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Nothing shines endlessly

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Do not fall in love with people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth. I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave, you will finally understand, why storms are named after people. Caitlyn Siehl In this episode of suppression, I refuse to speak, as you know words could flow in sorrows. But a melancholic mind is the nemesis of a poet. Forcing fingers to bleed raindrop tears into ink, where metaphors are an adversary and you don't need to confess that there are no more verses that can be called sacred when crimson waterfalls flow in veins, so, I curse my merciless muse, which ignores the heart's plea ..... yet, I wonder if there can be love without poetry. Once, when my garden nourished snowdrops, upon the arrival of robins in spring, I was your golden orb, but you no longer bask in my glory and impatient crows follow my footsteps. Now that you've bloomed, it feels as though my purpose has been abruptly stolen. I curse those premeditated prophecies, spoken from an omniscient tongue, so I wander like Cupid without arrows, mute like a flutist without a flute. Hoping to sleep forever in an asylum of wildflowers you have left behind. Upon the return of silence, I'm no longer the thorns upon your rose stalk. Once strong branches reveal empty nests, as my roots become exposed over cold earth. covered with autumn leaves - I feel their anguish as the breeze scatters them under oblivious feet. You were forbidden, but I was not the only sinner. Never powerful enough to become the ringmaster in your circus - I hope you never tame. I'm trapped within an aura, resembling cremated affirmations - yet, I know my spirit will ignite again. I remember when you only saw the moon, so I paraded for you a galaxy of stars. But just like planktons on a beach - nothing shines endlessly.

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Date: 10/19/2024 8:56:00 AM
SO, I often think of how wonderful things have a dose of sadness attached somewhere that gets dispensed unavoidably. As I am reading this I can think of all sorts of pain I have felt during my own life. You make it impossible to fend off these old thoughts. Lucky that over time we can come to grips with all that happens if we are strong enough. It's not easy to maintain a good attitude about loss and rejection, but I do think it's possible and your realization about endings helps.
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Date: 10/15/2024 3:58:00 AM
Dear Silent One, you send arrows into the air. They pierce and cause bleeding in the hearts. Your pain, your heartache and sense of loss, your frustration and longing slowly get infiltrated into our hearts and sink down as pieces of heavy lead. What power for your words. As Shelley says, "The sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought". I feel that, if you had not loved and known the pangs of rejected love, you could have never written such soul hitting poems. "I'm trapped within an aura, resembling cremated affirmations - yet, I know my spirit will ignite again." Glad that your poem has ended on a positive note.
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Date: 10/12/2024 1:38:00 PM
Wow. What great images of heartbreak. I think it would be nice though to at least have felt love as powerful as this regardless of how it ended. Not something I ever knew.
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Date: 10/11/2024 4:54:00 PM
I see this has done very well for you, reminiscent of the days when your poetry ruled the roost (you're too modest to ever admit it). It's beautifully written free verse poetry and that's what you excel at. Your final stanzas are always so poignant and this one's no exception. I like the song too. I remember it well
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Date: 10/10/2024 6:24:00 PM
Deep emotions this provokes of loss, yet it stays with us.... enjoyed reading
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Date: 10/9/2024 8:27:00 AM
Dear SO, I love it when a poem uses so many well-placed metaphors that speak from the heart. The emotions of grief, sadness, and loss pour through each line. Many paradoxical thoughts send the mind into contemplation. WELL INKED!! - Autumn Blessings, My Dear Friend, Daniel
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Date: 10/9/2024 12:35:00 AM
There are so many reflections encapsulated in this magical write! But, I love this line, the most "I wonder if there could be love without poetry" Just like an ember without fuel, love will die without poetry. The voice of the poet compliments well with the profound beauty of this masterpiece! A fave for me!
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Date: 10/7/2024 3:09:00 PM
Silent One, your words will always shine whether bright or with pain or any emotion you have. You are a brilliant writer. This is an excellent poem! :)
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Date: 10/7/2024 10:36:00 AM
SO, this poem and your pain comes from the depths of your wounded soul where your song and your poetry grieve for love in epic sadness. I love the way you ask if poetry can be written without love. Each line drips with your poetic prowess - "trapped within an aura." Amazing. Even if this isn't true for you at this moment, you would have to had such an experience to write about with such eloquence. If this is for a contest, best wishes. Blessings of comfort.
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Date: 10/7/2024 6:50:00 AM
Surreal and filled with broken reflections, mysterious and collecting tears in faucets of mellow dreams. So beautiful, such music to breath, poetry in each sigh, stirring the heart, rousing the light, brilliant as a smile... love it. God bless you sweet friend. Love, Gina
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Date: 10/7/2024 6:37:00 AM
And yet, Silent One, your words do shone endlessly! I am in awe of your poetic prowess and I do admire you so. My words fail me as to express what I feel!! A Happy Monday to you sir!!
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Date: 10/7/2024 5:08:00 AM
Touching poetry that tugs at my heart:)
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Date: 10/6/2024 10:44:00 PM
Your sad, haunting tale of unrequited love is very tenderly and beautifully expressed, Silent One. The final verse provided a fitting ending. Very best wishes.
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Date: 10/6/2024 3:42:00 PM
I truly find it so hard to comment on such a masterpiece! Lines of a huge weight thoughts and feelings with a meticulous power of choosing the so suitable words for so unique situations.. All poets do write on the sufferings of Love but YOU Silent One has created through your words, through your poetry other facets of Love unpredictable we have just to follow the feel, listen to the words beat and savour a world of your creation.. An artistry beyond the norm! A true treat to read! God bless you
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Date: 10/6/2024 2:06:00 PM
Silent One after reading all the wonderful comments I think Lasaad said it more eloquently than I could ever say. He is spot on, on what you wrote and conveyed. You are an exceptional messenger of words phrases, and expressions. Your mental fortitude to convey is to greatly admire. So glad you are writing again. God bless you my friend...
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Date: 10/6/2024 12:54:00 PM
This is such beautifully woven poetry.
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Date: 10/6/2024 12:48:00 PM
"You were forbidden, but I was not the only sinner. Never powerful enough to become the ringmaster in your circus - I hope you never tame." -- Wow! Whether dealing with nature or man, too nearness is always forbidden...God's personal domain. "I remember when you only saw the moon, so I paraded for you a galaxy of stars. But just like planktons on a beach - nothing shines endlessly." Nothing outside of ourselves for certain. Yes, in a seed, in a blossom, in the falling petals, we are alike.
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Date: 10/6/2024 12:40:00 PM
Another masterpiece of a write. The top is great where you have, "And when I leave, you will finally understand, why storms are named after people." So sad but so true. Love your line, "yet, I wonder if there can be love without poetry." Answer, no. Love/poetry go hand in hand... Hope you are OK. Have missed you. Have a blessed/fun week writing away.........................
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Date: 10/6/2024 12:11:00 PM
Hmm and yet endlessly is..And eternity knows The answer.' Si thats my response as i dig into Memories and your enticing lines.'
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Date: 10/6/2024 11:58:00 AM
A song that I played often. phyl
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Date: 10/6/2024 11:57:00 AM
The struggles of unrequited love that was never meant to be. Excellent write. love phyl
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Date: 10/6/2024 11:35:00 AM
"Weaving verses in gardens of nourished snowdrops", The luster of your muse shines bright Silent, Well done
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Date: 10/6/2024 11:25:00 AM
Wonderful poem explores themes of unrequited love, artistic struggle, and the complexities of emotional expression. It reflects the speaker's deep sorrow and frustration in the face of lost inspiration and love, questioning the possibility of love existing without the beauty of poetry. You always shine dear friend
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Date: 10/6/2024 5:29:00 AM
Wow.. that was beautiful Silent! And so nice to hear your voice for the very first time my friend!
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Date: 10/5/2024 9:19:00 AM
a splendid take on paradoxical thoughts where cremated affirmations, cupid without arrows stand out...an affection both gentle and feisty...you enthrall once more, S !
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