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To Cage a Dove - Sonnet
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To Cage a Dove - Sonnet |
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Elizabeth Santos Member Rara Avis
since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269Pennsylvania 
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To Cage a Dove The voice of love is music from the heart A cherished song so delicately phrased That every lyric word it may impart Becomes a psalm, a message sweetly glazed The winds of love blow endlessly and free And touch upon the cheek of one adored They bring the sound of love’s pure melody With longing strung in every fingered chord So many times the song is never heard So fearful are our hearts when we are young We harbor every treasured loving word And thus the song of love remains unsung To hold within true sentiments of love Would be to cage a lovely mourning dove Elizabeth Santos |
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Titia Geertman Member Ascendant
since 2001-05-07
Posts 5182Netherlands |
******************************************* So many times the song is never heard So fearful are our hearts when we are young We harbor every treasured loving word And thus the song of love remains unsung To hold within true sentiments of love Would be to cage a lovely mourning dove ******************************************* WOW Titia A rose is a rose is a rose...I guess... |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
"...The song of love remains unsung" Indeed... Sometimes I think we should sing that song to echo from the mountaintops... Lest it fail to be heard...  |
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RSWells Member Elite
since 2001-06-17
Posts 2533 |
Beautiful truth. Fear is in Love's equation and to recognoze it may set it free. "Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to decieve" |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Ah, no wonder the door to the cage is left open, then.... this, Lady Santos, is just one of the reasons why you are such an inspiration to many.... thank you for this.... |
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Balladeer
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Aside from the fact that it is a perfect sonnet in every way, that final couplet is brilliant on its own. As always, I continue to bow.... |
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Honeybee Member Ascendant
since 1999-12-26
Posts 5372Ontario, CANADA |
Wow, Liz, this is a perfect and very lovely sonnet! Take care, Melissa~ |
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Irish Rose Member Patricius
since 2000-04-06
Posts 10263 |
wonderful!  [This message has been edited by Irish Rose (edited 07-01-2001).] |
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catalinamoon
since 2000-06-03
Posts 9543The Shores of Alone |
Very pretty sonnet. Nice form, classic words, comes together beautifully. Sandra |
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SmittenKitten Senior Member
since 2001-06-20
Posts 1131where the sky and horizon meet |
So fearful are our hearts when we are young So true....this is a beautiful sonnet Elizabeth |
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Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Elizabeth~ So lovely is your song~  No cage could contain your sonnet of coo~ ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
you make it look so easy. . . I want to write like this. . . just. . .superb. . . really. . . ------------------------------------------------------------- To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world. |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
Sven, me too, me too! Oh but this was the two lines that took hold of my heart and squeezed it like a vice... "To hold within true sentiments of love Would be to cage a lovely mourning dove" Please hurry with a book of poems, my binder here is getting fuller by the second! This was just something else! If I have made you smile today, then I have done my job! ~* Mysteria *~ |
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