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Eyes and Dreams
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Eyes and Dreams |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704
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Unearth me I’m under these dreams can’t find air unless I’m swallowing hope and imagining the truth of your skin It is strongest in the night air when jasmine smoothes its scent around me I walk my darkened streets and lamp-flickers mock the candles I could light with you I’d spread dry wax and wick over the floor brush them gently and laugh at the lamps impassively seeing night far from here In this private bind I never sleep you hold my eyelids with fingers I will kiss when I end the dream wake up and wake up I’ll rush the air through me throw sand in your hair discuss the life of the weather and the reason God waits till death We’ll lay back and watch our dreams moving out left with only eyes into eyes and now for the night urges me on to moments of our breath patterned against clouds and then I say I will find you I will |
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wayoutwalt Member Elite
since 1999-06-22
Posts 4870TEXAS (it's all big) |
wow to the senses it struck me and left me with the ole severn kills me at the end touchdown 6 points kick the extra point even though you're already up by 24 feeling |
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Balladeer
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Ah, Severn, I know you will....  I love this one..... |
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Irish Rose Member Patricius
since 2000-04-06
Posts 10263 |
I think you won the Super Bowl with this one! Kathleen |
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Butterflies_dont_cry Member Elite
since 2000-03-06
Posts 3733Michigan |
Beautiful work......dreams often make the rest of the day worth going through...this flowed like a peaceful breeze...that's where the best dreams are often held you know  |
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Elizabeth Santos Member Rara Avis
since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269Pennsylvania |
Oh, how I've missed your exquisite poetry This is your typical verse of perfection Severn through and through Love ya lots Liz |
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Wilfred Yeats Member Elite
since 2000-08-04
Posts 2704Wilmington, Delaware |
There must be a word that outshines 'exquisite' but I can't think of it now - you must imagine it with me - - I loved this |
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Martie
Moderator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Kamla--bring me oxygen...and more dots....this is fabulous and speaks to my heart in ways you will never know...I've missed your poetry, my friend...so glad to see you here again! |
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Sudhir Iyer Member Ascendant
since 2000-04-26
Posts 6943Mumbai, India : now in Belgium |
 Where have you been O Poetess of grace, lustre and class? Where have you been? Wonderful (repeat that over a hundred times) regards Kamla, Sudhir [This message has been edited by Sudhir Iyer (edited 09-08-2000).] |
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Dark Angel Member Patricius
since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095 |
Indeed YOU will !! WOW K, This one left me breathless! I have missed reading your work. [This message has been edited by Dark Angel (edited 09-08-2000).] |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
the truth of your skin It is strongest in the night air when jasmine smoothes its scent around me I walk my darkened streets and lamp-flickers mock the candles I could light with you I’d spread dry wax and wick over the floor brush them gently and laugh at the lamps impassively seeing night far from here In this private bind I never sleep you hold my eyelids with fingers I will kiss =================== mmm mmm mmm .... this just kisses every one of the senses and leaves them *sighing* with contentment... exceptional writing my gifted butterfly friend ... >"the candles I could light with you"< what an amazing line that is ... *sigh*... later-butterflysharer-gator me |
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Dark Angel Member Patricius
since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095 |
Thought I'd mosey in for another read  I love it even more the second time around SB... You are an amazing poet my dear. Up you go! |
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Mike Member Elite
since 1999-06-19
Posts 2462 |
Wonderfully written and expressed. |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Little K...how DO you do that!? Oh, when I grow up... |
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Kethry Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-29
Posts 9082Victoria Australia |
Severn, Oh I needed this! It's like drinking sunlight and dancing moonbeams. Simply stunning.Kethry "It is the image in the mind that links us to lost treasures; but it is the loss that shapes the image, gathers the flowers weaves the garland."- |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Kamla~ To plant a flower along the path is not enough ... you must return to tend it ! More you little minx ! This was just lovely, dear poet. ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ [email protected] |
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Jamie Member Elite
since 2000-06-26
Posts 3168Blue Heaven |
A measure of sadness added to steadfast hope. Beautiful poem Kamla. Beautiful. Jamie Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito. - Virgil. "Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely". |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California |
Severn: Your poetry is one of the reasons I cannot stay away. It's wonderful to see you writing of things dreams are made of. I hope your waking is as beautiful as this poem. Michael |
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CocoBaci Member Elite
since 2000-05-06
Posts 3043 |
SEVERN, this is a beautiful poem and a splendid nite-time read. Thank you for sharing Coco |
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Corinne Member Ascendant
since 1999-10-28
Posts 5167state of confusion |
Fantastic writing, sad and etherial with just a layering of hope! Corinne |
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Zyell Member
since 2000-07-28
Posts 121USA |
this is wonderful....Excellent writing!! *S* Z "I am an abstract of Circles" |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
Walty: Thankyou! Never really considered it that way.... 'deer - what, you got the jet rev'd? LOLLOL...thanks my friend... Irish Rose - Um...what's the Super Bowl? (Truly - I don't know) Hehe...thanks. BDC - I completely agree...and thankyou very much...dreams are found in many places... Lizzy - thanks for the lovely wb my friend...I really appreciate it. Missed being here... Wilfred - ~blush~ thankyou... Martie - hey hon, I am glad it reached you in a personal way - your poetry does that to me regularly... thanks and hugs. Suddy - My friend...what a welcome! LOL...I have been in the bowels of Countless Horizons, University, English, oh - and mainly a poetic block... Mmy - and right now you are on a plane to L.A - and when you come back you will understand my envy right? Lol....thanks my AoL.. Butterfly Sharer - so so so nice of you to stop in hon! And thankyou...that line you like? Soon - I intend to do just that... Mmy -  Mike - thankyou. Fellow K - LOL...how do I do what exactly? Smile...thanks hon. Kethry - 'It's like drinking sunlight and dancing moonbeams' has to be one of the most beautiful things said about my poetry and I am quite humbled. Thankyou. Marge(y) - thanks for the encouragement...and I shall try for more I promise...lol. Hugs. J - steadfast indeed..thanks my Carolina friend... Michael - now, that's an honour my friend. Thanks... Coco - you're welcome, thankyou, and I am all too happy to! Corinne - sounds like a recipe! Good to hear you again my friend. How you doing? And thankyou! Zyell - thankyou! And welcome to Passions... K"He looked across the silky surface of the Severn... it was a famously difficult river with fierce tides..." From Jack Maggs |
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