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Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

0 posted 2004-07-16 06:17 PM

Silent Smiles

I wear silence
Like a shroud ~
Some may say I use it,
As if constructing a soaring wall…
                                          But that is not so.
It’s just that
I appreciate silence, you see…
When you’re sitting
Next to me…

It allows my eyes
To peruse your mind
From spaces separating away…from together…

My ears hear your heart beating,
Skipping, as it does,
Now and then…

Silence allows my senses to envision
Where we are in this time,
Then step closer to you with eye time,
Smiling slightly, teeth barely seen, in shy time
Of beliefs to consider, but are

Yet to be.

I wear silence, that I won’t stutter
In wide-green-eyed utter amaze

That you even glanced at me…the first time,
And continue to seek…     ….

And then, when in such vast silence filling us, of us,
Some song begins playing as background
To heartbeat, as
A very quiet tremble of knowing hum
Of all the words left unspoken
Comes to your ear, so that
When the silence is broken…?

I am gowned in your smile.

Corinne
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state of confusion

1 posted 2004-07-16 06:19 PM

Wow. I'm coveting that last line, lady!

A most excellent, peacful write.

Corinne

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Realms of Light

2 posted 2004-07-16 06:23 PM

I'm silently smiling as well...

What a graceful and poetic expression of butterfly loving!

EA

Martie

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California

3 posted 2004-07-16 06:26 PM

Karilea

I wish I had written this!!!!! I hope all is well!

SEA

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with you

4 posted 2004-07-16 06:41 PM

WOW.....
I love the rhymes in here....
and *sigh* this is beautiful

Enchantress
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Canada eh.

5 posted 2004-07-16 06:59 PM

Oh my Karilea...this is exquisite!
And, that last line? Breathtaking!!
A keeper for my Sunshine file.

Hugs~

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

VAS
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since 2000-11-16

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Oregon

6 posted 2004-07-16 07:15 PM

Very tender and thought provoking...that last line is the clincher, for certain!

Whether on the shoal or on the shore,
I'll seek the lighthouse evermore.

Susan
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since 2004-03-27

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walking the surreal

7 posted 2004-07-16 07:25 PM

the last line was such an exquisite ending to a beautiful piece. it elicited an audible mmmmmm from my mouth.

Susan

Happiness isn't something that happens to you, it's created from within you. Joy is a state of mind.

James_A_Fraser
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Out Making Anticlines

8 posted 2004-07-16 07:30 PM

Sweet....

...only word I have for this one, sweet in every way, in every word...and in the silences between.

I know one who often says more with silence than with words, and I savor it even when the silence tells me things I don't want to hear.

~~J

kayjay
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9 posted 2004-07-16 07:51 PM

Such a positive statement of how one soul can lift another's. KJ

Through rubble and trouble and dark of night
The yawn of a dawn will hasten the light

iliana
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since 2003-12-05

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10 posted 2004-07-17 02:15 AM

Sunshine, I just love the feel of this poem and the way you reveal yourself. This is an awesome piece.

....jo

miscellanea
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OH

11 posted 2004-07-17 02:38 AM

I'm astounded by how anyone could capture the beauty of silence as you have. This is amazing poetry. It's great to read you again!
misc'e

EagleOne
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Between a laugh and a tear...

12 posted 2004-07-17 03:23 AM

Wow indeed!

passing shadows
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displaced

13 posted 2004-07-17 05:53 AM

ah...that silence...sigh

Fagin
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Ca

14 posted 2004-07-17 08:41 AM

Silence is the most powerful note I use when I write, Sis... you couldnt have said it better

Ericc
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15 posted 2004-07-17 02:23 PM

Sometimes I wish to pick a single line of yours to emphasize the beauty of your writing...and this always proves too difficult.
Every line is perfect.

Eric

Duncan
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16 posted 2004-07-17 03:30 PM

"I wear silence, that I won’t stutter
In wide-green-eyed utter amaze

That you even glanced at me…the first time,
And continue to seek… ….

And then, when in such vast silence filling us, of us,
Some song begins playing as background
To heartbeat, as
A very quiet tremble of knowing hum
Of all the words left unspoken
Comes to your ear, so that
When the silence is broken…?

I am gowned in your smile."

Hiya Kari
You know how much I appreciate a good ending right??? This one I loved...

suthern

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since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

17 posted 2004-07-19 03:34 PM

I would have appreciated this at any time... but after two long road trips with someone who believes all silences must be filled with mindless chatter?

*sigh* I'm mindless. *S*

Incredibly beautiful write, my friend! *S*

Nightshade

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just out of reach

18 posted 2004-07-19 05:46 PM

Dark Stranger
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West Coast

19 posted 2004-07-19 07:01 PM

sunny smiles
say much without a word

as you do
with what you don't write down

kewl ms sun

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