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Elizabeth Santos
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since 1999-11-08

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Pennsylvania

0 posted 2006-08-12 12:13 PM

And So I Write

Beneath the silence of a star
With soul asleep, and mind ajar
At times a phrase embedded deep
In wells of thought will slyly creep

A verse may nudge a slumbering head
To somehow topple out of bed
Before the silent song is gone
Within the whisper of a yawn

And so I write - And so I write
Beneath the ceilings of the night
And so I live, as poetry lives
Whatever grains the hourglass sieves

Elizabeth Santos

poettothecars
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since 2006-02-10

Posts 1093
New Zealand

1 posted 2006-08-12 12:17 PM

Until I got to read this line: "And so I live, as poetry lives" , the poem showed no interest to me, but you sure got me in the heart at the end. . . Thanks

a poet who cares

Honeybunch
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since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

2 posted 2006-08-12 12:54 PM

Oh, yes, and we dance too to poetry's tune.
Enjoyed - write on!

FNG
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since 2006-02-07

Posts 477

3 posted 2006-08-12 01:16 AM

"And so I live, as poetry lives
Whatever grains the hourglass sieves"

I love this phrase.

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

4 posted 2006-08-12 04:26 PM

Me too, Liz...in fact I wrote of it recently, but not so beautifully.

Honeybee
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since 1999-12-26

Posts 5372
Ontario, CANADA

5 posted 2006-08-12 04:27 PM

...And I am so glad that you do.....beautifully expressed as always, Liz

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

Magnus

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since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

6 posted 2006-08-12 04:44 PM

Liz...I do so love this poem....such a
great cadence within it...

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

7 posted 2006-08-12 05:34 PM

Elizabeth,
Did that just last night.

passing shadows
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displaced

8 posted 2006-08-12 05:35 PM

and this makes me want to write

divine chaos
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since 2006-07-09

Posts 617
dancing 'neath the moon

9 posted 2006-08-12 05:37 PM

Beneath the silence of a star
With soul asleep, and mind ajar
*************************

I like your mind ajar
lots

there's such a wonderful flowing cadence to this piece, just kinda rolls off the tongue
and leaves a sweet aftertaste

~*Sheli*~

By words the mind is winged
~Aristophanes~

sandgrain
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since 1999-09-21

Posts 3662
Sycamore, IL, USA

10 posted 2006-08-12 07:35 PM

A beautiful piece with words every poet can identify with. There used to be times I was driving or even showering, that words just begged to be written. It's like the low blood sugar syndrome, only instead of food intake, it's word output.

Rae

SmartChick
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since 2001-09-23

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On A Journey To The Unknown

11 posted 2006-08-13 12:03 PM

Elizabeth, you have always been a great inspiration to me. I so emjoy reading your poetry. You keep on writing. And, i will keep on reading.

Nan

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since 1999-05-20

Posts 21191
Cape Cod Massachusetts USA

12 posted 2006-08-13 08:47 AM

Have I ever told you that I envy your talent, Lizzie??

seraphin
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since 2000-09-24

Posts 1004
Michigan

13 posted 2006-08-13 11:36 AM

From first word to last,
I was captured.

Sandra

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

14 posted 2006-08-13 12:41 PM

LovelyLizzyLady~

'A verse may nudge a slumbering head
To somehow topple out of bed
Before the silent song is gone
Within the whisper of a yawn'

And in the tippy-toe of night
sometimes I even get it right~

You rock the rhyme in perfected cadence, lady~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*The sound of a kiss is not as strong as that of a cannon, but it's echo endures much longer*~
Email - [email protected]

Munda
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Posts 3544
The Hague, The Netherlands

15 posted 2006-08-13 03:22 PM

And so you write - and so you write... and you do it so incredibly well.

suthern

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since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

16 posted 2006-08-13 04:25 PM

I'll just sit mosey over next to Nan, nodding my head in agreement. *G*

Balladeer

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Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA

17 posted 2006-08-13 07:00 PM

You don't write, Liz...you blossom.

aziza
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Posts 2995
Lumpy Oatmeal makes me Crazy!

18 posted 2006-08-13 07:27 PM

I have felt this way so many times, and I think you expressed it beautifully.

Thank you.
aziza

PoetAtHeart13
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since 2006-08-11

Posts 24
Maryland

19 posted 2006-08-13 09:13 PM

That was nice.

~Rissa~

LeeJ
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since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

20 posted 2006-08-14 10:09 AM

when ever you write, music seems to flow
quiet sounds so nicely & friendly, poignant touch...Liz, this was so clearly visable...loves whatever grains the houglass sieves....

Interloper

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Deep in the heart

21 posted 2006-08-14 10:40 AM

Well writ

Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart and write.

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