Diana Burkholder Poet Iambic Pentameter

Love Song Ii

Within, without, the
sound of hope
decries,
a place so soft, so
small it begs to
live
in heart - in mind.
In sea of calm set
sail
to dream of spell so
sweet; so kind this
home,
and still this spot.
To touch this grace,
as when
we die; to rest in
sleep before this
dawn becomes
this day. And still
we are as love to
one
to join within one
soul. As if one
heart
could know its place
- inside one soul
alone.
If you could be but
one close thing, as
near
to me as GOD, in
raptured awe my
heart
would sing; to bless
your breath in
sweet, sweet psalm.

August 9, 2014

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Poet Destroyer A August 20, 2014 at 9:51 AM Diana, love the win.... LINDA

Dr. Upma A. Sharma August 20, 2014 at 6:32 AM Wonderful song Diana! Congrats on huge win!

Jan Allison August 20, 2014 at 2:24 AM many congratulations on your great win:-) Hugs Jan

Kika Ayala August 20, 2014 at 12:41 AM Beautiful write! Congratulations on a well-deserved win! Regards, Kika

Tim Smith August 19, 2014 at 11:23 PM A great win...congrats Tim

Roy Jerden August 19, 2014 at 7:11 PM Dunno what happened, but your poem is wrapping again???

Casarah Nance August 19, 2014 at 6:03 PM wonderful, Grats on your win! What a great learning contest this way, :) great job

Andrea Dietrich August 19, 2014 at 4:09 PM This was nice. And I love how you used enjambment and good meter in it. Congrats for your win. Diana Burkholder August 19, 2014 at 4:32 PM Andrea, thank you for your kind comment. I have been writing my entire life by instinct alone, but it is so interesting to be in a place where I can be tuned into a broader experience through the theories and concepts of how poetry works. Blessings D.

Roy Jerden August 19, 2014 at 3:56 PM Congratulations, Diana! You may remove the scansion, now, if you like. Cheers, Roy Diana Burkholder August 19, 2014 at 4:34 PM Hi Roy, thank you so much for your help with getting this up in the correct format. It was a fun and exciting learning experience. Blessings D.

Diana Burkholder August 13, 2014 at 7:11 AM Hi Mystic Rose, I hope this move people in the way it was meant. What I am trying to convey is the dichotomy of the feeling of intense love for another, which can never be as close as one's relationship to God. I do not forget that we all have *just* a tiny human piece of God within, and that is about the best we can do and yet to me we are all an expression of God - there in all of us, to see or not, in the way He reveals himself. My choice is to see this or not. Blessings, Diana