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Re: Favorite Poems
08/06/2007, 9:59 AM
Pushing this thread back to the top for Chandra and others. . .

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Re: Favorite Poems
07/10/2007, 7:16 PM
This was originally posted by brewmax on the community forum.

La Vita Nuova

In that book which is
My memory . . .
On the first page
That is the chapter when
I first met you
Appear the words . . .
Here begins a new life

- Dante Alighieri

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Re: Favorite Poems
06/11/2007, 6:04 AM
This was originally posted by brewmax on the community forum.

Hope springs eternal! :)

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Re: Favorite Poems
06/10/2007, 8:35 PM
This was originally posted by Mary Hennessy on the community forum.

That's why it moved me so much...Susie was 61 and I was 57 when we met.

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Re: Favorite Poems
06/10/2007, 5:55 PM
This was originally posted by brewmax on the community forum.

Mary, I really enjoyed that. . . may have special meaning to us in the "over 50" crowd! :)

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Re: Favorite Poems
06/10/2007, 4:58 PM
This was originally posted by Mary Hennessy on the community forum.

I love this poem:
AT LAST

Author: Elizabeth Akers Allen

At last, when all the summer shine
That warmed life's early hours is past,
Your loving fingers seek for mine
And hold them close at last at last!
Not oft the robin comes to build
Its nest upon the leafless bough
By autumn robbed, by winter chilled,
But you, dear heart, you love me now.

Though there are shadows on my brow
And furrows on my cheek, in truth,
The marks where Time's remorseless plough
Broke up the blooming sward of Youth,
Though fled is every girlish grace
Might win or hold a lover's vow,
Despite my sad and faded face,
And darkened heart, you love me now!

I count no more my wasted tears;
They left no echo of their fall;
I mourn no more my lonesome years;
This blessed hour atones for all.
I fear not all that Time or Fate
May bring to burden heart or brow,
Strong in the love that came so late,
Our souls shall keep it always now!

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Re: Favorite Poems
06/07/2007, 12:56 PM
This was originally posted by brewmax on the community forum.

Something I came upon recently regarding how just one word from a new love can make everything seem alright again when your world has been spinning. Since most of us here enjoy writing, it seemed appropriate to share. . .

What Love Is This?

What love is this that makes me whole
and sing with such great gladness
when just one word, typed or said,
can stop the seeming madness?

I see your face before me
a thousand times a day
And each and every single time
in such a brand new way.

Your image in my eyes or mind
is such a joy to see,
I can't begin to paint, it seems,
the ways you come to me

Full of life and love and warmth
and kindnesses untold,
The light you bring to me, my love,
is more than I can hold.

It spills all around and over me
like water o'er the rocks,
Bringing sight so I may see
and break out of my box.

You still my soul, give rise to passion,
excite me to no end
You are my love, my paramour,
and yet, you're still my friend.

My hours are filled with hope and dreams
of a life that could still be,
And how I hope that in my arms
you'll soon forever be.

So love me hard and love me soft
and have your way with me
And know that I've freely given to you
far more than my heart's key.

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Re: Favorite Poems
06/07/2007, 11:17 AM
This was originally posted by brewmax on the community forum.

oh, I understand. . . I'll share more too. . .like potato chips, you can't enjoy just one! ;)

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Re: Favorite Poems
06/06/2007, 9:53 PM
This was originally posted by Mel and Tonja on the community forum.

I know this if supposed to be my favorite poem, Brewmax, but it was so hard to choose just one. I had to add a second one.


I carry your heart with me
by E.E.Cummings

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling
i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)


Mel

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Re: Favorite Poems
06/06/2007, 9:53 PM
This was originally posted by Mel and Tonja on the community forum.

I know this if supposed to be my favorite poem, Brewmax, but it was so hard to choose just one. I had to add a second one.


I carry your heart with me
by E.E.Cummings

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling
i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)


Mel

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Re: Favorite Poems
06/06/2007, 9:39 PM
This was originally posted by Mel and Tonja on the community forum.

The Wind and the Window Flower
Robert Frost

LOVERS, forget your love,
And list to the love of these,
She a window flower,
And he a winter breeze.

When the frosty window veil
Was melted down at noon,
And the cagèd yellow bird
Hung over her in tune,

He marked her through the pane,
He could not help but mark,
And only passed her by,
To come again at dark.

He was a winter wind,
Concerned with ice and snow,
Dead weeds and unmated birds,
And little of love could know.

But he sighed upon the sill,
He gave the sash a shake,
As witness all within
Who lay that night awake.

Perchance he half prevailed
To win her for the flight
From the firelit looking-glass
And warm stove-window light.

But the flower leaned aside
And thought of naught to say,
And morning found the breeze
A hundred miles away.

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Re: Favorite Poems
06/06/2007, 8:59 PM
This was originally posted by marla on the community forum.

When the Roses Speak, I Pay Attention

"As long as we are able to
be extravagant we will be
hugely and damply
extravagant. Then we will drop
foil by foil to the ground. This
is our unalterable task, and we do it
joyfully."

And they went on. "Listen,
the heart-shackles are not, as you think,
death, illness, pain,
unrequited hope, not loneliness, but

lassitude, rue, vainglory, fear, anxiety,
selfishness."

Their fragrance all the while rising
from their blind bodies, making me
spin with joy.

Mary Oliver, from THIRST, 2006

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Re: Favorite Poems
06/06/2007, 8:07 PM
This was originally posted by stephensmom on the community forum.

The Dream Keeper

Bring me all of your dreams,
You dreamer,
Bring me all your
Heart melodies
That I may wrap them
In a blue cloud-cloth
Away from the too-rough fingers
Of the world.
Langston Hughes

Suzanne

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Re: Favorite Poems
06/06/2007, 8:01 PM
This was originally posted by stephensmom on the community forum.

I would rather be
Ashes than dust.

I would rather my spark
should burn out in a magnificent blaze
than it should be stifled in dry-rot.

I would rather be a superb meteor,
every atom of me in a magnificent glow,
than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Man's chief purpose is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.

I shall use my time."
Jack London

Suzanne

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Re: Favorite Poems
06/06/2007, 5:33 PM
This was originally posted by bb bastian on the community forum.

i love you much(most beautiful darling)
more than anyone on the earth and i
like you better than everything in the sky-
sunlight and singing welcome your coming

although winter may be everywhere
with such a silence and such a darkness
no one can quite begin to guess(except my life) the true time of year-

and if what calls itself a world should have
the luck to hear such singing(or glimpse such
sunlight as will leap higher than high
through gayer than gayest someone's heart at your each nearness)everyone certainly would(my
most beautiful darling)believe in nothing but love

-ee cummings

Love the poetry!

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