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Poet deVine

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Hurricane Alley

0 posted 2001-03-16 10:38 PM

Sometimes we hide within our words
a pain that screams for release
hoping that someone will see
and offer our soul some peace

Simply put, a rhyme or verse,
can a complicated thought impart
and finding a key to the puzzle
can heal a wounded heart.

Read well my poems, brother;
but heed well my words, my friend.
Do not trust the beginning
until you’ve read the end.

Elizabeth

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1 posted 2001-03-16 10:55 PM

I agree!

Joyce Johnson

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2 posted 2001-03-16 11:09 PM

"Do not trust the beginning until you have read the end." Oh, if we only could do that in our lives. Wonderful poem. Joyce

Katherine Chandler
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3 posted 2001-03-16 11:19 PM

A wonderful poem Poet, I could relate so to your words. Thanks, Kate

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T S Eliot

serenity blaze
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4 posted 2001-03-17 04:07 AM

ethome
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5 posted 2001-03-17 04:50 AM

Poor Serenity's replies are still getting messed up...hang in there kid!

Great poem by the way...like the wisdom of those last two lines...I know that most poet's are seeking release of some sort when they sit down to write....thanks

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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6 posted 2001-03-17 10:33 AM

WOW!! You left me in awe! How true those words...absolutely love the ending it just wraps it all up. WOW!!!

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7 posted 2001-03-17 11:30 AM

indeed. . .

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

bslicker

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8 posted 2001-03-17 11:37 AM

Does that mean i should stop strolling down to the last paragraph, reading it and then reading the whole write... .opps....

Really though i agree with you.

Bernie

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9 posted 2001-03-17 12:01 PM

Fantasticly written.
I could relate, true words you wrote.
Red

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10 posted 2001-03-17 12:39 PM

I loved the notion here, that poetry is less about writing than it is about sharing...and having your words understood. It's like a circle, which cannot be completed unless their is a receptive, gentle mind to read from begining to end.

I especially loved these lines:

"Read well my poems, brother;
but heed well my words, my friend.
Do not trust the beginning
until you’ve read the end"

catalinamoon

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The Shores of Alone

11 posted 2001-03-17 02:01 PM

Sharon, you certainly summed it up perfectly here!
Sandra

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12 posted 2001-03-17 02:03 PM

.........awesome.

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13 posted 2001-03-17 02:10 PM

excellent!!!.......... and oh so true

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14 posted 2001-03-17 02:17 PM

I absolutely, love it! Thanks for sharing.

A quarter of a century must pass, for the writer to understand what and why he writes.

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15 posted 2001-03-17 03:09 PM

This is so well put. Good job of writing!

Betty Lou Hebert

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16 posted 2001-03-17 03:23 PM

I love this, PDV... simply love it.

Dark Angel
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17 posted 2001-03-17 04:45 PM

oooohh yes, I agree

well said Sharon

enjoyed

Maree

I may know the word but not say it
I may know the truth but not face it
I may hear a sound a whisper sacred and profound
but turn my head indifferent.

Natalie Merchant

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Kerri S
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18 posted 2001-03-17 05:07 PM

Once again Sharon you have blown me away with your words. The honesty in that poem rings true, we do all hide behide our words.

Kerri

Poet deVine

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19 posted 2001-03-17 07:33 PM

Thanks to all of you..I'm amazed this one was so well received!! Thank you!

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20 posted 2001-03-18 01:36 AM

Simply put, a rhyme or verse,
can a complicated thought impart
and finding a key to the puzzle
can heal a wounded heart
====================

yes..indeed sharon...
and reading between the lines is the path to the soul...
wisdom written in rhyme here dear poetess!!
well done.

We wish ourselves beautiful,
we cry in the night.
Its not the love you fear ...
its the fall from the height.
~Edwin McCain~

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21 posted 2001-03-18 02:53 AM

you never fail to take my breath away....

May your dreams always dance to the rhythm of a lover's heartbeat...

Mysteria

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22 posted 2001-03-18 03:14 AM

Your muse is most amusing! Enjoyed this very much!

Mabel A. Dilley
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23 posted 2001-03-18 03:34 AM

I truly loved the thought and the texture of it all. I believe poetry to be the language of the soul so I'm not sure we hide, but rather express. How true it is that one does not know the end until it is truly ended. Much enjoyed this write.

"I am not now that which I have been."

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24 posted 2001-03-18 03:40 AM

there is very little doubt i hide behind my words, or table, even my car

But I think I now what you mean. Someiimes the more I hurt, the more I write, and words are so very special, as they have never abandoned me.

Hope I got most of the poem right.

Best wishes
Rosemary

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25 posted 2001-03-18 08:08 AM

Yes, Sharon, many do hide behind them, I have done this, openness can be too brutal to bear sometimes. Thank you for a beautiful post.

Kathleen Blake

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and the sun drips honey."
Laurie Lee

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26 posted 2001-03-18 08:36 AM

Well put, Sharon. They can be like a wall or window to one's soul, but you never really know which it is for sure until you get to know the poet behind the words. Loved this!!

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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27 posted 2001-03-18 05:32 PM

Am I glad I didn't miss this one! Such truth in your words as well as all the understanding comments. I wrote my very first poem when I was in stages of a miscarriage, my 3 year old daughter hospitalized, and my Mom called (from another state)telling me she'd sold the family home last night and my grandmother had died this morning. I never felt so alone. Writing about my gram eased me.

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