I Drink Tonight of Passion

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Martie

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California

0 posted 2002-02-12 09:52 PM

I Drink Tonight of Passion
(To the cowboy)

"If and when Pen and quill
have come and gone mixed with passions ink
and gone is here to taunt makes the poets swill
in which we all drink"

then I drink of it tonight
not swill but draught delight
and fathom mixed bouquet of gold
stirred with luna’s golden light

As cherubs dance across the pool
in rainbows sky splashed view
I drink a nectar made from
sweetest love each drop like dew

The crickets hum in rhythm
to the closing of the day
and I open up my honeyed coat
to you my love this way

I drain the heat of afternoon
and touch it to the ground
transplant the blooming roses fall
caress its satin gown

to gather up and empty out
each day does life imbibe
that curling in your lap so warm
is poetry divine

to breathe out all the fragile hairs
and brush them ‘til they glow
with celestial spark and angel dust
then braid them in a row

Oh ‘tis harsh to think of so much gone
when so much here is pulsing
and dreams lay wait on cotton sheets
to capture time’s composing

so delicate the fiber
of the minutes fragile skin
that to let one pass unnoticed
is the most tremendous sin

So I drink tonight of Passion
stirred with luna’s golden light
and I whisper sweet my poet’s breath
into the waning light.
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from Mark Bohannan's Challange
5-2000

[This message has been edited by Martie (02-12-2002 09:59 PM).]

Balladeer

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1 posted 2002-02-12 09:58 PM

This is spectacular, Martie....very well done. The title alone is worth the price of admission but the poem is well worthy of it. Good work....(and the pic is awesome!!!

)

Mistletoe Angel

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Portland, Oregon

2 posted 2002-02-12 10:02 PM

(smiles) You are soooooooo romantic, sweet friend, your gorgeous words always ake me smile in delight, this is passionately beautiful! (kiss on cheek) We all love you so much, sweet friend, may you forever sip with your love from the chalice of golden true love! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Martie, thank you for sharing!

May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

Madame Chipmunk
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since 2001-12-05

Posts 8296
Michigan

3 posted 2002-02-12 10:05 PM

Passionately beautiful, Martie...

and I like your new picture also!

copyright2002 Lyra Nesius

"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

brianbeaudry
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since 2001-07-20

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Northern Ontario Canada

4 posted 2002-02-12 10:08 PM

I read it like a song, it flowed with the music of poetic passion!!! Amazing post!!!!

Enchantress
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Canada eh.

5 posted 2002-02-12 10:15 PM

OH Martie!!! Now you just KNOW I love it! Right? Right! You are amazing.
~Hugs, Nancy~

~Love transcends time and space~

Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

6 posted 2002-02-12 10:49 PM

The cowboy did leave his inspire behind, didn't he!? A good one to repost for the season, Martie, a very good one, indeed! Hugs to you, Flower Girl!

Janet Marie
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since 2000-01-22

Posts 18554

7 posted 2002-02-13 12:26 PM

I know that

will be

big time when I tell him you reposted this.
Yes..he inspires wonderful things in his friends & fellow poets pens...and is missed around here for his love of poetry, his replies and his wonderful brand of MC poems.

And anytime we get to drink from your ink...we are in for a treat.

Some find subtlety in strangers,
some find subtlety in alone.
Your eyes, you see everything,
my eyes, I see it all together now ... and I know.

Interloper

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since 2000-11-06

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Deep in the heart

8 posted 2002-02-13 12:54 PM

I'd say a challenge well met!

Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart and write.

Dark Stranger
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since 2001-03-19

Posts 13631
West Coast

9 posted 2002-02-13 03:04 PM

eros and sipped nector
in lady skin touch
a pleasure to review

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