A Song [Dedicated to Martie & Meghan]

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Sunshine

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0 posted 2004-01-13 07:16 PM

A Song

This humming sound comes across
As a mother’s lullaby
For somewhere on the wind
A gay profusion
Of scarlet ribbons
Brings me to humming, again…

In simple silence these eyes fill
As one simple term now turns
to all that was, and now is gone,
A gay profusion
Like blossoms blood red,
Are haunting, just like the song

Slow the melody fills the silence
The humming sounds not like mine
A voice, a touch
From other years
As a gay profusion
Fills my mind

Would I count these scarlet ribbons,
Feel life beneath its satin?
Would its deepest red
Then fill my soul
Though sleep
Escapes my bed.

Here it is, the sound once more
The hum of lullabies
As gay profusions
Of memories
Flit through
Nighttime skies.

If I were to live
To two hundred
The mystery would still be there
For words such as gay profusion
Would be entwined
In each child’s hair.

~*~

Based on the song, "Scarlet Ribbons"

[This message has been edited by Sunshine (01-13-2004 11:31 PM).]

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1 posted 2004-01-13 07:19 PM

The beauty of this song you sing....so sad that behind it there is that slow and quiet drum....

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2 posted 2004-01-14 01:37 AM

I remember that song, I loved it. There was a sense of sadness here, just like the song. Enjoyed.

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3 posted 2004-01-14 03:16 AM

wow...this is incredible...such bittersweetness

Sunshine

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4 posted 2004-01-14 09:15 AM

Thank you, good poets. For Martie, this is a song of remembrance; and for Meghan, it was meant to once again fit along her challenge of a song's impact on one's self.

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5 posted 2004-01-14 11:26 AM

What a beautiful, touching write... an honor to one... and a well-met challenge to another. *S*

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6 posted 2004-01-14 11:29 AM

So very beautiful...
And this was always one of my favourite songs.
~Heart Hugs~

In the midst of winter..
I found there lives within me,
an invincible summer.

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7 posted 2004-01-14 04:35 PM

Thanks for e-mailing me this, otherwise I would've missed it for real. I love the way this is worded, it flows nicely, and it's catchy to my eyes. Love it.

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8 posted 2004-01-14 04:38 PM

Hi Sunshine! My mother used to sing "Scarlett Ribbons to me when I was a child." Lovely song and an even more lovely poem!

Corinne

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