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Ulysses
Junior Member

since 2007-09-20

Posts 10

0 posted 2007-09-20 06:02 PM

In Another Life...

In another life I hold your hand, and gaze across that moonlit bay;
Where once we stood, in years gone by, constrained to go our separate way,
So much unspoken, so much unsaid;
So much left locked within my head.
And yet the memory returns, and every moonlit night it yearns,
To see your face again, unspurned;
In another life…

In another life I speak the words I longed to say an age ago;
When interrupted love lay churned by circumstantial vertigo,
And cruel fate and angels wings;
Took precedence o’er tender things.
And yet I saw you in my dreams, and hot tears cleansed internal screams,
To hear your voice again, redeemed,
In another life…

In another life I kiss your lips, and hold you trembling in my arms;
Where worlds ago you only knew the penning of this wordsmith’s charms,
Internal longings, whose external sweet;
Would ne’er be tasted, ne’er complete.
And yet I held as underpriced, the hope of our once promised tryst,
To kiss your lips, two hearts now spliced,
In another life…

In another life I wait for you, my secret heart, my summer’s sun;
To finish what a life ago this unexpected love begun,
And Ulysses forever lost,
Forever found, the threshold crossed;
Shall live under Italian skies, and feel the searchings of your eyes,
And wait for you, no more goodbyes;
In another life…

Written about a summer love that could never be; but whose participants vowed to meet 'in another life' before their lives became so complicated.

[This message has been edited by Ulysses (09-21-2007 04:37 AM).]

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

1 posted 2007-09-20 06:27 PM

quote:
In another life I wait for you, my secret heart, my summer’s sun;
To finish what a life ago this unexpected love begun,
And Ulysses forever lost,
Forever found, no more storm tossed;
Shall live under Italian skies, and feel the searchings of your eyes,
And wait for you, no more goodbyes;
In another life…

Welcome to Pip, Ulysses!

This is a beautiful melancholic write. There is a nice rhythm in it.

Love,
Margherita

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

2 posted 2007-09-20 10:45 PM

Ulysses

Welcome to Passions!

I know first hand of first loves
that had to go decades
before their own destiny
could become true...

One never knows
what the fates hold...

Please...

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" It matters not this distance now " Excerpt, Yesterday's Love
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Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

3 posted 2007-09-21 12:55 PM

Hi Ulysses.
Welcome to the site, I am fairly new myself.
I don't usually like poems about lost love, they are just too sappy for me but I like this one. Hope to see more of your poetry.

Ulysses
Junior Member

since 2007-09-20

Posts 10

4 posted 2007-09-21 04:50 AM

Thanks so much for your kind words folks. Real poetry isn't a science, it's a living, breathing, precious thing, and your comments have given me the courage to continue posting. Thankx

latearrival
Member Ascendant

since 2003-03-21

Posts 5499
Florida

5 posted 2007-09-21 05:29 AM

Welcome, I think we all have a secret life, albeit wistful. good work. "late"

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

6 posted 2007-09-21 06:30 AM

Enjoyed...also reminded me of a love letter that a man sent my ex-wife explaining that he was married with a family and did not intend to leave his family to continue his relationship with her, but in another life perhaps they could have been together...James

A Romantic Heart
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since 1999-09-03

Posts 5496
Forever In Your Heart