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Elizabeth Santos
Member Rara Avis

since 1999-11-08

Posts 9269
Pennsylvania

0 posted 2002-01-12 08:29 AM

Is This a Friend?

Is this a friend, the one you know and love
Whose laughter fills a void within your days?
Bestowing favors, hovering above
Each act and word, embracing all your ways?

No, no, this is no portrait of a friend
But rather a companion of your mind
Acquaintance in your life that in the end
May leave your spirit faltering behind

A friend is one for whom you’ve carved a space
Within the deepest chamber of your heart
And knowing she is always in that place
From which her essence never more will part

A friend is one who sees you on the edge
Of falling into darkness and despair
And leading you so gently from the ledge
In silence takes your place abiding there

A friend is one who dances in the wind
To celebrate the victories of your goal
Engraving golden trophies of your win
Into the fondest memories of her soul

A friend is one who lets you live your days
To be with one you chose to love and wed
She understands you’ve walked your separate ways
And honors your domain, your home , your bed

She joins you at your table, shares your bliss
She takes your children into warm embrace
Then leaves you with a warm and loving kiss
And closes back the door of separate space

A friend can sense a troubled heart afar
Without an invitation to appear
She opens wide the window of your heart
And whispers tender words into your ear

All these things bestowed within your trust
Would be returned to her in equal weight
Not by the scale of obligation thrust
But by the love that stands at friendship’s gate

So difficult a true and loving friend
So blessed is he who has one in the end

Elizabeth Santos

Seymour Tabin
Member Empyrean

since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

1 posted 2002-01-12 08:47 AM

Elizabeth,
They say if a person in a life time has one or two friends, they are very lucky. A wonderful write. Sy

Kethry
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-29

Posts 9082
Victoria Australia

2 posted 2002-01-12 08:56 AM

Elizabeth,
with friends like these...life is complete.
Kethry

Here in the midst of my lonely abyss, a single joy I find...your presence in my mind. Unknown

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

3 posted 2002-01-12 09:23 AM

I know what Sy says is true,
if you have but one, or two
May we both say, my Lady Santos, dear,
we are blessed, as we're surrounded, here

Nan

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-20

Posts 21191
Cape Cod Massachusetts USA

4 posted 2002-01-12 09:36 AM

Indeed - Your words are so very true, Liz... Keeping your best friends close to heart is one of your many graces... YOU are the special one, dear lady..

strbbux
Member Elite

since 2001-12-19

Posts 3859

5 posted 2002-01-12 10:34 AM

Oh Elizabeth, I am so happy to have you as a friend, this was a wonderful tribute to all friends out there. floria

HumbleBee
Member

since 2002-01-06

Posts 52
Kentucky

6 posted 2002-01-12 11:36 AM

Well said...I have a friend as you describe in your poem and I am blessed. Thanks for writing this poem, an excellent description of a true friend.

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

7 posted 2002-01-12 11:40 AM

Liz--So very true, so very you..beautiful!

Denise

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since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

8 posted 2002-01-12 11:49 AM

I am blessed to have you as one of those special friends, Elizabeth. This is beautiful, as is everything you pen! (((HUGS)))

Irish Rose
Member Patricius

since 2000-04-06

Posts 10263

9 posted 2002-01-12 12:19 PM

This is almost like a divine proclamation of a "friend" it's an amazing
analogy of what a friend is. Wonderully done in every way.

Kathleen--(Kay)
A true friend does not love you for who you are, but in spite of who you are." -- Caroline Tran

Mistletoe Angel

Member Empyrean

since 2000-12-17

Posts 32816
Portland, Oregon

10 posted 2002-01-12 01:35 PM

(sigh) Sooooooo beautifully said, sweet friend, the beauty of friendship rings in your loving words! (smiles) True friends always reach out to one another with sincerity and love, and trust each other! We all love you so much, sweet friend, we are all so happy and lucky to have such a sweet loving friend like you! God Bless You! (kiss on cheek) You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Elizabeth, thank you for sharing!

May love and light alway shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

Startime
Member Ascendant

since 2000-10-03

Posts 5918
Canada

11 posted 2002-01-12 01:43 PM

STANDING OVATION!!!YES!!! You have captured it perfectly...that is exactly what a friend is. BRAVO!!! I love it. **big hugs**

Love I leave with you whether it is in your life now or yet the essense of your dreams.

Mysteria

Member Laureate

since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

12 posted 2002-01-12 04:15 PM

This is so special Liz, as you are all of the things required of a true friend mentioned in this poem. I think perhaps that is why you are surrounded in the love of true friends. This is my latest "favorite". I should start the "Santos Pick Of The Week", oh I think I just did, and this is my pick for this week! (hugs)

~*~ Carpe' Diem ~*~

Sven

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since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

13 posted 2002-01-12 10:25 PM

you've done very well here Liz. . .

great job. . .

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

Balladeer

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-05

Posts 25505
Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA

14 posted 2002-01-12 10:56 PM

They say a friend is someone who stands beside you when you're beside yourself....you say it much better. I would like to be counted as one of yours

Magnus

Member Laureate

since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

15 posted 2002-01-12 11:09 PM

I have always said that a friend is someone
who stands beside you when your enemies are
throwing rocks at you...

I believe you have said this...though much
more eloquently than I have..

Well done Liz...very well done..

peppermint35
Senior Member

since 2000-05-28

Posts 1106
Texas, USA

16 posted 2002-01-12 11:43 PM

You have said it all, Elizabeth.. wonderful... and lucky we are to have ONE friend like this..

Hugz,

Pepper
"A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth."
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mother_Earth
Senior Member

since 2000-11-20

Posts 1370
1/2 year Texas & 1/2 year Michigan

17 posted 2002-01-12 11:47 PM

A friend is someone called Elizabeth. Thank you for sharing this, ME

Elizabeth Santos
Member Rara Avis

since 1999-11-08

Posts 9269
Pennsylvania

18 posted 2002-01-13 04:21 AM

Your comments are so warm and loving
This is a place of friendships that will never leave our hearts
Thank you for your kind remarks
Liz

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