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PoeticKnight
Senior Member

since 2000-01-20

Posts 1144
New Orleans, LA

0 posted 2000-03-23 03:06 PM

Flaming youth, where have thee gone?
Setting suns take longer to fade
Than thy fire, now but glowing embers
Once prominently displayed,
Yet the heart remembers
What a flame thee had made

So suddenly did I realize your end
Content to let the Earth keep turning
Thy heat by slow degrees,
With an ever gradual cooling of thy burning,
Allowed the senses to freeze,
All of which now, too late in the learning

Rekindle that which made thee proud
To replenish the fuel by that which inspires
Let not the flame fade slowly,
For in lowering, lowers desire
Rather, make haste in making all things holy
Until extinguished, burn ever thy fire

Denise

Moderator

Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

1 posted 2000-03-23 03:56 PM

Ahhh, this is so beautiful, JML!

Denise

Janet Marie
Member Laureate

since 2000-01-22

Posts 18554

2 posted 2000-03-23 04:20 PM

Rekindle that which made thee proud
To replenish the fuel by that which inspires
Let not the flame fade slowly,
For in lowering, lowers desire
Rather, make haste in making all things holy
Until extinguished, burn ever thy fire

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thy poets pen has graced us with a vision of thy grace.
I love this one...perfection in poetry... THOU are..(smile)
thou art still being stalked...does thou like that?

thy jm

Marge Tindal

Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

3 posted 2000-03-23 04:35 PM

JML~
Exquisitely lovely.

'Yet the heart remembers
What a flame thee had made'

Doesn't get much better than that.
~*Marge*~

~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
[email protected]

hoot_owl_rn
Member Patricius

since 1999-07-05

Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA

4 posted 2000-03-23 11:13 PM

JML...you name is getting to be one that I search for when I log on here

Nice work, like your passion and your style

Meadowmuse
Member Elite

since 1999-12-27

Posts 3263

5 posted 2000-03-23 11:31 PM

Very pretty poetry, JML.

~ Claire

PoeticKnight
Senior Member

since 2000-01-20

Posts 1144
New Orleans, LA

6 posted 2000-03-24 09:44 AM

Thank you all very, very much for the comments on this one. It is one of the few that I am really proud of.
Thanks again.

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