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passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
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0 posted 2006-04-22 05:53 PM

Solitary Ember

I catch an occasional glimpse of your face,
it comes like sun beaming down through
the canopy of the dim forest
piercing my heart with beauty of you

there's a moment of strange pain,
not the kind that tightens the fists
but a certain ache that's just enough
to let me know it still exists.

And some things just don't own reason
but yet I try to answer why
another evening bids farewell
dawn breaks, and still I cry.

What's left to do when love leaves
but to miss it and to remember,
to search for glimpses in the routines
as if trying to see by a solitary ember.

Sooner or later, I'd imagine
love and tears run dry-
another season passes by
still I love, still I cry,
waiting nigh
for the solitary ember to die.

sweetberry
Member

since 2006-03-29

Posts 125

1 posted 2006-04-22 08:04 PM

You've done it again.

"And some things just don't own reason"

I can't explain how many times I, myself have tried to answer 'why'- but came up with a blank. Nice write Miss Dixie

icebox
Member Elite

since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

2 posted 2006-04-22 08:19 PM

"What's left to do when love leaves
but to miss it and to remember"

Oh god is that true or what!

I am always glad to find you here.

Thank you.

WindWalker
Senior Member

since 2001-10-12

Posts 1218

3 posted 2006-04-22 09:01 PM

I really like these lines!!!!!!!!!

"Sooner or later, I'd imagine
love and tears run dry-
another season passes by
still I love, still I cry,
waiting nigh
for the solitary ember to die."

Goldenrose
Member Elite

since 2003-05-30

Posts 3665

4 posted 2006-04-23 10:41 AM

Some embers will never die..yours is too bright to fade...thank you for the words..

Goldenrose.

StevenS
Senior Member

since 2005-09-21

Posts 945
L. A. (Lower Alabama)

5 posted 2006-04-23 11:08 AM

Dixie, I think this is a feeling that we are all too familar with. I just wish for your sake you didn't express it so well. Very beautifully put! :-)

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

6 posted 2006-04-23 12:44 PM

Lovely, passing shadows. I particularly love the images in the title,

"it comes like sun beaming down through
the canopy of the dim forest"

and the last line.

I am sorry you are still hurting, but you have painted a beautiful picture with your pain, that you could never have done, without understanding the core of that pain.

- Owl

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

7 posted 2006-04-23 03:00 PM

"What's left to do when love leaves
but to miss it and to remember,"

Quite right, Dixie, but it is that very missing and remembering that brings on the tears over and over again. I'm not too sure that mine will ever dry but this is an excellent write - well done!

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
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8 posted 2006-04-23 03:06 PM

thank you each
I'm so glad you enjoyed

each one of your comments means a lot to me

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