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MARK V SHELDON
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0 posted 2018-11-11 10:58 AM


Tandem Flashpoint

Copyright 2018 by: Mark V Sheldon


Through sanguine haze
My veteran heart is
Combusting with the
California Fires
Ten days after your birthday
Twenty years after our flames
Still smoldering in
Charred reminisce
Embers of how I made you happy
Remembering the fireplace
Logged heat of proximity
Sparks, smoke, and mirror
Reflecting on a
Misaligned timeline
Slow-burning our forged
Destiny to the ground
Where dormant coals remain
Buried in ashes of our past
Glowing, going on
Stoked by your still
In my dreams I reach
To connect to you
To the US we once knew
To the one we will be
Wants more than a
Single torch or a
Soulitary candle
In the Santa Ana winds
Blowing time across
Yesteryears, calendars
Kindling the pyre
Fanning the blame
Igniting a life in limbo
Striking a match made
In heaven not
Withstanding the burden of
Two souls consumed with
The other side of another
Reality unfolding
Holding hope for
The next life when
Synchronicities synchronize
Two lives in

Tandem Flashpoint




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[This message has been edited by MARK V SHELDON (11-11-2018 11:35 AM).]

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JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
1 posted 2018-11-12 09:45 AM


Loved this poem of your true(?) love and giving love with your "veteran heart."

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kevinjtaylor
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Posts 61
British Columbia, Canada
2 posted 2018-11-12 10:47 AM


Your poem pulled me along and I particularly enjoyed the last few lines where the hope (that I look for in life and love) is expressed so well. Thank you.
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