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Wilfred Yeats
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since 2000-08-04

Posts 2704
Wilmington, Delaware

0 posted 2001-05-05 08:37 PM

In no way do I suggest that this can compare with a sonnet by Edna St. Vincent Millay, only that I drew from her.

What can love mean - when faced with starvation
What meaning held when racked within by pain
Recollection's memory of passion
Now overridden by the sense of stain

What magic is love that words fuse us through
Without touch without scent we're deep imbued
What can love mean - is it kind of a flu
What pain can we bear when we know love is true

I consider what I've gained, what I would lose
Would I trade an ounce, which choice would I choose
Your love or freedom from pain is no choice
I know I'll live on just hearing your voice

So doubt not its power just let it flow
I'm revived, refreshed by your voice's glpw

The first duty of love is to listen.

~ Paul Tillich ~

Sven

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since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

1 posted 2001-05-05 08:55 PM

a wonderful source to draw from Sir. . . and I would challenge our fellow parents to do the same. . . be inspired by the great poets of the age that is. . .

excellent. . .

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

Paula Finn
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since 2000-06-17

Posts 5546
missouri

2 posted 2001-05-05 11:02 PM

There is no need to compare...you are a poet in your own right sir...and a wonderfully sensitive gifted one at that...this is lovely...

Corinne
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since 1999-10-28

Posts 5167
state of confusion

3 posted 2001-05-06 12:45 PM

No choice to be made,
no matter the pain,
love is the choice
we don't make,
but crave - even
as the last sun
set
sets.

One of your best, Bill. Stunning work.

Cor

Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

4 posted 2001-05-06 01:27 AM

This sonnet is truly your own. Joyce

Martie

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

5 posted 2001-05-06 12:35 PM

Bill--Very beautiful!

latin passion
Senior Member

since 2001-04-26

Posts 576

6 posted 2001-05-06 01:43 PM

So wonderfully written my friend. LP

Day in Day out...My love for you grows.
Without you, my life would be empty. So I hold my mustard seed of faith in us.

Mabel A. Dilley
Senior Member

since 2001-03-17

Posts 859
Seattle, WA, USA

7 posted 2001-05-06 02:20 PM

The voice of an angel...your own.

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

Wilfred Yeats
Member Elite

since 2000-08-04

Posts 2704
Wilmington, Delaware

8 posted 2001-05-07 03:12 PM

I'm truly truly grateful for all your kind words - thank you so much

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