Open Poetry #5 |
Under The Same Skies |
hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
Under the same skies, we lay in separate beds; tossing and turning; dreaming of being together. Sixteen Hundred miles between us and our beds become prisons, in which we are shackled in lengths of blankets and sheets, incapable of finding release. The feel of your touch, not yet a memory, still only a fantasy, haunts me and fills me with desire. I breathe your name, breathlessly, into a pillow stained with tears. You call me, in the middle of the night, to hear my voice, because you can not sleep for thinking of me. My voice, your comfort, makes you long for me even more. We whisper to each other as we drift off to sleep, thinking of how, someday, we’ll lay together under the same skies. At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. ~Plato [This message has been edited by hoot_owl_rn (edited 01-22-2000).] |
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Corinne Member Ascendant
since 1999-10-28
Posts 5167state of confusion |
You are a poet of immense passion, Hoot_Owl_M, only one who experiences life to the fullest could fully express such feelings! Corinne |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
Lovely and romantic! This is beautiful, Ruth! Denise |
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Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Ahhhh! Such longing in the night. Two souls sharing the same pillow of comforting love. Hoot, this is soooooo lovely. ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ noles1@totcon.com |
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SEA
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Member Seraphic
since 2000-01-18
Posts 22676with you |
Hoot.... You always seem to touch my heart. I love your writting. This is so beautiful. -SEA |
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Munda Member Elite
since 1999-10-08
Posts 3544The Hague, The Netherlands |
Ruth, as always.....lovely, beautiful, wonderful, romantic.....shall I go on ? |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
Corinne, Marge, Denise, Sea and Munda...thank you all At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. ~Plato |
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Pepper Member Elite
since 1999-08-19
Posts 3079Southern Florida |
This is wonderful Hoot.... |
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Balladeer
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
It gets no better than this, Ruth. Excellent writing indeed. |
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Grandma Jo Member
since 2000-01-02
Posts 51 |
Beautiful, wistful words. Very lovely indeed! |
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Paul Hoekman Member
since 1999-12-28
Posts 382Harwinton Ct. U>S>A> |
Such Longing! Why aren't you together? You leave me wanting to know more very nice. |
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WhtDove Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-22
Posts 9245Illinois |
Ruth! Man oh man, did you ever bring out the longing two distant love birds have! Wonderful! <*\\\>< Where there is faith, there is love. Where there is love, there is peace. Where there is peace, there is GOD. Where there is GOD, there is no need. Hallmark |
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First__Knight Senior Member
since 1999-11-08
Posts 678 |
Oh my dear. I feel every word that you have wrote here. I can hardly live each day knowing that you are under my sky...that in each night as I look at the moon. You see the same as I. Though I can not touch your hand...or feel your lips. My heart knows you well, as I echo these feelings in the halls of my own heart. It crys so often now and as I called you last night....you put the comfort back in my day.....my life. We will be together soon and the touch I need.....the touch only you can give....it is in that touch that I find me. I love you Ruth and thank you for this lovely lovely poem Drive it like you stole it...LOL And another thing...When I rev my engine I want people to think the world is coming to a end....hehehe |
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One Who Understands Member
since 2000-01-20
Posts 251Cedar Rapids, Iowa |
I have been moved once more by a poet that has the ability to take my heart, and speak to it like a father to son... Thank you hoot_owl_rn |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
Pepper...thank you Balladeer...what praise from your hands and it brings a smile to my face Grandma Jo...thank you, yes wistful Whtdove..why thank you, it's easy to express when you feel it so strongly Paul...he's in Texas, I'm in Pa...still a matter of working some things out ....thanks One Who Understands...I wouldn't understand that....I'm more used to the mother talking to the son bit Thanks David...Someday our skies shall be as one. Such beautiful words you leave me to find when I return home from work |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
This is so beautiful Ruth. Your longing love makes such lovely poetry, think what it will be like when you finally are together! |
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Dark Angel Member Patricius
since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095 |
Oh Ruth, such passion!!! the longing the loving, its beautiful!! makes me want to cry! What comes from the heart goes to the heart. Samuel Coleridge |
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Bad Boy Member
since 2000-01-23
Posts 78 |
AAhhh That was great You really do have a with word`s. What a lucky man he is. May all your wishes come true. The Devil Made Me Do It. |
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Skyfyre Senior Member
since 1999-08-15
Posts 1906Sitting in Michael's Lap |
Oh Ruth! This made my heart go pitter patter -- I felt your desire! Well done, and may those 1600 miles melt away soon! --Kess Full fathom five thy father lies, Of his bones are coral made, Those are pearls that were his eyes; Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange... --William Shakespeare, from The Tempest |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
Martie, badboy, DA and Skyfire...thank you all |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Hoot Owl this is so fabulous. So alluring and romantic. James |
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