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Alicat
Member Elite

since 1999-05-23

Posts 4094
Coastal Texas

0 posted 1999-08-31 12:33 PM

Bittersweet

I once sat at a table
Surrounded by friendly faces.
Someone offered me a bowl.
"What is it?", I asked.
"Love," they said. "Drink deep."
And I wanted to,
Wanted to pull the bowl towards me,
To drain it till its barest dregs
Dribbled over my eager chin.
I pulled the bowl towards me,
Lifting heavy vessel to my quivering lips
And took a sip.
A rapturous taste enveloped me
Caught me in the maelstrom's eye
And set me gently down, dizzy and warm.
I went to drink Love deeply
In mighty draughts
When the bowl was snatched from me
By unseen hands
And broken upon the cold hearthstones.
Alone at the table I sit
Remembering the taste of Love
And yearning for another.

Alicat, the persnikitty

Skyfyre
Senior Member

since 1999-08-15

Posts 1906
Sitting in Michael's Lap

1 posted 1999-08-31 12:42 PM

"I taste a liquor never brewed
From tankards scooped in pearl
Not all the Frankfort berries
Yield such an alcohol ..."

--Emily Dickinson
(recited from memory, forgive the punctuation or lack thereof)

Good job, Alicat. I love anything that makes E.D. spring to mind ...

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"Nunc lento sonitu dicunt, morierus"
(Now as I hear this bell tolling softly for another, it says to me, "Thou must die.")

INclan
Senior Member

since 1999-07-20

Posts 1024
Indiana, USA

2 posted 1999-08-31 12:42 PM

Whoa....there is a picture for you. Nicely done! A wonderful illustration.

INclan

poetFemmeFatale
Member Elite

since 1999-07-25

Posts 2646
Arkansas

3 posted 1999-08-31 01:03 AM

Exquisite poem - loved the depth and your style - hey, next time someone passes that bowl to you, you care to pass it on to me? I'd like a taste of that.....don't mind me if I dribble too.

Very very nice!

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I beckon you to come...I lure you with my tongue... - poet FemmeFatale

Severn
Member Rara Avis

since 1999-07-17

Posts 7704

4 posted 1999-08-31 02:23 AM

So sad!

But so freeflowing and beautiful.

Alwye

Moderator

Member Elite

since 1999-06-16

Posts 3850
In the space between moments

5 posted 1999-08-31 02:52 AM

Very unique! Sad, yet so beautiful at the same time..exellent!! I enjoyed it!

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*Krista Knutson*

I see the world through the loving eyes of my heart, and suffer the pain of unfulfilled visions. -- Daniel L. Miller

Poet deVine

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-26

Posts 22612
Hurricane Alley

6 posted 1999-08-31 07:17 AM

Beautifully done, Alicat! Sipping love from a bowl....I like that!

Balladeer

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-05

Posts 25505
Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA

7 posted 1999-08-31 07:41 AM

Well done, Alicat. I must say this one bowled me over.

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