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Meadowmuse
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0 posted 2001-03-04 06:03 PM




Faith


I've drifted, dull, through frightened nights of blindness.
Naive, I breathed the ethers of the sea.
Now ragged scrap on shores of cold unkindness,
come quiet the waves from pulsing, pounding me.

Oh Faith, I turned - regretful, sullen, sober -
away in hatred's haste and bitter loss.
This nameless sense of grief became my lover,
a silent deep I cannot swim across.

Humility calls quick both false and fearless,
as eloquence of pride, unheard, allows
me breathe and know unspoken peace, lie tearless
in prayer for grace and all my Faith endows.

And now through few and fevered days remaining,
I plead, with breath and blood in slightest rise
and weight of humbled spirit, heart unfeigning,
oh Faith, come lift this darkness from my eyes.






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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Voiceless
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1 posted 2001-03-04 06:58 PM


We all need faith...
Well done


~*Peachy Be*~

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2 posted 2001-03-04 07:12 PM


beautifully said....your words are so graceful....or soft.....very nice SEA
Poeminister
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3 posted 2001-03-04 07:16 PM


Keep Faith bold and bright
thro' nights and days of dark light
hold it with me, tight

Claire--Beautifully penned.

Poeminister



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wayoutwalt
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4 posted 2001-03-04 08:40 PM


o crapola this is great... sorry for the use of metaphor in my comment but this is truly great!

You know the "Never Ending Story"?
They're still telling it!



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Lone Wolf
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5 posted 2001-03-04 08:55 PM


Your faith will see you through. All we have to do is believe. Nice writing.

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

Seymour Tabin
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6 posted 2001-03-04 09:07 PM


Meadow,
I'll say it again, your my kind of poet.
Excellent writing and the flow just warms my heart. *L* Sy

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7 posted 2001-03-04 09:11 PM


Excellent poem, very well expressed

Don't ever give in, if you do you've lost everything you've ever had and everything you hope to gain, but if you carry on your already winning.


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8 posted 2001-03-04 09:15 PM


Very wonderful writing, Claire....
Meadowmuse
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9 posted 2001-03-04 09:40 PM


My earnest thanks for reading, everyone. Not to worry, my faith is intact...this is simply a poetic examination, though we all have been there, to some degree, I suspect. Thank you, each, for your kind and encouraging responses. Always a pleasure sharing poetry with you folks. (o:

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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10 posted 2001-03-04 10:46 PM


indeed we have my friend. . . that's the wonderful thing about faith. . . it's always there. . .

wonderful. . .

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To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world.

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