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When Asked What I Write
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When Asked What I Write |
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Temptress
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-06-15
Posts 7136Mobile, AL 
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If I could touch the hand of poetry just once a night all my thoughts would be spilled and I would be rested. These thoughts, like love letters to my desire just drown me, enveloping every moment I have to share in unbridled need. When people ask me what I write I tell them poetry, and now that is even an understatement. What to say to those with a curiosity about this talent that is my breath? Shall I tell them I write, not poetry, but detailed testimonies of my heart and soul filling moments with explanation of moments. I walk daily on the edge of collapsing on the ground in thanks to God for every second felt every measurement of things seen by my eyes and every sound heard by these all too sensitive ears. I yearn to make more expression than these written words and to be great in my endeavour to achieve the ability to give my words to multitudes of souls that yearn the same and share this great and complicated humanity with me. What can I say when they ask me what I write? Shall I say what I write is every measure I can muster of my passion, and that even that is sometimes not sufficient? The ground I walk on is made of words and I am succeptible to every emotion amplified a thousand times louder within my patient heart. When they ask me what I write I tell them Poetry and then I try to convey that I also breathe it that I would sleep with a pen and write on my sheets were dreams to come that move me enough. that I would give up the company of greater loves to be in the sole company of whispering papers and be a voyuer to the passion of my pen and any surface that would embrace it. No Poety is not word enough for what lives and breathes after the blood of my pen has been spent. And the many years, days, and hours that I have spent in search is not worthy enough time to have put in that I should be given the power of such descriptive gifts. So for now I write poetry. It is the vehicle for my written whims and the love that keeps me living. No truer love have I ever known, but that of God and my poetry. Sometimes the heart needs the solace of solitude and silence. |
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The Lady of Shallot Senior Member
since 2001-10-03
Posts 818USA |
This, this is a tribute and a masterpiece to any poet anywhere. It is a glorious indication of a soul who has embraced and cherishes the right and the freedom of expression and the gift she has. I applaud you and thank you for posting this. It is one of the truly most indepth pieces relating to poetry and why we write it and I would like to thank Ron for having this forum so that people can come here and express themselves. and thank you for this one. -befriend yourself and you will never be alone- |
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Dark Angel Member Patricius
since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095 |
WOW! Powerful and wonderful and YES I can relate. The passion in this knocked me of my chair! I love it! Maree  |
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Dark Angel Member Patricius
since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095 |
adding to my library |
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Poet deVine
Administrator
Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
Jenn..this is incredible.SUBMIT!!  |
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Mistletoe Angel 
since 2000-12-17
Posts 32816Portland, Oregon |
 (big hugggsssssss) Yes, yes, yes, and your beautiful heart always sings with love! (sigh) Your poetry is always so lovely and beautiful to read! (kiss on cheek) You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Jennifer, thank you for sharing! May love and light always shine upon you! Love, Noah Eaton |
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The Lady of Shallot Senior Member
since 2001-10-03
Posts 818USA |
yes, by all means, submit this, frame it, guard it, thank you again for this! -befriend yourself and you will never be alone- |
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Startime Member Ascendant
since 2000-10-03
Posts 5918Canada |
STANDING OVATION!!!!This is truly a masterpiece. Absolutely wonderful. I love it. You have said it perfectly.  Love I leave with you whether it is in your life now or yet the essense of your dreams. |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
you heard the people. . . do it. . . this is the most incredible thing that I've ever read from you. . .for so many reasons. . . -------------------------------------------------------------- To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world. |
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Martie
Moderator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Jenn...you have spoken the heart of the poet, written the passion of writing poetry and the need to explain the unexplainable. Awesome writing!!! |
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Greeneyes
since 2000-09-09
Posts 9903In Your Poetic Mind |
If I could touch the hand of poetry just once a night all my thoughts would be spilled and I would be rested" the knowledge you gain in writing and releasing feelings and emotions....this is powerful and so well written.....a keeper.... keep writing!!Lauren~ I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. Anne Frank 09*12*01 [This message has been edited by Greeneyes (edited 11-07-2001).] |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
No...you don't write poetry....you write your heart, your soul, you inner feelings, desires, needs. You write everything that is felt....and yes...is poetry....and music. |
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Nan
Administrator
Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
Wonderful, Jenn - I've seen your work evolve beautifully over the past few years - I'm duly impressed, m'friend.. Just keep on writing...  |
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Kit McCallum
Administrator
Member Laureate
since 2000-04-30
Posts 14774Ontario, Canada |
Oh Jenn ... this is truly splendid! Such an emotive write ... I could relate to so many of these lines you penned. You've captured a poets heart and life, with such beautiful expression. Very much enjoyed! Best wishes, /Kit |
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Songbird Member Elite
since 1999-12-15
Posts 2184Missouri |
And my what a poet your are! This is fantastic.. and I don't think that is a strong enough word..as it is beyond that. I believe it is your best..you write it with such passion. |
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weaubleau Member
since 2000-04-06
Posts 101MO |
many, many, many, of your poems have i read before, but none so great as this one. not even close. this is a wonderful piece of...poetry...or whatever it is that you write... if i had your pen and your paper, i WOULD sleep with it at night. i enjoyed this so much that i have printed it out to hang on my wall...and when someone reads it, i will watch with regret...regretting that i was not the author. |
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weaubleau Member
since 2000-04-06
Posts 101MO |
as i started to sign-off tonight, i realized that as i thought about how beautiful this poem was and what it meant to me, i failed to consider your privacy... please forgive me, i have thrown away the copy of this poem that i printed out and it will not be hanging on my wall. again, i'm sorry for my spontaneous actions, and i can assure you that this won't happen again. but i will visit this poem everyday until it is forever written in my mind. |
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Irish Rose Member Patricius
since 2000-04-06
Posts 10263 |
proud of this, proud of YOU...this speaks for so many. Kathleen |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
wonderful.... your talent for expressing the thoughts and ideas is always amazing to me. |
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RSWells Member Elite
since 2001-06-17
Posts 2533 |
This walk you take on fields of words and compulsion to reach and pluck from it's endless selections I understand. The time lost to sleep where too much escapes our grasp, the need through desire to write, the frustration of mundane everyday interference of this obsession. The pure need to inhale it's myriad offerings and exhale your soul. Gotta Love it! "Happy people have no history" - French Proverb |
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Auguste
since 2000-02-16
Posts 3953By the sea |
I know this feeling all too well, Jennifer. A pad with pen are on my night table in case I should wake in the night and not be able to sleep. I live poetrym, as you do. It is part of us and there's no shaking it. I loved this. You described my own feelings so well. Just wonderful, my friend. *hugs* Michael Michael Auguste~ |
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