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Billy Bolden
Junior Member

since 2000-03-27

Posts 23

0 posted 2000-04-01 12:44 PM

From time to time when the person you love is not in touch it feels as though they are testing you to measure your level of commitment.

The Lover’s Test

My Lover gave a test
To find me at my best.
It was not a quiz to note,
To measure if I emote,
Some proper lever of affection,
Some portrait of reflection.
No! Rather she sought to find
Some glimpse into the mind.

Lovers from some distant shore,
Share a dance of common score.
To twirl in dreams of romance,
Taking risk and taking chance,
In hope to find one whose soul
Has power to make them whole.
At first I did loathe the test,
Fearing the measure of my best.

But now have come full round,
Hearing full the pulsing sound,
Of my Lover’s beating heart.
Knowing she will not depart
From one whose devotion played
The score to which her heart swayed.
In rhythm of motion in the dance
A symphony of sweet romance.

To pass or fail not mine to tell
Inside her loving heart, behind the vale
Where only she is known to sail,
Will come the answer that will tell.
Confident I stand, I will not fail
To capture her behind the vale.
Enchanted nights to dance and sail
Into dreams that dare not fail.

Patient, casting bread into the sea,
Hopefully waiting, will it be?
Until in dreams she comes to me.
Like foaming billows on the sea,
Rush gently, persistent to the shore,
She will find respite behind the door
Of one’s whose heart is seeking more,
Waiting, waiting, waiting on the shore.

Teaching my heart the need to stay
Holding my fears against that day
When home to me she will run
To twirl and sway in the dance
Like those who have the chance
To end the lack of sweet romance.
So, here I wait, still not knowing,
If the fire in her heart is growing.

Aimster
Member Elite

since 2000-02-19

Posts 4297
Charlotte, NC

1 posted 2000-04-01 01:32 AM

~billy

wow!!

this was sensational! i am sure you will pass the "test" with flying colors. your poetry is nearly flawless, yet mixed with enough unperfectness if you will to give it wonderful character! this was really beautiful.

amy

~Live today as though it were your last but prepare for tomorrow as though it were here~

Marge Tindal

Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

2 posted 2000-04-01 05:20 AM

BillyB~
A+
~*Marge*~

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hoot_owl_rn
Member Patricius

since 1999-07-05

Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA

3 posted 2000-04-01 10:34 AM

I think you'll pass with flying colors

Nan

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-20

Posts 21191
Cape Cod Massachusetts USA

4 posted 2000-04-01 01:48 PM

Billy passes - and can definitely stick around these forums for awhile....

CherylLynnMckee
Member

since 2000-03-28

Posts 215

5 posted 2000-04-01 01:57 PM

I love the thought that went into this..lovely poem!

Corinne
Member Ascendant

since 1999-10-28

Posts 5167
state of confusion

6 posted 2000-04-01 02:14 PM

I'd say you passed with flying colors, with this poem, too!

Corinne

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