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Wilfred Yeats
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0 posted 2000-09-17 03:46 PM



Such power you hold over me
Not unlike the power you claim
When you have me your sights
How you can lift me up high
Raise me to the highest heights
With just a knowing smile
For so you do beguile.

How I pray you will lay me down
And raise yourself above me
Feeling all your passion's flare
As I gaze into your eyes
See the love residing there
With just your knowing smile
For so it does beguile.

But then the thought occurs to me
You are feeling just the same
Making silent prayer of sighs
I'll take you and lay you down
So you can gaze in my eyes
With just a knowing smile
For so we do beguile.




~You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

~ Billy Wilder

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doreen peri
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1 posted 2000-09-17 04:18 PM


lovely!! well written... this one's smooth! i love the closing line of each stanza repeating, "For so we do beguile"...a very enjoyable read

(but really, if i were you, i wouldn't allow me to have such power over you... LOL  )

Kethry
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2 posted 2000-09-17 05:00 PM


Wil,
Begin the beguile, is what I say.

Be well
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."-

Marge Tindal
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3 posted 2000-09-17 05:52 PM


Wilfred~
Such beguiling thoughts to stir the day.
I enjoyed this one from title, that drew me in, to closing.

Guess you could say I was beguiled.
~*Marge*~



~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
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Elizabeth Santos
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4 posted 2000-09-17 08:12 PM


Three lovely verses from the romantic poet, and as always, so well written.
Liz

Mark Bohannan
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5 posted 2000-09-17 08:54 PM


Romance suits you just fine and you make it shine in every way.  Wonderful penning by you once more.
Wilfred Yeats
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6 posted 2000-09-17 10:05 PM


Doreen-
Thanks - and you're too modest - all the men are in your sway, not just me LOL  

Kethry-
Cole Porter roll over, a new song for the milennium eh? Thanks  

Marge-
No boogers or poopoo here. Lacking your imagination I be only guile. Thanks  

Ms Santos-
you are too kind - the poet with the lariet
should be called the laureate

Mark-
Sincerely - I am humbled in your presenxe
Thank you


~You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

~ Billy Wilder

Nan
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7 posted 2000-09-18 06:57 AM


Hey - I like Kethry's approach...

Let the Beguile's begin!!... Nice job, Wil...

Wilfred Yeats
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8 posted 2000-09-18 10:50 AM


Nan-
"Begin the Beguile" eh? Sounds good - you write the music - I'll write the words - or if you'd rather I'll do music - you do words.        


~You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

~ Billy Wilder

Martie
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9 posted 2000-09-18 05:02 PM


Bill--turn about IS fair play, when you're playing the game, beguile.  Beautiful, romantic poem!
ddgoose
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10 posted 2000-09-18 05:08 PM


Wil


I am swooning - lovely, just lovely.  Cannot wait for more.

                  didi

Chanson
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11 posted 2000-09-18 05:10 PM


I'm partial to repeating lines/words in a poem. It hits the message home....just as you did here....and very beautifully I might add  

...chanson~

Music, tonal clear & pure,
Caresses the harshest of curves.
-Song of Gesture


Wilfred Yeats
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12 posted 2000-09-18 10:12 PM


Martie-

All the while I thought beguile
came from a smile
yet in my trance I learned a dance
beguile begets romance
for so a poet short on rhymes
even at the best of times
leans on words some call crimes

Thanks Martie  

DDGoose-

I will keep trying - thank you

Chanson-

the repeating form - is where I'm least comfortable - so I work on it harder - thank you

Paula Finn
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13 posted 2000-09-18 11:16 PM


again you work your romantic magic
Wilfred Yeats
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14 posted 2000-09-19 01:14 AM


Paula -

I can't help it - just a romantic at heart Thanks

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