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Sweet Nothings
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Sweet Nothings |
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themute Member
since 2006-05-08
Posts 469Maryland 
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By the babbling brook where the high grass grows And the sounds of the water cleanses the days There’s a woman who stands near a cottage home She's watching her children play under the setting sunshine Where the grass is tall and it comes to their waists A boy and a girl they are playing for fireflies It is a firefly night coming on this summers evening The woman’s hair is long and blown soft in the wind She looks over shoulder to see me in the doorway No words can be said on a day such as this A beauty so vast it seems to speak a thousand words a second And such beauty is there with a star in the sky I was lucky and was kind and was good through my days Not heaven not yet but this is what heaven should be As the sounds of the laughter of the children I bore Ring distant for days that seem dreams I call memories As I watch the sun turn to a deep blazing red in the clouds shining gold I look again at my love that’s waiting like silence Seeming distant in thought from the cold blood and violence all around This day is soon to end and like all beginnings I feel like I’m on edge To look down a cliff now and hear no answers to the call The trees now whisper a sonnet to my ears I want it Let me sing the words and send them to my love As a jingle in the night time before sleeping in our bed A kiss a bliss remember I told no one for nothing more And nothing gets me nowhere as nothing has before So when you hear my eyes tell you stories of my crying Left no man sighing and no woman at the door But you know I’d be lying if I said don’t want nothing anymore Then when she hears my nihilistic sonnet she laughs and kisses ‘night Leaving nothing on the floor I am the two-toed wanderer |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
brilliantly written you ARE poetry, my friend |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Enjoyed...James |
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