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Nights Like This
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Nights Like This |
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Beki Senior Member
since 1999-09-15
Posts 1569Newport Beach, CA, USA |
Nights Like This On nights like this, too cold for sleep, I think of you. At 3am the sky is deep with stars, the moon hangs low above the roof tops. Shadows weave themselves like ghosts at play between the houses. Far away I hear the early tide approach the shore. That beach was ours on nights like this, to walk along and fashion dreams from salt and sand. Those nights, too cold to sleep alone, we played at love like children play at growing up. I was your Cinderella, you the prince who came to spirit me away to some far-off enchanted castle made of sand. On nights Like this, I think of you and how your eyes would fill my room with light as soft as fall ing snow. The shadows taught us how to touch in whispers, like the moon would touch the waves. Too cold for sleep, I think of you, and how your body's heat could make me shiver as a woman will, alone, on nights like this. © Beki (1989) |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
I love the sound of this poem, the way it reads. "...how your eyes would fill my room with light as soft as falling snow..", just beautiful. Very nicely done! |
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Danny Holloway Member Elite
since 2000-01-15
Posts 2034Tulsa, OK |
Can remember nights like that! Brought back some memories. Well written Beki. Nice to see more of your writing. Danny |
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Elizabeth Santos Member Rara Avis
since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269Pennsylvania |
Very beautiful poem, says she who envies those who write exquisite free verse. Your talent shines through Liz |
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Beki Senior Member
since 1999-09-15
Posts 1569Newport Beach, CA, USA |
Awww geee guys! Thanks a bunch Martie, Danny and Elizabeth! |
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tracie66 Member Elite
since 2000-01-18
Posts 4713Australia |
Beki I found this so dreamy, very well written. Tracie |
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