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Skyfyre
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since 1999-08-15
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Sitting in Michael's Lap

0 posted 2000-02-01 12:19 PM


No Greater Love

A woman's heart believes in fairy tales –
It matters not how cynical she grows –
For part of her is still the dreamy maid
Who doesn't "hope" that love exists: she knows.

That trusting child who practices her smile,
Imagining how perfect it will be
When first she looks into her Prince's eyes,
And finds those eyes are all that she can see

When time suspends, and then the music plays,
A melody that's heard by only two;
And eyes that cannot bear to look away,
As though they never held another view.

Her fingers' curves were made to fit his hand,
And when he brushes them with gentle lips,
The tingle of his touch becomes a flame
That starts along her trembling fingertips

And travels up her arm into her breast
Wherein it burns with such delicious heat
That she cannot but shine beneath his gaze,
The two are one – the circle made complete.

Adrift upon the air, the mystery
Which hangs upon the treasure of a kiss –
When first she tastes the sweetness of his lips –
No moment could be more divine than this ...

She drowns in him, a willing suicide,
Surrendering herself to his caress
He sweeps her in his arms, and they away,
To live their lives of perfect happiness.

But then the coarse reality intrudes,
Revealing imperfections to the eye,
And floods the dream with ugly truths, to prove
That "happy ever after" is a lie.

For shining eyes will have their shadow, too,
And perfect lips are sometimes known to frown;
The selfsame hands that formed the warm embrace
Can also serve to beat your spirit down;

And things are said in anger, and in pain,
And truth can be a rare commodity –
Until it seems that what was once a dream
Has turned into a daily agony.

In tears, the loving girl is locked away,
And heartless stone erected in her place –
For none can harm the thing they cannot see
Behind the cynic's mask that hides her face.

So she endures, untouched by anything,
Existing, though she dare not try to live;
While in her heart, the lonely maid despairs:
Still wanting love, with so much left to give ...
                                      
Until the day when one, with loving hands,
Unlocks the cage that holds that gentle dove –
When wounded heart can find the faith to trust,
In all the world, there is no greater love.



 Full fathom five thy father lies,
Of his bones are coral made,
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange...


--William Shakespeare, from The Tempest


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tulip
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since 1999-07-04
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unknown
1 posted 2000-02-01 12:27 PM


Skyfyre,
This was beautiful.  I know the feelings all too well.

mariee66
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since 2000-01-30
Posts 596
Recess, OfYourMind
2 posted 2000-02-01 12:33 PM


Here are some pieces of one of my fav poems~

Think it matches what you are saying in your nicely written poem~

"After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul"
"After a while you learn that sunshine burns if you get too much"
"And you learn that you really can endure... You really are strong, and you really do have worth."  Veronica Shoffstall

Hope you liked those~
Marie~  

Meadowmuse
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since 1999-12-27
Posts 3263

3 posted 2000-02-01 12:43 PM


Skye, your poetic perception and verbal acuity slay me. Excellent work, sensitive and tender message. Really, really well designed.

Claire

Denise
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since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648

4 posted 2000-02-01 12:49 PM


WOW!! You've done it again, Kess!! Another masterpiece!!! WELL DONE!!  

Denise

Me2
Junior Member
since 2000-01-29
Posts 25
Escondido, CA USA
5 posted 2000-02-01 12:51 PM


All I can say ... is that I can see a romantic, medieval screenplay in the making.  And an academy award winner to boot!

Beautiful ...

Paul

Christopher
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296
Purgatorial Incarceration
6 posted 2000-02-01 01:09 AM


Well done in form here my friend, a fairy tale indeed!  
Skyfyre
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since 1999-08-15
Posts 1906
Sitting in Michael's Lap
7 posted 2000-02-01 07:06 PM


tulip:  thank you.  

Mariee: I loved them all, thanks much!  

Claire, Denise:  You are too kind to me ... and Claire, I do so wish you'd call me Kess!  

Me2:  What a sweet compliment!  

Christopher:  LOL -- not quite up to par, but thanks anyway.  

--Kess

tori
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since 1999-06-18
Posts 520
Mechanicsville, Maryland, USA
8 posted 2000-02-01 11:34 PM


Sky this one needs to go back to the top.. here she... going... going gone...lol
Again I love it... wonderful piece my friend

 If with pen in hand I've made you think
I've not wasted one drop of ink
Vlh.
visit my site~ http://www.hsanet.net/user/dkm/hellomy.htm

Mike
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since 1999-06-19
Posts 2462

9 posted 2000-02-01 11:57 PM


you never cease to amaze with your talent.
~ViXeN~
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since 2000-01-09
Posts 93
Guelph, Ont. Canada
10 posted 2000-02-02 01:13 AM


wow.. im speechless....

also jealous of your talent.. *smile*
great job! really impressed!

White Wolf
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since 1999-09-18
Posts 371
Somewhere in the vast wasteland
11 posted 2000-02-02 03:50 AM


Great poem.  I love it.  One of the best I have read.  One thing though, I feel as you have decribed in your poem.  Does that make me wierd, being a male in all?

 "Life's greatest mystery isn't the meaning of life. To love and be loved is the meaning of life. Now how to attain those is the greatest mystery of all."


Elizabeth Santos
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since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269
Pennsylvania
12 posted 2000-02-02 05:21 AM


many women who read this will think you have somehow read their heart's diary. Very will writen.
Liz

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