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Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

0 posted 2003-04-09 11:58 AM

Leave Be

“Let us beware, therefore, of assigning
too narrow limits to the causes which
produce the poetic exaltation of mind.”

William Cullen Bryant
September, 1870
Illustrated Library of
World Poetry

                                        Leave the poet or dreamer
                                        of dream
                                        alone to write with
                                        mystic seam,
                                        alone to chance a love
                                                    rehearsed
                                        in simple line of
                                        poetic verse.

                                        Ah, flight ~ thy soul
                                        takes wing
                                        into the night
                                        and comes to view
                                        the dawn of day
                                        when left to dream
                                        thy written say

                                        Sweet course this quill
                                        doth take,
                                        and speed my soul
                                        to a land of midnight’s shoal
                                        to a feel
                                        that within is real,
                                                  ah,
                                        sweet course, thy
                                        quill doth take

                                        Shall my mind,
                                        then,
                                        be more enhanced
                                        should a lover of read
                                        not
                                        narrow this chance
                                        of what, in view,
                                        as eye perceives,
                                        would beckon me back
                                        and end thy leave.

                                        So if thou cares not
                                        for thy write,
                                        then pray bid me
                                        a fond good night,
                                        and I shall bid you
                                        a fond adieu,
                                        praying that God
                                        will see you through

                                        then I shall turn
                                        and lift up thy quill,
                                        and lend my heart
                                        to my gardens, still.

Sudhir Iyer
Member Ascendant

since 2000-04-26

Posts 6943
Mumbai, India : now in Belgium

1 posted 2003-04-09 12:06 PM

Karilea,
From
Leave the poet or dreamer
of dream
alone to write with
mystic seam,
alone to chance a love
rehearsed
..
..
to
..
..
then I shall turn
and lift up thy quill,
and lend my heart
to my gardens, still.
--------------

Wonderful poetry... applauding the work, my friend...

regards,
sudhir

Nightshade

Member Patricius

since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

2 posted 2003-04-09 12:18 PM

Well now dear Karilea, you must know that I am sitting here staring at the screen in awe! Beautiful. hugs, Chris

"Hope" is the thing with feathers-
that perches in the soul....

-Emily Dickinson

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

3 posted 2003-04-09 01:18 PM

Oh my...OH MY!!... Karilea...How lovely!
So very much enjoyed this today!!
~Smiles & Hugs, Nancy~

~Somewhere in my heart I'm always
dancing with you in the summer rain~

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