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Open Poetry #33

Love Challenged

nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

0 posted 2004-10-19 10:12 AM

Love Challenged

Those thoughts, they stay
not hidden away
but rising every morning,
to let me know I am alive.

They cling to my skin
covering me with you
even if
only in memory.

They reach my fingertips as I touch
and I can still feel the warmth
that penetrated
each time I would feel the softness
of expression
upon your face.

I am love challenged
forgetting what it is,
imagining what I wish...
the two miles apart.

But it is easing ( I say to myself)
less tears than smiles
becoming the norm.

Lingering thoughts
beginning to let go
and soon
the only warmth I will need
will be supplied by a soapstone stove,
an evening's toast,
the bliss of another Winter,
and time.
M

"Love is not blind - It sees more and not less, but because it sees more, it is willing to see less."
(Will Moss)

Susan Caldwell
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

1 posted 2004-10-19 11:57 AM

This is very nice M!

"cast me gently into the morning, for the night has been unkind"
~Sarah McLachlan~

Skyfire

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since 2000-12-27

Posts 3381
Riding

2 posted 2004-10-19 12:32 PM

and then He created the horse...

miscellanea
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since 2004-06-24

Posts 4060
OH

3 posted 2004-10-19 12:50 PM

I feel this deeply, Maureen. You write it well...
hugs, misc'e

quatro
Member

since 2003-04-29

Posts 392
Galveston, Texas

4 posted 2004-10-19 01:24 PM

A new word to my vocabulary "Love Challenged". I like that and it fits me well, almost as well as you have written it. This is a great write!

quatro

DavePage
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since 2003-12-21

Posts 2917

5 posted 2004-10-19 06:07 PM

And an old steel bath
warmed by an old steel bucket

warmed by the west wind

Good words as ever

Dave

jwesley
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since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

6 posted 2004-10-19 08:49 PM

Well, not quite the "only warmth" but, yeah . . . and, yeah.

jimmy

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
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7 posted 2004-10-19 09:29 PM

love that ending

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