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Sven

Member Laureate

since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

0 posted 2001-09-04 09:22 PM

*Revised Repost from Open #10*

she has spoken to me
since the dawn of time

        I have known her in her many guises
        through our many lives

muse
        wife
                poet
                        mother
                                   daughter
                                                goddess

                    in each one, she reveals herself to me
                    and in each one, I find my heart
                    in her hands

she gives of her heart freely
she speaks to me in the softest
    and gentlest of tones
        her voice comes to me like unto a
            Seraphim of the highest order

her very presence in time dispels the
            darkness
for it is fixed in the mind of every
            poet who picks up the quill of life
                    to write of his heart

she speaks

"gentle poet of mine heart
            let my words guide thee to the unknown shore
                            though we cannot know each other in this
                                    time and place
                            surely we can in eternity"

and so, I take up my quill in response
        to her voice
                her song
                    her words
        and they become my own
filtered through my heart like
        drops from the river of life

I remember her

she is love
        the love I have lost
                the love I have found
                        the love I have yet to find

thus will she always be
        I will know her name
                I will know not her name
and her presence will warm my heart and soul
                like the rays of the sun
I will carry her
        and she will lift me

she remembers me

                                                the unknown muse

the light of the universe. . .

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

NightShadow
Member

since 2001-09-04

Posts 127
New Jersey

1 posted 2001-09-04 09:27 PM

Wow, thats a real neat poem! I really liked it...great read!

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

2 posted 2001-09-04 09:53 PM

Breathtaking Sven...She will ALWAYS remember you with this one!

~Time has cast a spell on you
so you won't ever forget me~

Alan
Senior Member

since 2000-09-12

Posts 1499
right next door

3 posted 2001-09-04 10:02 PM

Sven....this is good. I really enjoyed it.
alan

Honeybee
Member Ascendant

since 1999-12-26

Posts 5372
Ontario, CANADA

4 posted 2001-09-04 10:04 PM

Gosh, I love the way you write from your heart. This really is something special.

I wish that I could feel life and love and everything so deeply as you! Heck, the Sven Pen rules

Of course, you know that this is going into my ~LARGE~ library which contains almost all of your poems

hugs,
Melissa~

*as a side note: with every use of the genius phrase "Sven Pen" 2 cents goes to the Temptress charity hehehe

But, then again, I AM Jen's manager, so I'm claiming 70% bay-bee

I can't decide which one I am

"Poetry is not an opinion expressed...
it is a song that rises from a bleeding
wound...or a smiling mouth"

~Kahlil Gibran~

Marq
Member

since 1999-10-18

Posts 222

5 posted 2001-09-05 12:42 PM

This is a very nice poem! It has many well thought out lines and was a pleasure to read!

Isis
Member Ascendant

since 1999-09-06

Posts 6296
Sunny Queensland

6 posted 2001-09-05 02:11 AM

I'm at a loss for words on this one? Dreamy, ever young and romantic maybe? Your muse hon is a gift to us all...
Beautiful

Isis

*The greatest warrior is one that does not need to fight* ~Isis~

catalinamoon

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-06-03

Posts 9543
The Shores of Alone

7 posted 2001-09-05 07:37 AM

Oh my friend, this speaks more beautifully than anything recent. Your muse, or your love in time..they are somehow connected. This is so good.
Sandra

Cerenity
Member Elite

since 2000-02-16

Posts 2637
Escondido-California

8 posted 2001-09-05 08:43 AM

Hi Sven,

Yes "speachless" that's it, you always truly amaze me with the total love flowing from your heart, this one is for sure a keeper in my work's of art's folder, thank you friend.

Love, Cerenity

"God doesn't have to be reminded that we exist.
We have to be reminded that He exist!"

(Writer Unknown)

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

9 posted 2001-09-05 08:44 AM

I remember this one, and am so very very glad it came to see the light again - so many new members will appreciate it as well!...

MyEnchanted_Melody
Senior Member

since 2001-05-30

Posts 1106
across the land of dreams. In your heart, I'd always be.

10 posted 2001-09-05 08:52 AM

To the unknown muse.....!?

Is she really unknown when you can trace her form and guises so beautifully....?

Wonderful Sven......and applaud for that muse which siezed the heart of you.....

Thank you

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Sunnyone
Member Ascendant

since 2000-07-06

Posts 5334
Staffordshire, England

11 posted 2001-09-05 11:28 AM

ah, Sven, may your muse continue to light your path, so that you will share these beautiful gems with us who read...

The road goes on forever, and the stories never end...

Tracey
Member Elite

since 2001-08-29

Posts 2808
where insanity meets breeding

12 posted 2001-09-05 12:32 PM

Wow, this is so eloquently written. What a great read

If she who dies with the most toys wins, then can I have some toy boys please?

Sven

Member Laureate

since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

13 posted 2001-09-05 07:24 PM

thank you all my wonderful friends. . . your words are much appreciated. . . I hope to have something new for all of you soon. . .

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

rwood
Member Elite

since 2000-02-29

Posts 3793
Tennessee

14 posted 2001-09-06 06:16 AM

Well..I'm so glad this came back! I missed it on the first go. Sven, this paints a picture of angelic wingspan with you right in the midst of it's soft down. Fact..it would be a visual work of art. As it is a written one. Honed from the heart! I'm keeping this!

Sincerely,
Regina

Kit McCallum

Administrator

Member Laureate

since 2000-04-30

Posts 14774
Ontario, Canada

15 posted 2001-09-06 06:24 AM

"and so, I take up my quill in response
                           to her voice
                                   her song
                                       her words
                           and they become my own
                   filtered through my heart like
                           drops from the river of life"

Ah Sven ... this flows so beautifully! Such a delightful read, and the phrasing is superb. Wonderfully written!

Best wishes,
/Kit

kaile

Member Ascendant

since 2000-02-06

Posts 5146
singapore

16 posted 2001-09-07 12:24 PM

sven,

this tugs deep into my heart and makes me long to write another poem or two immediately...

wayoutwalt
Member Elite

since 1999-06-22

Posts 4870
TEXAS (it's all big)

17 posted 2001-09-07 12:31 PM

its cool when a muse can mean so much cuz that means there is a deeper well to draw on o yuh nice poem

Sven

Member Laureate

since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

18 posted 2001-09-08 11:45 AM

thanks again to everyone for their words. . . this fits in with the "Goddess" series that I'm working on. . .I'm glad that you've enjoyed it. . .

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

Bill Charles
Member Patricius

since 2000-07-11

Posts 10619
highways, & byways, for now

19 posted 2001-09-08 03:00 PM

Sven - a most beautiful writing my friend. I cannot offer a critique, there is none to be found...

BC

Zinsser
Senior Member

since 2001-02-27

Posts 1641
Calif.

20 posted 2001-09-08 03:12 PM

This is perfect!
Chills going on here LOL
~Connie~

anonymous albert ?

Member Elite

since 2001-03-23

Posts 2979

21 posted 2001-09-08 08:31 PM

wOW...such beauty of heart you show in this pieces that you protary...amazing, my friend

if i die before i wake...i pray the Lord my soul to take - when thugs cry-

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