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Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

0 posted 1999-08-24 04:37 PM

You Think, You Thought

You think I can just unleash out loud all of my inner feelings
like I do when I sit down and put my paper under pen,
it irritates me that you aren’t right, you don’t know when
to stop asking me to explain, and I end up lost and reeling.

You think it’s easy for me to explain certain ways I suffer
when I desire ever so, a fine artist of words to be;
you have always thought that it’s so effortless for me
ah, from rejection slips my dreams are my only buffer.

You thought “She puts material out for her Forum friends,
and from me she hides her innermost, silent thoughts.”
Darling, I don’t think you can never, ever be taught
that posting on the Forum is only a means to an end.

You think I’m romantic, you don’t know the reality:
how love words get caught up too fast in my mind,
how my love for you makes me foolish, and blind,
how my throat closes on my words of love, in totality.

I know you’ve had doubts, and thought “I’m losing her,”
and that is ever so far from what I’m trying to do;
I love my poetry and prose, but not as much as I love you.
So darling, in poetry I say, of my love you can be sure.

So quit your thinking all of these foolish thoughts, dear
and bring your warm arms and smiling eyes over to me,
instead of having me utter the words, gaze into my soul and see
that I will survive, forever and tomorrow, as I abide right here.

24 August, 1999
©KRJ

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Sunshine
Words will always express our feelings true. ~~~ KRJ
Look, then, into thine heart, and write ~~~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

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Tamarac Fla

1 posted 1999-08-24 10:28 PM

Sunshine,
Anyone that couldn't understand your poem I question. Nice job.

Balladeer

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2 posted 1999-08-24 11:31 PM

This is a classic envelope.

Sunshine

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3 posted 1999-08-25 08:23 AM

Thank you both!

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Sunshine
Words will always express our feelings true. ~~~ KRJ
Look, then, into thine heart, and write ~~~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

zipknee
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since 1999-07-28

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Oak Park, IL

4 posted 1999-08-25 08:54 AM

this poem so clearly reveals a poets inner workings. i wish more people understood how much easier it is to write feelings than it is to say them. you summed it up perfectly.

Sunshine

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5 posted 1999-08-27 02:09 PM

Thanks for the "summation," Zipknee!

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Sunshine
Words will always express our feelings true. ~~~ KRJ
Look, then, into thine heart, and write ~~~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Alison

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since 2008-01-27

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6 posted 2011-02-20 02:22 AM

Does he understand now? I love this.

A

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