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Temptress

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-06-15

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Mobile, AL

0 posted 2003-04-10 06:24 PM

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 drown me.
They are like love letters to a desire
that envelopes every moment
I have to share in an unbridled need to create.
I tell them poetry when they ask me what I write
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 explanations 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.

You could hurt me with your bare hands. You could hurt me using the sharp edge of what you say. JEWEL

[This message has been edited by Temptress (04-11-2003 12:48 AM).]

Midnitesun

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Gaia

1 posted 2003-04-10 06:33 PM

Shall I tell them I write, not poetry, but detailed testimonies of my heart and soul
filling moments with explanationws 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.
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Talk about HEART and SOUL!

Joyce Johnson

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2 posted 2003-04-10 07:03 PM

A passionate testimony of the need to write. Joyce

SPIRIT
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3 posted 2003-04-10 07:34 PM

Interesting write and very vote worthy.

Mistletoe Angel

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4 posted 2003-04-10 07:44 PM

(sigh) Oh Jennifer, this is wonderful, sweet friend, we all love the soul you've got lodged in your heart always that has a melody to sing, we are all poets, it's just some are ashamed to admit it! (kiss on cheek) God Bless You, sweet friend, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Jennifer, thank you for sharing!

May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

"Underneath your clothes there's an endless story..."

Shakira

garysgirl

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5 posted 2003-04-10 07:56 PM

Yes, Jennifer, this is wonderful
and has my vote.

"Love makes the world go around"
~with love and hugs from Ethel__GG~

Masked Intruder

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6 posted 2003-04-10 08:22 PM

Bout time!

*grins*

regards2you
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7 posted 2003-04-10 09:57 PM

No one ever captured it quite this well. Felt deeply. I love your writing; this was spellbinding in that each line lead to the other with a need to hear more and have you tell me how I feel.... whoa!

Fabulous.Enjoyed greatly, Hugs, Pat

..without surrender, be on good terms with all persons..
"Desiderata"

carol
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8 posted 2003-04-10 10:06 PM

Temptress, this is very lovely you got my vote

Real friends celebrate in who we are and have faith in all that we can become
Lots of Love
Rita

Justbleu
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9 posted 2003-04-10 10:27 PM

Temptress this is unique and very nice.....
I'm voting!!!
Bridgette

"Somewhere, somehow, it should be possible to touch someone and never let go again. To hold someone, not for a moment but forever." Unknown

Denise

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10 posted 2003-04-10 10:31 PM

Bravo! Jen, this is a powerful testimony of what poetry is to you. Very very well expressed. I wish I had half the passion...

p.s. just one little typo to fix: "explanationws"

waldopepper
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11 posted 2003-04-11 01:36 AM

A true devotion to the remarkable talents that God has freely bestowed. You have responded to the gift in poetic and profound ways.

Moonlight Romeo

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12 posted 2003-04-11 08:20 AM

Aboslutely brilliant. Such power and total abandon to the written word. It gets my vote.

Thank you.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.
--- Albert Camus

Aimster
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13 posted 2003-04-11 08:57 AM

a intense and powerful write on the
need and desire to write! this was both
breath-taking and passionate! such a
wonderful write and you def got my
vote! take care.
amy

"love is like a butterfly--
if you chase it,
it will surely fly away,instead
hold it close and watch it grow into
something beautiful"
~me~

Earth Angel
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14 posted 2003-04-11 10:08 AM

Yes! Yes! Yes! I know whereof you speak--and you spoketh ding dang well at that!

Warm hugs,
EA

JP
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Loomis, CA

15 posted 2003-04-11 10:46 AM

"Poety is not word enough
for what lives and breathes after the blood of my pen has been spent."

wonderful!

I would applaud you but you know the ol' philisophical question; "what is the sound of one moron clapping (or was it one hand? I always get that confused...

oh yeah... votarama!

Yesterday is ash, tomorrow is smoke; only today does the fire burn.
Nil Desperandum, Fata viem invenient

suthern

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16 posted 2003-04-11 01:26 PM

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.

Many may know those feelings... but wouldn't be able to convey them so well. *S* This is wonderful, Temptress... *S*

mysticpoe
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17 posted 2003-04-11 01:28 PM

God and my poetry! Good luck Temptress.

mysticpoe

mysticpoe
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18 posted 2003-04-11 01:29 PM

Sorry, forgot to vote.

mysticpoe

Nan

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19 posted 2003-04-11 08:42 PM

...What MI said...

Enchantress
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Canada eh.

20 posted 2003-04-11 11:36 PM

Wonderful Jenn...I love this!
~Hugs~

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

passing shadows
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21 posted 2003-04-12 03:13 AM

I understand well...very good!

dgvarner
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22 posted 2003-04-12 10:26 AM

Oh yes...this is a keeper...!! Wonderful wonderful stuff!!

I've written on some odd things, and stumbled through the dark of night for "paper" of some sort (LOL), but on my sheets I have never written!

I just love this..!!

hugs, g

"laughter is the shortest distance between two people" - victor borge

nakdthoughts
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Between the Lines

23 posted 2003-04-12 12:17 PM

I don't know how I missed you on here *s
hugs
M

You are such a fine writer.

littlewing
Member Rara Avis

since 2003-03-02

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New York

24 posted 2003-04-13 04:44 AM

Jen - like a second skin . . .
what an amazing write
I love this
You have penned it beautifully
good luck xxoo

Dark Angel
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25 posted 2003-04-13 06:56 AM

Oh this oozes with passion...WOW!

adding this to my library and VOTING!

Maree.

JP
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26 posted 2003-04-16 11:06 AM

bump

Yesterday is ash, tomorrow is smoke; only today does the fire burn.
Nil Desperandum, Fata viem invenient

Sven

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27 posted 2003-04-16 10:00 PM

yeah. . . I'll agree with that "about time!". . .

one of your best. . . will there be more???

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wranx
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28 posted 2003-04-16 11:16 PM

Poetry IS word enough, for me at least

Verve
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29 posted 2003-04-17 08:58 AM

This is really an astouding piece....

You've definitely got my vote.

Cheers!

Denise

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30 posted 2003-04-21 12:29 PM

BUMP!

Rick
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31 posted 2003-04-21 12:45 PM

Temptress, this is truly a wonderful write, poetry or the imagery through words, the music of the heart to be shared by another, souls every desire, emotion, the tears of heartache, the love of a moment, beauties echoing reflection through the eyes, off the inner soul to the blood of pen and words. You have captured and told of but a few moments, you have shared an insight, a gift from self and for that I thank you.
May we all write poetry forever.
I vote with pleasure.

Sincerely
Rick

Rick
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32 posted 2003-04-21 12:47 PM

Temptress, this is truly a wonderful write, poetry or the imagery through words, the music of the heart to be shared by another, souls every desire, emotion, the tears of heartache, the love of a moment, beauties echoing reflection through the eyes, off the inner soul to the blood of pen and words. You have captured and told of but a few moments, you have shared an insight, a gift from self and for that I thank you.
May we all write poetry forever.
I vote with pleasure.

Sincerely
Rick

Jeremy Halstead
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33 posted 2003-04-21 01:19 AM

I honestly don't believe I ever read anything with SO MUCH THOUGHT!!!! Not only the thought(and obviosly intense passion) of your mind but that invoked in my own. I say this because I've never read a poem of this particular persuasion before. A poem inside of a poem about poetry...soooo creative and so sincere...I voted for it...as should others

J.H.

Be it in the truest form, or a desperate lack thereof, fail not to understand that the inspiration is love.

[This message has been edited by Jeremy Halstead (04-21-2003 01:21 AM).]

QjQ
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34 posted 2003-04-21 01:46 PM

I write poetry.
It is the vehicle for my written whims
and the love that keeps me living.

theese lines touch my heart

Irie
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35 posted 2003-04-21 02:04 PM

I'm not even sure where to begin ....
I'm flooded with thougths and emotions.

Profound? Yes!
Aesthetic? Yes!
Simply Perfect? Yes!

Poetry? YES!

They'd be crazy not to put this in the book.
You've got my vote, twice if I could!

~Sheri

"Don't wait for your ship to come in ...
Swim out to it"

bsquirrel

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36 posted 2003-04-24 02:07 PM

Glad to see this in the book!

[This message has been edited by bsquirrel (04-24-2003 02:07 PM).]

junemac
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37 posted 2003-04-24 04:58 PM

oh wow !!!!!!! passion or what ? i think this is deep and powerful and gets my vote. thanks for making my night.
june x

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