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Linger a Little More ................ a repost from January 2000
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Linger a Little More ................ a repost from January 2000 |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart 
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Linger a Little More Shadows be my beckoning call through a door, down misty hall beseech me to look o'er wall, But looking o'er I cannot bear, though voices faded do I hear sounding close and full of cheer, For beyond impenetrable wall I would heed the shadowy call to see the faces, loved voices all. Would I, had I but known though life's forces shown through yon past's door, I would not have flown so high, so long gone, but have lingered a little more. Age be wise to one still fair, knowing now how much I dare to revisit the past, 'tisn't fair… To not be able to once again hold the people that were true gold for they are now gone beyond old. Heart be broken o'er words unsaid yet they fill this empty head some days, I would be lead… Would I, had I but known though life's forces shown through yon past's door, I would not have flown so high, so long gone, but have lingered a little more. ©KRJ 23 January 2000 |
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Lone Wolf Member Ascendant
since 2000-03-16
Posts 5842Lansing, MI USA |
Wonderful and emotional writing here, Sunshine. If only we knew, we could have said something to them. Just have to have faith that they knew how we felt. This is an important lesson I think. Thank you for sharing. LW Poetry should surprise by fine excess...it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts and appear almost a remembrance. -J.Keats |
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Balladeer
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since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
I like this one, Sunshine. I ended a poem once with the lines: ...but another that is just as bad Is the simple phrase "I wish I had". Sadly, we all have those things in our pasts..hopefully we learn from them. |
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Voiceless Senior Member
since 2001-02-19
Posts 686Under the stars upon the wind |
It is times like these that the words that we use to weave thoughts leave us with none to use for common comments I have but 3 that fit at the moment True and Beautiful |
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ethome Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858New Brunswick Canada |
Hey Sunshine! Hello again! I love the places that the reader can go with this one...either from your virtuality or from a construed perspective of their own...I think I missed this one the first time...but you could repost all of yours and I would read them again....take care! The poet is like a cocoon; in him the caterpillar of the past finds rest, and from him the butterfly of the future emerges. |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Yes Lone Wolf...what is important is to take time to heed the words now, and make sure that the people who are a part of your life are told how appreciated they really are....thank you.... 'Deer, yes....we should all take the "I wish I had" to "I'm glad I can...." Voiceless, those three words are very welcome, thank you.... Ethome, what a lovely thing for you to write....thank you very much my friend.... |
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