2006-12-06

Posts 438

10 posted 2006-12-07 08:28 PM

This was exquisite Michael...so tender and loving. As a rhyming lover, I just had to read it. (There are so few of us left!)

Grandma Bea

Sunshine

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

11 posted 2006-12-07 09:30 PM

And see....

I've been away too much to realize
that you did, indeed, answer a request
made only moments ago...

hearthugs to you and yours, Michael...

this is beautiful, and libraried...

[because it's a

!]

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

12 posted 2006-12-07 11:31 PM

beautiful

good to read you again

Nightshade

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since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

13 posted 2006-12-07 11:31 PM

Oh, how beautiful is this?!!
Great writing Michael.
Happy Holidays !!

Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles ~

Mysteria

Member Laureate

since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

14 posted 2010-05-27 09:26 PM

I am approaching the last page of reading your poems Michael, and it has been a wonderful experience to read your work. This in particular actually softened my thinking into believing that "happy" is out there somewhere.

I actually was mentioning you to Ron and how much I miss reading your work so thank goodness for these archives.

Best to you all.

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