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hoot_owl_rn
Member Patricius

since 1999-07-05

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Glen Hope, PA USA

0 posted 2006-05-11 05:14 PM

Beneath The Trees

Beneath the trees my true love lies
Beneath these gray and cloud cast skies
And I can not repress my cries
Or dam the tears that fill my eyes

I curse the heavens, curse the rain
Which mirrors my relentless pain
A cruel and steady, sad refrain
That tips the scales this side of sane

I mutter words not understood
Here in these leafless, winter woods
I’d trade him places if I could
I live, but it is he that should

I pray for death, insanely cry
"I should have been the one to die!"
My life was spared, please tell me why
Beneath the trees my true love lies

I am nothing special...and my name will soon be forgotten,but I've loved another with all my heart and soul,and to me,this has always been enough.~N.S

© Copyright 2006 Ruth Kephart - All Rights Reserved

Paul Wilson

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Posts 4711
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1 posted 2006-05-11 05:23 PM

Ruth...Sad but so tenderly written. Enjoyed...Paul

~~To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you~~
Paul

Titia Geertman
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since 2001-05-07

Posts 5182
Netherlands

2 posted 2006-05-11 05:26 PM

Went straight to my heart, beautiful words you've penned down Ruth.

Like scattered leaves...my words will flow

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

3 posted 2006-05-12 07:52 AM

This reminds me of an antebellum poem
with jasmime in the breeze.

Beautiful, Ruth.

S Arthur Grey
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since 2001-03-19

Posts 719
woven by a poet's loom

4 posted 2006-05-12 01:08 PM

A well wrought lament.
I can hear the wail !

Honeybee
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since 1999-12-26

Posts 5372
Ontario, CANADA

5 posted 2006-05-13 03:30 PM

Powerful and sadly beautiful.....This one is a keeper ~ It's good to read you again, Ruth, I've always admired your talent

Melissa~

Intellectually I know that Canada is no better than any other country. Emotionally I KNOW that Canada is the best country in the world!

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

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6 posted 2006-05-13 04:25 PM

very touching write...I love it

OwlSA
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since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

7 posted 2006-05-14 02:27 PM

Sadly beautiful. I'm sorry you are hurting.

- Owl

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