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Bill Charles
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since 2000-07-11

Posts 10619
highways, & byways, for now

0 posted 2003-09-28 09:51 AM

“ALL THE FLOWERS”
~~~~
Once when the fragrance of roses
radiated from your hair, and
lilacs soft was the touch of your
skin, your thoughts that whispered
to mine were of the sweetness
of morning glories, and
I loved you then…

Once when we danced close on
a moonlit night a bouquet drifted
on southern breezes warm,
magnolia blossoms tender
was the nearness of hips close,
eyes spoke without words, and
I loved you then…

Yet passions die to whither, ending
within the mist of darkness, as
an ache cries from a fragile
heart inside this being, and all I
can do is ponder, as I search
of where all the flowers have gone,
for ago,
I loved you then…
~~~~
Bill Charles

James_A_Fraser
Senior Member

since 2003-09-03

Posts 972
Out Making Anticlines

1 posted 2003-09-28 09:54 AM

Bill, I think you may be an even more sentimental fellow than I am. I loved every word of this, resonated to every syllable.

Now I'm a more sentimental guy than I am -- or was, ten minutes ago.

~~J

QjQ
Member Elite

since 2003-04-18

Posts 3756
U.S.A.

2 posted 2003-09-28 09:57 AM

terrific write n read,,,,

CP
Junior Member

since 2003-09-28

Posts 17

3 posted 2003-09-28 10:02 AM

I liked this a lot. So pretty.

Chelsea

gemjop
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since 2002-11-18

Posts 2587
Pencilveinia, USA

4 posted 2003-09-28 11:23 AM

Yet passions die to whither, ending
within the mist of darkness, as
an ache cries from a fragile
heart inside this being, and all I
can do is ponder, as I search
of where all the flowers have gone,
for ago,
I loved you then…
~~~~
This read as a song Bill. One that made me want to weep.

another gorgeous, haunting, soul touching write.

~I wanna live, I wanna give, I've been a miner for a heart of gold~ Neil Young

Martie

Moderator

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

5 posted 2003-09-28 11:35 AM

Bill

I love the thought of "ago" being a time...the way you used that word caught me and made me smile. What a poignant poem!

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

6 posted 2003-09-28 12:06 PM

Dear Bill, this is so melancholic, but so beautifully penned.
Love, Margherita

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

7 posted 2003-09-28 12:23 PM

a new and refreshing style for you BC...much loved

Magnus

Member Laureate

since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

8 posted 2003-09-28 12:28 PM

You old mushy romantic....ya really know how
to grab the heart strings and pluck them!!!

Sunnyone
Member Ascendant

since 2000-07-06

Posts 5334
Staffordshire, England

9 posted 2003-09-28 12:28 PM

Oh BC, each time I read you, it is new and surprising! Loved the tenderness, and yet somehow sadness that you wrote into this...~S~

Accept these small gifts from my gypsy heart ~S~

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius

since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

10 posted 2003-09-28 12:28 PM

eyes spoke without words, and
I loved you then…

This gave me chills and made my eyes water.
You've got such a way of displaying the  romance,
and tugging at the heart of lost love.

A beautiful poem BC~

Aimster
Member Elite

since 2000-02-19

Posts 4297
Charlotte, NC

11 posted 2003-09-28 12:30 PM

Bill-

I swear no one can write a love
poem as lovely as you can! your
words just floated off the page
in this one, your descriptions
painting a picture in all of your
minds. Beautiful write.
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~

Mistletoe Angel

Member Empyrean

since 2000-12-17

Posts 32816
Portland, Oregon

12 posted 2003-09-28 03:20 PM

(big hugggssssss) Oh Bill, this is gorgeous yet sad, sweet friend, I hope everything is alright as I have missed talking with you and your golden heart and guitar is forever deserving of strumming true love! (sigh) God Bless You, sweet friend, I send angel hugs your way, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Bill, thank you for sharing!

May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

I don't need no proof when it comes to God and truth
I can see the sun set and I perceive

***Live***

garysgirl

Member Laureate

since 2002-09-29

Posts 19237
Florida, USA

13 posted 2003-09-28 03:27 PM

Bill, I'm so glad that you're a hopeless romantic!!

I love your poetry. I could almost smell the flowers in this one. I hope that soon, you will smell the flowers of love again!!

Hugs

Ethel

SharaRose
Member Elite

since 2003-07-19

Posts 2501
Somewhere out there~

14 posted 2003-09-28 03:42 PM

What Ethel said..I hope so for you, too!

Lovely. And finally someone else says poetry is pretty, too. CP says so, too...hehe

Shara~

Of sound, and speech let all lift the hearer!

hoot_owl_rn
Member Patricius

since 1999-07-05

Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA

15 posted 2003-09-28 05:09 PM

BC...what a haunting verse you write here, beautiful and sad both. Alas, love sometimes is as fragile as the petals from those flowers and as fleeting as the fragrance they leave behind. You write love well

MorninGlory
Member

since 2003-08-30

Posts 175
Oklahoma

16 posted 2003-09-28 06:46 PM

Bill, this is so touching, a sadness throughout, and surely does bring up some memories of my own, I do so try to only remember the good, as it is what keeps me from hating. I just don't want to hate, it hurts me more than anyone else. You have written with sensitivity and even though maybe the sadness is what prevails, you have written this with a wonderful style.

~ becky

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

17 posted 2003-09-28 09:19 PM

Bill...this is filled with such an ache...
but at the same time is so very beautiful!
Love this...yes I do.
~Smiles & Hugs, Nancy~

~ I love your glances meeting mine
across forever or the room ~

nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

18 posted 2003-09-29 05:42 AM

to be loved and appreciated for who we are...a hard combination to find nowadays...

beautiful, Bill

M

Earth Angel
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since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

19 posted 2003-09-29 09:05 AM

BC

EA

littlewing
Member Rara Avis

since 2003-03-02

Posts 9655
New York

20 posted 2003-09-29 09:10 AM

Ohh Bill . . .
this did remind of soo much lost
but found . . .

your thoughts that whispered
to mine were of the sweetness
of morning glories, and
I loved you then…

yes, and still even, right?
beautiful bittersweet
xxoo

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

21 posted 2003-09-29 09:13 AM

It's ok
to let the guard down
now and then...

Ariana
Senior Member

since 2000-10-08

Posts 571
Orlando, Florida

22 posted 2003-09-29 09:45 PM

BC

It is OK to ponder every now and again. Nicely done.

Ariana

Mysteria

Member Laureate

since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

23 posted 2003-09-29 10:27 PM

You know Bill I do believe that this one is by far my favorite of yours. I actually visualized that woman with the flowers in her hair!

Ivy Rose
Senior Member

since 2001-12-29

Posts 1300
MA, USA

24 posted 2003-09-30 06:37 PM

Bill...How beautiful; but how heart-wrenching this poem is. The memory of a love lost...haunting. Your writing is so deeply romantic in nature...shows that, though you have lost one love, there is hope of another romance deep within your heart. ***Ivy Rose

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

25 posted 2003-09-30 07:59 PM

Very nice...James

Susan Caldwell
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

26 posted 2003-09-30 08:14 PM

I don't remember the last time I danced...

This was beautiful Bill...but it made me wistful for what I don't have...

Guess I will just have some chocolate..

Susan

Kethry
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-29

Posts 9082
Victoria Australia

27 posted 2003-10-01 09:08 AM

I loved you then and I love the softness in you now.
Kethry

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

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