Asleep In Love (number of years old but still 'love' to me)

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Open Poetry #43

Asleep In Love (number of years old but still 'love' to me)

jwesley
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since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

0 posted 2008-12-11 01:28 PM

Asleep In Love

In the quiet,
after breathless rapture,
with you slick upon my skin,
your lips a tingling memory on my own,
when nothing but pounding hearts is heard...
you loosely hold my hand,
and I fall asleep...
in Love.

w. james beard, jr.
© nov 2002

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

1 posted 2008-12-11 04:24 PM

This is a wonderfully romantic piece, Jimmy.

Margherita
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since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

2 posted 2008-12-11 07:02 PM

Dear Jimmy, this is the perfect dream of lovers!

Delightful!

Love,
Margherita

steavenr
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since 2003-11-17

Posts 4058

3 posted 2008-12-11 09:03 PM

a lovely dreamscape of love...nicely done

Alison

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since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

4 posted 2008-12-13 01:29 AM

and, Jimmy, I love this poem.

Alison

Susan Caldwell
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since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

5 posted 2008-12-13 10:18 AM

tender.

lucky.

beautiful.

"too bad ignorance isn't painful"
~Unknown~

2islander2
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since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

6 posted 2008-12-13 11:23 AM

it is like a fairy tale, so sweet.enjoyed it

yann

Bill Charles
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since 2000-07-11

Posts 10619
highways, & byways, for now

7 posted 2008-12-14 11:02 PM

jwesley - so good to read your writings once again...

BC

suthern

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since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

8 posted 2008-12-18 04:46 PM

So very lovely. *S*

SEA

Moderator

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since 2000-01-18

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with you

9 posted 2008-12-18 04:48 PM

*goodness*

this rocks!!

Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

10 posted 2008-12-18 05:50 PM

Yo jwesley,

That's the way it should be.

Bobby

1slick_lady
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since 2000-12-22

Posts 6088
standing on a shadow's lace

11 posted 2008-12-18 08:20 PM

beautiful

LindsayP
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since 2007-07-28

Posts 3410
Australia, Victoria

12 posted 2008-12-22 08:33 PM

You paint a beautiful romantic picture with this one Jimmy, much enjoyed.

Lindsay

ethome
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since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

13 posted 2008-12-22 10:01 PM

Beautiful romance tastefully worded.

Eric

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