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Open Poetry #48

Empty Bed

LorienLord
Member

since 2013-02-03

Posts 55
Wisconsin USA

0 posted 2013-02-11 06:29 PM

There is a white canvas
that lies in my room
where we painted love
with bold flowing strokes
and muted shades
of breathless sighs
your hand guiding mine.

Now it is empty
the colors have fled
so I draw from my memory
tracing lines that you left
in my heart and on my sheets
painting by numbers
the nights you are gone.

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius

since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

1 posted 2013-02-12 12:38 PM

So much emotion...sigh

Excellent and so sadly beautiful.

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

2 posted 2013-02-12 04:32 AM

Yes, sadly beautiful, as Victoria says but the missing so well expressed. Enjoyed!

Helen

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

3 posted 2013-02-12 08:36 AM

ah . . . very well done, my friend, the emotion is tangible, as it should be.

j.

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

4 posted 2013-02-12 06:30 PM

These last two lines just say it all . . .

quote:
painting by numbers
the nights you are gone.

The memories, even the smells linger sometimes forever. This is a very good poem . . .

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

5 posted 2013-02-20 11:48 PM

Nice...James

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

6 posted 2013-02-22 01:35 AM

exquisite share about sentiments that can't go away, thanks for the enjoyable read,

yann

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

7 posted 2013-02-22 12:17 PM

I understand the ache in the beauty, but I am glad you have the solace of the beauty in the ache.

Owl

EmmaRose
Senior Member

since 2011-03-02

Posts 1376
Midwest

8 posted 2013-02-23 04:23 PM

enjoyed the palette of color and shadow here

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