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Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

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Tamarac Fla

0 posted 1999-08-24 11:59 AM

Thorn and Dove

I still stalk the challenge of love.
Each day a thorn. Each night a dove.
My thoughts they vacillate this fate,
They cannot live that altered state.

The thorns are dragons' that have lain.
I slay them, but they yet remain.
How lies the pause of my surcease?
Where lies the golden fleece of peace?

Granted my boon, to challenge grim,
And fill the chasm to the brim.
To walked on water and stay dry,
And fly in air where angels vie.

I sang to the moon, like a loon,
Tried rune on love, was a buffoon.
Stayed some dragon's but some remain,
Slept at night where the dove has lain.

But thorns still stab and take their toll,
Dragons' of love still skewer my soul,
The thorns have impaled the dove and
Blood leaks down on my press of love.

Some day love will come, newborn and
Enter as dove without the thorn.

DreamEvil
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since 1999-06-22

Posts 2396

1 posted 1999-08-24 03:32 PM

Had to add that twist of hope to the end, didn't you? Good job!

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Shall I indulge in flights of fancy hampered by clipped wings?
DreamEvil©

caroline
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since 1999-08-16

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2 posted 1999-08-24 05:34 PM

This is excellent!

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The only man worth your tears will never make you cry...

WhtDove
Member Rara Avis

since 1999-07-22

Posts 9245
Illinois

3 posted 1999-08-24 09:50 PM

I really, really liked this!

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

4 posted 1999-08-24 10:08 PM

DreamEvil, Caroline and whtDove,
Thorn surcease and dove
All three I love.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Balladeer

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since 1999-06-05

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Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA

5 posted 1999-08-25 12:27 PM

This is a dove-ly piece. You are growing mightily, Sy!

Cinderella
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since 1999-06-23

Posts 152
Arizona

6 posted 1999-08-25 02:40 AM

As always Sy, marvelous!

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

7 posted 1999-08-25 09:09 AM

Cinderella,
From Cinderfella that you so much.

hoot_owl_rn
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since 1999-07-05

Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA

8 posted 1999-08-25 10:53 AM

Impailed on the thorn
Blood stains feathers white
The dove cries out in pain
Refusing to give up the fight

Her right wings damaged
She is broken and scared
She longs for the safety
That she once shared

But hope springs eternal
And with one final cry
She loosens herself
And heads for the sky

Battered and bleeding
She holds her head high
Sometimes a single feather
Is enough to fly

Wonderful work Seymore...as you can see I found it inspiring

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"Nobody has measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold" ~Zelda Fitzgerald

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

9 posted 1999-08-25 11:18 AM

Hoot,
Enjoyed the poem
Thank you.

Nan

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since 1999-05-20

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Cape Cod Massachusetts USA

10 posted 1999-08-27 01:34 PM

I have but one word for you, Sy - *Sigh*

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

11 posted 1999-08-27 06:20 PM

Nan,
I accept the sigh and up you two sighs

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