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Open Poetry #48

The Promise of your Smile

secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07

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0 posted 2013-10-16 04:05 PM

    The Promise of your Smile

I might no more know
the true nature of Love
than the fair moon may
fathom the sea.
Is it strong and certain
like ancient mighty oaks
and vast and ageless as
the stars that figure-dance
through infinite heavens or the
most fragile and inconsequential
   of things,
like the first blossoms of Spring,
the sheen of Summer morning
dew  on wildflowers, or the last
flaming leaf that falls to the
   Autumn winds.
I know only that I would walk
a thousand miles of Winter
for just the promise of your smile.

                    --- b. e. adams (10/16/2013)

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2013-10-16 05:23 PM

Loved the dramatic ending of this one, Bruce.

~*~ Your past is just a story. Once you realize this, it has no power over you. ~*~

Goldenrose
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since 2003-05-30

Posts 3665

2 posted 2013-10-16 05:30 PM

I liked the ending too, but why do i think this poem was almost written backwards? Like you started with the ending always in mind and you built up to the ending slowly? But that is perhaps the wrong way to look at it...the best way is to say it is just part of the writers nature and no amount of years or reason can ever change a hopeless romantic...yes i like the second reason better...forget the first reason...oh and btw...thank you for the poem and for sharing it it with us..

Goldenrose.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous - George - Bernard Shaw.

OwlSA
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since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

3 posted 2013-10-16 06:21 PM

I hear the music of Nature and breathe her perfumed breath in this, Bruce.

Owl

secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07

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4 posted 2013-10-16 10:14 PM

most of my poems are written in virtually a 'stream of consciousness' mode.
I don't typically have anything at all in mind in advance. I just succumb to a
'need to write' (particularly in this season of the year). I really have never
quite known how or why I write ... although the cliche "I write therefore I am"
seems to rather fit ...

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