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On The Wings Of Butterflies |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
I don't need a hundred scented candles burning, for I can see your eyes in one single flames glow. I don't need to read anymore poetry ... for your rhymes of me ... told me all I ever need to know. No longer do I need love songs ... no need for the lyric or melody. For the first time I heard your voice, I heard angels sing and knew inner harmony. I've no need for orange glow sunsets ... no need for twilight skies streaked in violet hues. No need for azure linen clouds of lace ... all these things pale next to my need for you. No longer do I wish on silvered diamond falling stars, nor do I gaze at the neon moon so blue. I don't search the indigo midnight sky ... hoping to catch a glimpse of you. I don't feel you in the rain's shimmering mist, nor in the sun's golden fingers that bronze my skin. None of nature's beauty can compare ... to the place where I keep you deep with in. You are the crystalline oceans that rise up inside of me, together we lie on my soul's white beaches of sand. You are the ivory tides that pull at my beings gravity, the moment I touched infinite ... was the moment you touched my hand. No longer do I need the things that mortal love brings ... for I found completion when I saw my own reflection in your eyes. And all the contentment I will ever need or hope to dream ... will be found where you lie inside of me ... and on the wings of butterflies. Janet Marie for DeVante' ... my beautiful butterfly ~Butterflies Are Meant To Be Free~ There are places inside our souls - that have never been touched. There are places inside our hearts - that need to be loved this much. ~jm~ |
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Mark Bohannan Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-21
Posts 7269In the winds of Cherokee song |
Oh my sweet friend, I do so love it when you write for your deVante. The love shared between the two of you will never grow dim as it grows in the fertile soils of the heavens and will forever light up the night time sky. This is so lovely my friend and YOU do KNOW that I KNOW...hugs to you my dearest friend and please never quit writing wtih the golden feathered quill. It serves you well. |
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vlraynes Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-25
Posts 8229Somewhere... out there... |
Janet Marie- oh my...this is absolutely beautiful.  a love such as this that you share with DeVante' will never fade. this truly touched my heart, my friend. hugs, -vicky "...until you have read the verse on his heart, you have not truely met the poet." -vlraynes |
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snowpants Member Elite
since 2000-09-16
Posts 2061KS |
'No longer do I need love songs ... no need for the lyric or melody. For the first time I heard your voice, I heard angels sing and knew inner harmony.' Wow, JM! So lovely and romantic! I love it!! sp Do not go where the path may lead, but instead, go where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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brian madden Member Elite
since 2000-05-06
Posts 4374ireland |
Magical... wow this one has me breathless Eve, STunningly beautiful... "an afixiation a fix on anything the line of life the limb of a tree the hands of he and the promise that s/he is blessed among women". Patti Smith |
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Butterflies_dont_cry Member Elite
since 2000-03-06
Posts 3733Michigan |
The tears are streaming down my face my sweet SS...Oh My...this is so beautiful Jan...I know I say that about all of his poems but this one...I'm without words for this one...and you KNOW baby that when that happens after 3 Carmel Grooooooooooovy's that I've been touched right down to my soul.... *Butterfly Kiss* Fluttering Breezes Whisper of heaven's sweet breath Dusted with loves light *Angelwing Hugs* Feathery Cover Hearts joined in softest embrace Quiet comforts touch Yep...that's what this one is.... Love ya sweet girlie! |
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Kethry Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-29
Posts 9082Victoria Australia |
"Exquisite" Kethry Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. Gail Sheehy |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
JM, Few if any get to fly And I do not know the why. But you my friend have flown the abyss On the smallest touch and a kiss. You fly the sky on etheral wave The eternity of the brave. Your fan and friend. Sy Winliewinkie. |
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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
This is beautiful!!! Would you allow it to be printed in the Valentine issue of Digital Passions? It's incredibly lovely!  |
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peppermint35 Senior Member
since 2000-05-28
Posts 1106Texas, USA |
So lovely...it makes the heart sigh in happy contentment Pepper "I honor the place in you, that when you are in that place, and I am in that place in me, we are in the same place" Ram Dass |
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Victoria
since 2000-08-12
Posts 5869 |
Beautiful as always Janet Marie..and what a romantic name he has too.. ~Victoria~ A poem is never finished, only abandoned. - Paul Valery (1871-1945) |
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ellie LeJeune Member Elite
since 2000-01-10
Posts 4156King of Prussia, PA USA |
Dear Jan; Ah, a love so grand, a love so magnificent, that it has made your gift of poetry soar on the wings of the same buteerflies you write of! Love, Ellie le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne con-nait point....the heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.. |
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Bill Charles Member Patricius
since 2000-07-11
Posts 10619highways, & byways, for now |
Janet Marie - a very strongly written poem about feelings, for sure. I did enjoy this very much. Bill |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Janet--the images you paint of your feelings are as timeless as your love for DeVante'...this is exquisite, my friend...and inspired writing! |
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Aimster Member Elite
since 2000-02-19
Posts 4297Charlotte, NC |
Janny-- this was beautiful!! touched me very much deep within. my baby sis writes poetry too and i share some of your work with her. she said to tell you wow! you left her speechless. i ditto what she said. this is def one of my favorites of yours. love ya! ~amy~ |
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Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
JanetMarie~ Within the chrysalis of DeVante ... you've tenderly encased the loving memories. You are at your finest when he emerges and flits around ~ landing on your blossoming thoughts. *Hugs* ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ noles1@totcon.com |
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juliet_2u Senior Member
since 2000-07-23
Posts 1125North Carolina |
Oh Janet there are no words to describe this well enough. It's just full of stunning beauty. Love & hugs, Juls |
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A Whisper's Caress Senior Member
since 2000-11-03
Posts 791on the horizon of a fairytale |
What a loving gesture to to someone whose eyes are seen in a single candle's flame. |
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Elizabeth Santos Member Rara Avis
since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269Pennsylvania |
This is so beautiful from beginning to end, but especially the ending. So tender and full of love and written with your magic touch, it all makes for an exquisite poem Liz |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
Mark ...thank you baby...and yes I do know... that you know ... and as said before ... it gives quiet comfort. Thank you for always understanding and celebrating him with me. Vicky ... thank you for such a wonderful reply, yes he will never fade in me or my poetry.Thank you for letting me know he touches you thru me. snowpants... thank you for the lovely reply ...its so nice to have you stop by. Bri-gator ...thanks for the stunning reply ...breathless is a good thing in poetry  Holly.... yes..I do know sweetie...and thank you for always seeing him in me and always being so moved by him... thank you for the beautiful Haikus....they are perfect... gotta try the raspberry tea sometime...lol Kethry ... thank you for the exquisite ..and for the read. Sy-guy... thank you for the beautiful .. all knowing, all accpeting verse ....it is perfect thank you for the winkiewinkie too.... Sharon ... thank you so very much..for this special reply and request... yes, I would be honored to have this as part of the newsletter... thank you for asking, let me know what I need to do to for that, if anything. pepper....thank you for the contented relpy... and for stopping by. Victoria....thankyou for the kind words..and yes isnt his name poetically perfect.. I love to say it and hear its grace. Ellie.....hello sweet poet...so nice to have you come by...thank you dear.. and Im so glad you saw this one....I love sharing him with you. Bill... thank you poet sir ...yes many emotions ...Im pleased you enjoyed thanks for stopping in to read. Martie ... thank you for such an exquisite reply...yes, he is my sweetest muse. Amy and lil sis....Thank you ...how sweet of both of you....thanks sweetie ...hope lil sis wil post sometime...i happen to KNOW poetry runs in the family Margie....thank you SO much for such a butterfly of a reply *smile* ... and for seeing him as my finest Jules....thank you for such a stunning reply....sometimes no words are needed. Whisper...thank you and welcome to passions ..nice to meet you..lovely screen name. thank you all for these beautiful replies love ya jm |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
Lizzie.... I missed ya while I was typing... thank you my sweet poet.. an exquisite from you means so much to me. |
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shadow of poetry Member
since 2000-07-22
Posts 76midwest usa |
I don't need to read anymore poetry ... for your rhymes of me ... told me all I ever need to know. sis that one line hits me hard and it says it all, his poems for you were so special, so love filled and heartwrencing, and knowing how you eat live and breathe poetry as you do, for you to write that line, it really touched me. Jan this is one of the most beautiful poems i have ever read and i hope you know im not saying this cuz your my sister, or cause im over here at your house on your computer haha for-real, this is one of your best of him. i live for the day someone prints all your poems of him so i can have them all together in a collection. the moment I touched infinite ... was the moment you touched my hand. No longer do I need the things that mortal love brings ... for I found completion when I saw my own reflection in your eyes. And all the contentment I will ever need or hope to dream ... will be found where you lie inside of me ... and on the wings of butterflies. those lines are so full of devante that its like hes here in the room i think its gonna be a cry-sunday, turn on the stereo and get out the kleenex love you big seeeeestur and no you cant have your computer back yet im just getting started, go cook me some lunch haha my sister is the poet I am but a shadow. by the light of poetry I read then dream |
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Poetboy96 Junior Member
since 2000-11-05
Posts 12 |
I am new here and I don't know who this DeVante is, but who ever it is must have a great place in your heart....in your soul. What a wonderful writing. Thank you for letting my eyes view it. |
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SpitFire Member Elite
since 2000-04-19
Posts 2396 |
~Sweet Janet Marie,...I'm shaken by the beauty and power of your words, I always am. I read you more than you know,...always do,...your poems are so amazing, I'm almost intimidated from replying to their strength. You have both reached and moved me with your work. Take care and thank you for sharing yourself here. *Peace. |
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shadow of poetry Member
since 2000-07-22
Posts 76midwest usa |
so call me blonde, i just noticed i forgot to check the box to put this one in my library dont say a word haha |
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EagleOne Member Elite
since 2000-03-07
Posts 2829Between a laugh and a tear... |
"I don't need a hundred scented candles burning, for I can see your eyes in one single flames glow. I don't need to read anymore poetry ... for your rhymes of me ... told me all I ever need to know" Wow! You do know how good this is don't you Janet? Fabulous! "The heart and soul have no illusion of boundries when friendship is the quest" ~ My Angel. |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
lil sis ...thank you my blonde girlie.. you made it worth you stealing my puter all afternoon with this beautiful reply. thank you for celebrating him with me always. love you too. poetboy96 ... welcome to passions and thank you for such a wonderful, compliment, nice to have you and your eyes here Spitfire... my goodness what a wonderful reply...you make me feel like I could fly and trust me when I tell you your poetry nor your replies "lack strength" ... I understand what you are saying tho ... I too read many more poems than I have time to reply to...thank you SO much for this gracious one you left me today. Eagle ... thank you very much for the fabulous reply and what "I know" is that it felt VERY GOOD to write it...I leave the judging of "how" good it is up to my fellow poets... thank you my kind friend. thank you all for these beautiful replies love ya jm |
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Rosemary J. Gwaltney Senior Member
since 1999-08-26
Posts 997northern mountains, Idaho |
I just saw this, and absolutely fell in love with it! Lovely! Absolutely beautiful love poem! Well written, and sweet. What a treat!!!!!! |
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The Poetic Plumber Junior Member
since 2000-11-05
Posts 38 |
I was very moved by your writing. You have great poetic expression. Thank You! Roger |
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tracie66 Member Elite
since 2000-01-18
Posts 4713Australia |
Beautiful poem from a beautiful heart for a beautiful soul ...well penned lovely heart winged ~HUGS~ Janny Love Tracie~ Love is the life of the soul... It is the harmony of the universe |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
Rosemary...thank you so much for this beautiful, sweet reply ....its so nice to see your name here again. Roger ... welcome to passions and thank you much for such a kind reply. Its nice to meet you. Tracie ....hi sweetie... thanks for always reading and leaving me a smile thanks to all love ya jm |
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compassion Member
since 2000-11-01
Posts 135USA |
JM, ** This is so beautiful. My words can do justice to what it says to me. Awesome... went looking for your poem,'driving,centerline', will find it tonight but do love this one! |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
compassion...welcome to passions and thank you so very much, I am very complimented that you would seek out my work... I look forward to being able to see your work.I have seen many of your enthusiastic replies on various poets work, ita obvious you love poetry. take care JM thanks to all who replied to this... this poem has become very special to me for many reasons.. but mostly due to his presence in me that allows me to write of him like this.. somethings never leave us ... somethings never should. I love you Vante ... always. There are places inside our souls - that have never been touched. There are places inside our hearts - that need to be loved this much. ~jm~ |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
This is incredibly lovely... I'd try to find words to do it justice if I could see through the tears. *S* |
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Parker Member Elite
since 2000-01-06
Posts 3129ON |
Janet, another wonderful heart poem for your DeVante... I know he lives in you. Parker |
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Interloper
since 2000-11-06
Posts 8369Deep in the heart |
I can add nothing to what was said above. God bless you and keep DeVante. Love is. |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Never let it be said that you don't put the whip cream topping on the brownie fudge desert... seriously, this is a remarkable piece, may I place it in my library? THANKS! Karilea If I whisper, will you listen?... I would rather be silent and write, then speak loudly and be bound. KRJ |
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SEA
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Member Seraphic
since 2000-01-18
Posts 22676with you |
Janet~ everything you write is poetic gold.....I just love the sway and flow of this..... -SEA |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
southern ...thank you VERYmuch...I always feel your sincerity in your replies ... your tears do him all the justice that needs be said. P-man ... thank you sweets....I know he is indeed my sweetest muse and when i am given the gift thru him to write of him...I feel him there... so where ya been anyway ...missed ya Interloper..thank you very much and bless you for this wondeful reply welcome to passions. Sun.....I would be very honored to be in your library...I know I will be in oustanding company...THANK YOU for the remarkable reply.. Sea...thank you sweetie...your replies are poetic gold thanks again to all for these wonderful accepting replies love ya all in poetry land jm There are places inside our souls - that have never been touched. There are places inside our hearts - that need to be loved this much. ~jm~ |
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Butterflies_dont_cry Member Elite
since 2000-03-06
Posts 3733Michigan |
I needed the kiss of butterfly wings today... I love seeing him live on in every breath you weave sweet SS~ |
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ethome Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858New Brunswick Canada |
You knocked the poet right out of yourself in the first part then you proceeded to put it right back in with more eloquence than ever.. I have to say I was worried I thought you'd fallen in love and you were going to forget about poetry......then I thought ..this is Janet you're talking about and it's not possible for the most wonderful man in the world to take the poetry out of her...so I relaxed and read the rest of the poem which turned into a thing of beauty......very very well done!! my kindhearted poet friend....I thought it was VANtastic!! |
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Jenn E Senior Member
since 2000-08-02
Posts 589Kelowna, BC, Canada |
Janet, I love how he lives inside you........I am in awe of your heart and how you feel and how you turn what could be "sad and heavy" to the heart into strength and beauty.......I look up to you in so many ways...but also know that it all does not come without a price. Beautiful read. Thank you for being you...... Jenn E |
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BloomingRose Member Elite
since 2000-08-09
Posts 3092Florida |
JM~ This is very romantic, and extremely beautiful. One of your best yet! Deb |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
Holly girl..THANK YOU ....your butterfly kisses are welcome here as often as you like...love ya me SSE-babes....you are so right...nothing or no one will ever take the place of poetry in me..thank you for such an all knowing and accepting reply my dear friend. Jenn, thank you very much for such a warm sweet reply...I promise theres no emotional cost when I write of him...I celebrate him and the way he inspires me. Deb...thank you for such a beautiful reply...and for the high compliment. this one is special to me. thank you sweet poets...very much jm |
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Marina Member Elite
since 2000-02-10
Posts 2245Pickering, Ontario |
Thanks for the "heads up" on this one!! You know how much I LOVE DeVante's visits!!! Jan, I think this is got to be one of my all time favourites of yours. He brings imagery to your pen like no muse I have seen. "Butterflies are meant to be free" and he shall be free for always and captured only in your heart for as long as your thoughts are with him. Another for my Library collection of a dear soul, I have yet to meet... Marina It is a blessing to have wings for words, and passion in pen Marina Crossley |
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Greeneyes
since 2000-09-09
Posts 9903In Your Poetic Mind |
how your words touch all my emotions.....and fill my eyes with tears.....I have enjoyed all your soul touches..... Greeneyes "Within you I lose myself Without you I find myself Wanting to be lost again." -Unknown |
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jwesley Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563Spring, Texas |
Well, JM, I keep seeing this thing pop back up to the top and shaking my head & saying ...yep, knew it'd be back...so decided to go back for another reread and browse the responses. It took three browses top to bottom before I realized...MINE WAS NOT THERE! OOPS! or Whoops! or Who Erased Mine!... dunno where it went me friend...just knew I had written somethin' in there...so solly! Exquisite (or how ever that word's spelled) as usual from you, long time favorite of mine. One day, maybe I'll learn a thing or three from you. jwesley |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Jan---I could've sworn I replied to this--must have been an e mail. This, included with the others, his and yours, would make a truly cherished book of love--the gentle loyalty and beauty of this is astonishing and poignant. I'm in awe, me twin. Hugs to you. |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
Marina...thank you sweets.....I always love the way you celebrate him with me.. ya make me smile greeneyes....thank you very much...and I yours.... JW....its never too late to say something so wonderful...thank you very much sir. Sen...baby..you know the party dont start till you get here... and you know I already know before you say it thank you for such a beautiful idea and for always just being there...always knowing love ya thank you seems too little to say to all these replies as well.... my love and respect to all here....always... jm There are places inside our souls - that have never been touched. There are places inside our hearts - that need to be loved this much. ~jm~ |
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Kit McCallum
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Member Laureate
since 2000-04-30
Posts 14774Ontario, Canada |
"No longer do I wish on silvered diamond falling stars, nor do I gaze at the neon moon so blue. I don't search the indigo midnight sky ... hoping to catch a glimpse of you." "You are the crystalline oceans that rise up inside of me, together we lie on my soul's white beaches of sand. You are the ivory tides that pull at my beings gravity, the moment I touched infinite ... was the moment you touched my hand." Sigh ... JM, this is just magical! What a beautifully enchanting read, with so many wonderfully descriptive lines. Your heart shines through this so brilliantly. What a lovely tribute to DeVante' Best wishes, /Kit |
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poetic_imperfection Junior Member
since 2000-11-01
Posts 45 |
I am new here and I am just trying o keep up and reply to all these poems. There are so many good ones. I have to say that this one is perfection. I'm not sure who this Vante is but I felt that love that you must have shared. You are a very lucky woman to have felt that kind of love and the way you returned that love leaves me breathless. The way it sounds he has past away and left a beautiful part of him within your heart and soul. If this is the case, one day you will reunite and what a day that will be. I apologize if I spoke out too much, I would never mean to hurt anyones feelings. Wonderful poem my friend. PW |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
One person in this world - just one, would be so lucky to have felt like this even once. How very lucky you were. I have made it a mission to read and print all the Butterfly series poems can you tell? Morning Jan. |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
Forgive my return but sometimes I just have to dig to find something I can sink my mind and heart into. You fill me up Jan, like no other can with your words. This especially is to me very spiritual in the pureness of the words chosen to describe a feeling that indeed fills a heart to the brim. "You are the crystalline oceans that rise up inside of me, together we lie on my soul's white beaches of sand. You are the ivory tides that pull at my beings gravity, the moment I touched infinite ... was the moment you touched my hand." |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
Yup, just me again, can you tell it is a favorite of mine? |
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EagleOne Member Elite
since 2000-03-07
Posts 2829Between a laugh and a tear... |
This still takes my breath away! |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
No longer do I need the things that mortal love brings ... for I found completion when I saw my own reflection in your eyes. And all the contentment I will ever need or hope to dream ... will be found where you lie inside of me ... and on the wings of butterflies. Just needed this tonight - glad it was here. |
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EmmaRose Senior Member
since 2011-03-02
Posts 1376Midwest |
55? wow |
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