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How Sweet the Moonlight Sleeps Upon This Bank

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! ....delightful she is with beauty in her soft (sensual) music, and whispered I in her lilac-garland ear; With silver-notes upon her feminine spheres, longing with lips endowed with love, in the cool of blue moon, rolling in the bosom of her cosmos; An immortality in her eyes ---- an infinitely brief whisk of sugared tress dangling with pecks and smiles, " See my dear, " said I ---- " heaven has descended upon me " And the nectar of its finest garden, thy cherubin-scent plucked by Aphrodite ---- (no Aries) .... but a servant compared to thee, for none but I upon thy mind, And the mysteries of thy smile assure divine providence; my very marrow in thy heart, not dare I so deserving ---- for death could lay me down to a long, forgotten sleep, My dreams would still breathe thy ginger wind, from lungs delicious thou Goddess springs; my little midnight lover, with the wind in her hair.... thy breath quicker now, with pearl eyes.... And flushed thy moonlight skin, gleaming my little darkling rose, overwhelmed with love.... Then sleeping sweet upon the moonlit bank, how sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this night! **For the SHAKESPEARE contest***

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Date: 5/23/2014 9:42:00 PM
Big congrats on the win my friend!!
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Date: 5/22/2014 1:43:00 AM
just awesome, keith.. special kudos to you for a fine award.. huggs
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Date: 5/21/2014 6:09:00 PM
Very good write.... congrats on your win
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Date: 5/21/2014 3:32:00 PM
Congratulations on your well deserved win, KeitH!!! .. very well written poem... Superb!! :O))
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Date: 5/21/2014 9:50:00 AM
Keith, CONGRATS, on your awesome win......~SKAT~
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Date: 5/20/2014 4:48:00 PM
Fantastic write!! Congrats on the win my friend. A delightful read and it's sentiment flows ever so smoothly!
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Date: 5/16/2014 7:27:00 AM
Amazing write! Congratulations on your win! Lori
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Date: 5/15/2014 9:42:00 PM
Such vivid images you convey in this beauty. Many congrat's on your well deserved win, Keith. Lainie
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Date: 5/15/2014 6:02:00 PM
Beautiful sugary-sweet love poem, Keith! Congratulations! I noted one typo (infinately instead of infinitely) Well done! Cheers, Roy
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Date: 5/15/2014 11:09:00 AM
so, this is what moonlight does to you..what a scenic, uplifting poem with such a compelling ending,keith... S for superb!... huggs
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Keith O.J. Hunt
Date: 5/15/2014 12:35:00 PM
Thanks nette! :-)
Date: 5/14/2014 4:23:00 PM
Mark this is excellent, Merchant of Venice my first time with Shakespeare many years ago and still my favourite, good luck....David
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Keith O.J. Hunt
Date: 5/15/2014 12:37:00 PM
Many thanks Dave!
Date: 5/14/2014 3:30:00 PM
Ah, "The Merchant of Venice." Had to look it up. This is one of the Shakespeare plays I haven't read. Love the quote though!
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Keith O.J. Hunt
Date: 5/15/2014 12:41:00 PM
I guess I should have mentioned which play! Glad you enjoyed Carolyn, I'm quite fond of this piece; my friends said it's about time I 'tackled' some Shakespeare -they call me Littlespear all the time! :-)
Date: 5/14/2014 3:28:00 PM
Dear Keith, Your poem is wonderfully romantic and I can just picture you beneath the moon with your beloved. I am wondering which Shakespeare play your inspiration came. He wrote so many plays and I have enjoyed all of those I've read or seen performed. Perhaps this is a passage I've forgotten from "Romeo and Juliet"? Wishing you success in the contest! (My quote was from Macbeth.) Love, Carolyn
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Keith O.J. Hunt
Date: 5/15/2014 12:43:00 PM
Glad you enjoyed Carolyn! Love, always, Keith
Date: 5/14/2014 2:28:00 PM
Would Shakespeare have done any better!! I doubt it. Top marks for this one, Keith! moonlight sleeps in a most beautiful setting. gl. // paul
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Keith O.J. Hunt
Date: 5/15/2014 12:44:00 PM
Great compliment Paul, I guess the moonlight was right with me when I wrote it!
Date: 5/14/2014 1:13:00 PM
- A really beautiful poem, Keith - Good luck in the contest! - oxox // Anne-Lise :)
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Date: 5/14/2014 11:29:00 AM
Hello Keith, your poem is with beauty... so relaxing, makes me want to gaze a little more... XOX~ Linda
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