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This Dream Again
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This Dream Again |
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Meadowmuse Member Elite
since 1999-12-27
Posts 3263 |
This Dream AgainThis dream again, I blink in futile fervor, to sleep and nightly wake myself with moan, his whisper 'gainst my throat, exquisite murmur, a longing of such ache I've never known. I cannot empty out my sensual treasure, nor sift through hushing syllables of love, as words of heart flood forth through passion's pleasure, and memory lingers with my mourning dove. But who am I to harbor such emotion for one who sails across the northern skies, when both have cursed the depth of our devotion and fought to shield the pain within our eyes. While days upon my passage lie before me disguising grief and sentimental mist a dove with gaze of peaceful eye implores me ache not for lips I never once have kissed.  Claire |
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brian madden Member Elite
since 2000-05-06
Posts 4374ireland |
WOW...that was wonderful, beautiful and sad in the same breath. to sleep and nightly wake myself with moan, his whisper 'gainst my throat, exquisite murmur nor sift through hushing syllables of love, as words of heart flood forth through passion's pleasure, a dove with gaze of peaceful eye implores me ache not for lips I never once have kissed. ========================================== "Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? " Douglas Adams |
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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
Beautiful, Claire. But then your work always is......  |
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Aimster Member Elite
since 2000-02-19
Posts 4297Charlotte, NC |
claire-- you continue to amaze me with the depth of your work. i am coming to know you as a write, and must say i truly like your style! this one was NO exception...whether this be reality or "just" a dream...it is simply beautiful hon...beautiful!! take care, amy  ~Live today as though it were your last but prepare for tomorrow as though it were here~ |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
The longing is beautifully portrayed, Claire. This is just lovely! Denise |
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Rex Allen McCoy Member Elite
since 2000-01-30
Posts 2863Sippin a Timmy's in London |
Good Grief Claire ... even your nightmares are beautiful Sad but beautiful with your description You should get published Rex [This message has been edited by Rex Allen McCoy (edited 05-21-2000).] |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Claire~ Don't know how you make the anguish so lovely, but you do. 'But who am I to harbor such emotion for one who sails across the northern skies' 'as words of heart flood forth through passion's pleasure, and memory lingers with my mourning dove' The dream is as exquiste as your writing of it. ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ noles1@totcon.com |
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Mike Member Elite
since 1999-06-19
Posts 2462 |
I am afraid dear lady, with this poem you will create more than one dream tonight. Exquisitely written. [This message has been edited by Mike (edited 05-21-2000).] |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
Claire, are there really words that I can say to tell you what I feel about this work? There are, but to use them would not even come close to the way this makes me feel. . . I could say "beautiful anguish", or "unrequited longing", or even "passionate yearning", but it's so much more than that Claire, it's the way that you make it seem so real. . . it's in everyone of your poems, and this is the finest example of that. . . Don't mean to sound long-winded, but I felt that this required a lot more than just the regular "great work" from me. . . This is delicately exquisite Claire, very much so. . . ------------------------------------------------------------- That which gives light must endure burning --Victor Frankl |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
You display such vivid emotions in your poetry...it is like seeing into a feeling that can't be expressed, only felt...but, you have expressed it anyway...Wonderful work, Claire! |
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Meadowmuse Member Elite
since 1999-12-27
Posts 3263 |
Brian, thank you. I look for beauty wherever I can find it, and sometimes sadness is that place. So nice, your comment. Ms. Poet, thank you...it is my pleasure to know that you enjoyed this. Amy, your "beautiful"s felt beautiful to read...thank you... Denise, thank you so much for reading and letting me know you enjoyed. You always say the nicest things. Dear Rex, thanks to you for kindness offered. My work has been published, but not upon the scale to which I would prefer. But then, I've not submitted manuscript in years... Miss Marge, my friend, I am humbled by your sweet words today. Thank you! Mike...and with that enchanting response you may have just created another. Thank you, as always, for reading and such. Sven...I feel it, and I write. It just happens in this way. It pleases me so much to know that you have enjoyed this...thank you! Martie, it's funny, but I feel the same thing when I read your work! I thank you, in earnest, for your encouraging response. ~ Claire Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?......Henry David Thoreau |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
This dream again, I blink in futile fervor, to sleep and nightly wake myself with moan, his whisper 'gainst my throat, exquisite murmur, a longing of such ache I've never known. I cannot empty out my sensual treasure, nor sift through hushing syllables of love, as words of heart flood forth through passion's pleasure, and memory lingers with my mourning dove. ------------------ a dove with gaze of peaceful eye implores me ache not for lips I never once have kissed. --------------- *SIGH* *SIGH* exquisite...and perfect... you ache divinely in this one my poetic princess... and OH HOW I relate... sometimes ya just wanna holler at the moon... I just gotta get my hands on that POET!!!(not poetic I KNOW) but a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do LOL  Some things cannot be explained by verses that rhyme, They are not measured by the commitment of time. Some emotions run too deep to be described by words, Forgiveness and understanding-remain the most beautiful words ever heard. ~Janet Marie~ "What the caterpillar calls the end ... The world calls a butterfly" ~Lao Tze Tao~ ~Butterflies are meant to be free~ |
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Corinne Member Ascendant
since 1999-10-28
Posts 5167state of confusion |
Beautiful! Fulling longing, desire, hunger and sadness. Corinne |
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Meadowmuse Member Elite
since 1999-12-27
Posts 3263 |
Dear Janet, thank you...the moon has heard my pleading voice many nights over, I believe. Corinne, thank you for such a kind response...I am glad you found something to like in reading this. ~ Claire Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?......Henry David Thoreau |
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wayoutwalt Member Elite
since 1999-06-22
Posts 4870TEXAS (it's all big) |
yip yip i dunno why i said that but yip i like this one alot oh so well done |
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Irish Rose Member Patricius
since 2000-04-06
Posts 10263 |
it's hauntingly romantic Kathleen indy31_99@yahoo.com |
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Corazon Senior Member
since 2000-02-02
Posts 1209 |
will echo sven in this one.....it is so beautiful it is more than words can say....I love your writing |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
"A dove with gaze of peaceful eye implores me ache not for lips I never once have kissed." Very nice and very poignant. James |
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Meadowmuse Member Elite
since 1999-12-27
Posts 3263 |
Walt, your "yip" is music to my "years"... thank you. Kathleen, thank you for reading. Corazon, thank you, sincerely for so nice a response... James, I am pleased that you enjoyed this one...thank you! ~ Claire Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?......Henry David Thoreau |
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