Song (Response to Rossetti)

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Severn
Member Rara Avis

since 1999-07-17

Posts 7704

0 posted 1999-09-12 05:09 AM

When I am dead, my dearest,
Make me a part of your body.
Tattoo my words on your memory,
My name on your arm.
Through you I shall see the shadows
Through you I shall feel the rain.

When I am dead, my dearest,
Go to the river where we knelt
That dark dawn and tasted
Salt on each other's lips.
Look at the pulsing water, the
Flickering stone bed, the baby fish.

When I am dead, my dearest,
Don't die with me! I am the wind now,
Cooling your neck at night.
If you wake, and feel me
Touch your warmth, whisper your
Love into the dark.

Michael

Moderator

Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

1 posted 1999-09-12 09:54 AM

Severn,
Wow, this is one of those poems that gives you goose bumps. Gladee you here in the Darkroom. Please share more with us.
I really loved this one.

Michael

moonmoon
Member

since 1999-08-13

Posts 277
TX , USA

2 posted 1999-09-12 01:35 PM

A passionately dark love song...Loved it Severn ..Thanks..

~one voice~
Senior Member

since 1999-07-08

Posts 664
Billings, MT USA

3 posted 1999-09-12 03:36 PM

Goose bumps indeed!!! Eerie and chillingly beautiful! Great work, Severn!

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~onevoice~

"Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior."

JennyLee
Senior Member

since 1999-09-01

Posts 1461
Northwestern, NJ.

4 posted 1999-09-13 09:09 PM

This is very haunting and beautiful.

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Helewes

Beki
Senior Member

since 1999-09-15

Posts 1569
Newport Beach, CA, USA

5 posted 1999-09-16 09:05 PM

Thi has such a lovely haunting quality to it, and with all the tenderness and compassion of a great love too...beautiful piece Severn. :-)

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"We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion.....the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?"
--John Keating, Dead Poets Society

gOdeSslOve
Junior Member

since 1999-09-12

Posts 23
Santa Clara CA

6 posted 1999-09-16 10:34 PM

Oooohhh.... really nice Savern..
I liked it alot

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AmOr y Salud,
gOddeSslOve

Christopher

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-02

Posts 8296
Purgatorial Incarceration

7 posted 1999-09-18 10:01 PM

I guess I'll have to step into the darkness more often. Thanks DE for giving me that URL. I didn't realize the caliber of talent in here!
severn- this tells me that when you die, you really wont, because you will live on in memory if not body.
Well done girl!

Severn
Member Rara Avis

since 1999-07-17

Posts 7704

8 posted 1999-09-25 06:49 AM

SHOCK HORROR!
This isn't my work!!!!
This is my friend's - we use the same computer occasionally and she musn't have changed to her passwords - Seaangel must take all the credit. She's a damn good writer. But, heh, thanks for the invitation Michael - I'm tempted to post here myself!!!!

[This message has been edited by Severn (edited 09-25-1999).]

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