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Wilfred Yeats
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since 2000-08-04

Posts 2704
Wilmington, Delaware

0 posted 2001-04-02 04:57 PM

(may be a repost - if so please forgive redundancy )

    Standing at the edge of the water
    It is late and the memory of first buds
    Still fresh in my mind
    The shoots of Forsythia spreading
    Like wild yellow fire along
    Every roadside almost overnight.

    As the lights across the bay
    And around me
    Are slowly quenched
    More stars become visible
    Until they fill the sky
    Like thick snow
    As my thoughts of you
    Burn deeper into my heart
    A shooting star scratches light
    Across this inky firmament

The first duty of love is to listen.

~ Paul Tillich ~

RMW
Senior Member

since 2001-03-21

Posts 1424

1 posted 2001-04-02 04:58 PM

Wilfred...."..a shooting star scratches light..." Excellent. Bob

Mysteria

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since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

2 posted 2001-04-02 05:00 PM

My, this was simply breathtaking, thank you. And I love your quote - so true!

Martie

Moderator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

3 posted 2001-04-02 05:13 PM

Bill--This sounds so pretty!...really liked this phrase: A shooting star scratches light
Across this inky firmament

Lone Wolf
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since 2000-03-16

Posts 5842
Lansing, MI USA

4 posted 2001-04-02 05:14 PM

Very beautiful writing!

All writing comes
by the grace of God.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sven

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since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

5 posted 2001-04-02 06:55 PM

ahhhhhhh. . . mind if I borrow this image tonight Bill????

wonderful Sir. . .

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

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

6 posted 2001-04-03 10:04 AM

OK, WHY does this remind me of Gatsby?

Wilfred Yeats
Member Elite

since 2000-08-04

Posts 2704
Wilmington, Delaware

7 posted 2001-04-03 03:30 PM

Thank you all - I'm happy when I can evoke some good word images - some of you merely brush the keys and each line is loaded -
and Sunshine - you shouldn't be surprised - I'm a Fitzgerald fan too ~S~

Paula Finn
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since 2000-06-17

Posts 5546
missouri

8 posted 2001-04-03 11:14 PM

This is beautiful...simply beautiful

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