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Logan
Senior Member

since 2001-05-28

Posts 1641
Arkansas

0 posted 2001-06-20 01:42 AM

Softly falls the rain, gently clinging
Leaves trembling slightly to the touch.
Footsteps echoing down the silent street
Streetlights glowing in a halo of mist

Your face appears and recedes in the soft glow
Different angles, changing expressions
Laughter that now mocks with its silvery tones
Knowing the sound is not meant for me

Yet your face continues to haunt me
With dreams of yesteryear, unbidden but there
The moisture on my face, not entirely cloud borne
Hidden from sight, but not from the soul

Leave me will-o-wisp, leave my thoughts in peace
Disappear back into the misty world where you hid
Locked in memories past where I thought you kept
Set my soul free to love again with tenderness

Like a clap of thunder, the thought came to me
That was the past, that was yesterday, not the NOW
The NOW is where I live, tomorrow will yet be
Maybe, just maybe I can live and love again.

JLR
Senior Member

since 2001-02-04

Posts 1785

1 posted 2001-06-20 02:10 AM

All any of us can ask for...to love, again.

Paula Finn
Member Ascendant

since 2000-06-17

Posts 5546
missouri

2 posted 2001-06-20 02:20 AM

Ah Logan...NOW is all we ever have...long hard road to reach that point but there it is....

Mysteria

Member Laureate

since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

3 posted 2001-06-20 02:57 AM

I wish you love. A very gentle poem indeed.

~*~ Tell someone you love them today, as tomorrow may never come ~*~

Marge Tindal

Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

4 posted 2001-06-20 06:02 AM

Logan~
Poignantly lovely thoughts ...
~*Marge*~

~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
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catalinamoon

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-06-03

Posts 9543
The Shores of Alone

5 posted 2001-06-20 07:27 AM

Doing it again, Logan, reading my thoughts. You speak this with a knowledge born of pain.
Excellent write.
Sandra

Janet Marie
Member Laureate

since 2000-01-22

Posts 18554

6 posted 2001-06-20 07:32 AM

this is a lovely bittersweet write Logan...
the imagery and emotions are very well expressed ...
and the hope at the end...perfect

Fancy
Member

since 2001-06-05

Posts 189
TN/USA

7 posted 2001-06-20 08:10 AM

....what a lovely ending of hope...enjoyed..

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

8 posted 2001-06-20 08:44 AM

Great teling of a moment of realization... enjoy the perspective and the writing.

ethome
Member Patricius

since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

9 posted 2001-06-20 12:02 PM

Oh I think you will and the experience will help you process it all in your poetic mind....good poem!

The role of poetry is to utter the un-utterable; to open up
spaces of consciousness and resistance; to language oppressions; to
re-language historie

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