To my loving wife of 45 years

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Not A Poet
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since 1999-11-03

Posts 3885
Oklahoma, USA

0 posted 2003-05-13 11:52 PM

Thoughts of Loving You

When time is right to share a final word
With those I love and on my dying breath
Express to one and all what must be heard
Ere I surrender to the arms of Death;
When matters of the Earth are mine no more,
That somber day the Reaper comes to reap -
To close the match and count the final score,
With scrolls in hand I face the final sleep;
The only word I speak will be your name,
A poet's way - the only way I can,
By whispering your name once more proclaim
That loving you made me a better man
And with that word, to all the world, assure
My love of loving you will long endure.

Titia Geertman
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since 2001-05-07

Posts 5182
Netherlands

1 posted 2003-05-14 01:06 PM

WOW, that was beautiful, I think you choosed the wrong alias, you are a poet for sure and a romantic one too.

Titia

Like scattered leaves...my words will flow

Not A Poet
Member Elite

since 1999-11-03

Posts 3885
Oklahoma, USA

2 posted 2003-05-23 01:13 AM

Thank you Titia. You are so sweet and much too generous.

Pete

Dark Angel
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since 1999-08-04

Posts 10095

3 posted 2003-05-23 11:19 PM

Wow! your sonnet is absolutely stunning... I am still learning but I could feel the flow of your words which tells me this is how a sonnet must sound for a perfect meter.

Keeping this.

Maree

Dark Angel
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since 1999-08-04

Posts 10095

4 posted 2003-05-23 11:20 PM

er adding to my library.

fayth
Junior Member

since 2003-05-03

Posts 19

5 posted 2003-05-25 04:34 PM

If there were a shooting star
There are two things for a start
I'd wish the 46 were 100
and that you would never part.

Thank you for sharing this sonnet, you have made me fall in love with the sonnet-or almost, I am reading nothing else.

God bless

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

6 posted 2003-05-26 07:43 AM

Yep...that's the way to write a sonnet. Now I know what I'm doing wrong. I'm not staying married long enough...

Bridget Shenachie
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since 2002-01-23

Posts 1056
Kansas USA

7 posted 2003-05-26 11:48 PM

Wow, Pete! It does help to see a sonnet that is beautifully written and full of romance that warms the heart. If you're not a poet, what are you?

Thanks for sharing this treasure.

Shenachie

Nan

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-20

Posts 21191
Cape Cod Massachusetts USA

8 posted 2003-06-13 08:02 PM

Don'tcha just love these wonderful sonnets?? They're my favorite - and yours are awesome...

vlraynes
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since 2000-07-25

Posts 8229
Somewhere... out there...

9 posted 2003-06-18 03:03 AM

Pete...I read this one when you first posted it,
and I really thought I replied to it...guess not.
Must have been because I was too busy sighing
over this beautiful sonnet of love.
Your wife is one lucky lady, my friend, and you
are DEFINITELY a poet.

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