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Elizabeth Santos
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since 1999-11-08

Posts 9269
Pennsylvania

0 posted 2004-10-22 02:03 AM

A Note to Emily Dickenson

What sayest thou, of fruitful words
That bent thy laden tree?
Their prime of sweetness in your season
Dangling copiously

No hand outstretched to beg the fruit
No willful praise was flung
Until you left from heaven’s gates
A thirst upon their tongue

For unto death your words took life
And filled the printed page
But mine, though spun around the earth
Will not survive an age

What sayest thou to this my fruit,
That pales beneath your tree?
Would thou desirest succulence
To hang delectably?

Then send a muse on thy behalf
And let my laden tree
Drop ripened sweetness on my page
And I will sign for thee

Elziabeth Santos

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

1 posted 2004-10-22 02:53 AM

wonderfully done!

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

2 posted 2004-10-22 07:40 AM

Elizabeth,
I've asked the same of Poe. LOL Wonderful write.

icebox
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since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

3 posted 2004-10-22 07:46 AM

Very touching. She has always intrigued me.

Toerag
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since 1999-07-29

Posts 5622
Ala bam a

4 posted 2004-10-22 08:16 AM

Lizzy...you are remarkable.....

(Watch out for Sy, he claims Poe actually wrote him back)...

LeeJ
Member Patricius

since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

5 posted 2004-10-22 08:40 AM

wow Liz, this was magnificant perfect rhyme...how do you do it...I believe someone quit influencial has his eyes on you...smiles and hugs...thank you dear lady!

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

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Listening to every heart

6 posted 2004-10-22 08:43 AM

A most sensual note, Lady Santos...
Good morning, and well done!

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

7 posted 2004-10-22 12:31 PM

The liz tree has dropped words for me to delight in, as always.

jennirey
Member

since 2002-01-24

Posts 198
North Richland HillsTx

8 posted 2004-10-22 01:44 PM

Ahh she definatly graced your pages on this write, Wonderfully done.

peppermint35
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since 2000-05-28

Posts 1106
Texas, USA

9 posted 2004-10-23 08:53 AM

an if she could.. I am sure she would..

answer you..

for this is a powerful, well-done write...

kudos

Pepper
"Somewhere, somehow, it should be possible to touch someone and never let go again. To hold someone, not for a moment but forever." Unknown

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