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secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

0 posted 2015-11-12 10:57 PM

Beautiful Stranger

Beautiful stranger
I knew you for a
moment out of
time and place,
by candle and
moon light,
when the world
stood still.
What does love
  become,
that can endure
on one side only
to outlive eternity,
but magnanimous
  despair.

              --- b. e. adams (11/12/2015)

rainyday
Member
Posts 304
Heartland USA

1 posted 2015-11-13 01:46 AM

shdp, This could be lyrics to a love-song..
a ballad to touch many a heart.
Lovely write Poet.

rainyday J

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

2 posted 2015-11-13 08:01 AM

Thank you! ... great choice of Author/UserID name for this website by the way !

... and welcome to these fine blue sands of 'P.I.P.-land' by the cyber-sea!

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

3 posted 2015-11-13 08:08 AM

How indeed, Bruce, how indeed . . .

"What does love
become,
that can endure
on one side only"

~*~ When they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~

latearrival
Member Ascendant

since 2003-03-21

Posts 5499
Florida

4 posted 2015-11-13 12:32 PM

Love becomes a deep seated memory, which gives the promise that one day another one may come along. As I said before, age holds no bars to love. Loving another is not disrespect but a honor to the first one that we can go on because of what we leaned and shared before. JMO, Jo

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

5 posted 2015-11-13 02:39 PM

Love your paradigm (viewpoint on 'Love'), Jo! ...

not sure that's the 'reality' of it though (beyond the 'poetry' and the dream) ...

What I still would like to truly 'believe in' is what I once wrote:

     leaps of faith
   (what a 'poet'
    must 'believe')

Despite all the sham,
cynicism, and broken
dreams of the past,
I must simply trust
that all cynics become
‘believers,’
when, by the magic
of fate, destiny,
happenstance or
accidental miracles,
they find someone or
something to ‘believe in.’
Such a man and a women
together in new love ...
become fully 'real'
  and limitless.

          ---      b. e. adams
                   (in defense of love,
                      Romanticism, and
                      'taking chances')

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

6 posted 2015-11-14 09:57 AM

Both your offerings here are deeply poignant, dear Bruce.

Love is precious to itself and if we didn't cling to it, it would never transform into despair. I mean, it is, after all, a permanent gift, just as you say "out of time and space/place".

Margherita

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

7 posted 2015-11-14 02:07 PM

Thanks for commenting on this ever-so-humble lil' "poetic scribble," Ms. Margherita !

jjote
Senior Member

since 2002-12-25

Posts 1088
Ontario, Canada

8 posted 2015-11-14 09:09 PM

I can read a wistful longing in this poem and yes, the world can stand still when you meet your beautiful stranger, but despair not that it would be a one-sided love...who knows it will outlive eternity.

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