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Would you love me if I wasn't a poet contest. Sponsor: Silent One

                                      September 4th, 2023                                        

You always tell me how much you love my poetry but is that the only reason you feel drawn to me? I write Sonnets filled with love and romance for you, adoring stanzas meant to caress your heart and soul, but is it my rhyming words, or me that you cherish? If I no longer wrote about the silvered moon in eclipse, would your soft parted lips still want to cling to mine? I could gladly write all day and night to please you, but if I did not clasp a feathered quill in my hand, I wonder... would you still hold me dear in your life? I sit and write only for you lately. Am I fooling myself to think it's just for the words I scribble on parchment that you've become enthralled with the flair of my pen. What then, my love? If no longer I could compose expressions of devoutness meant for your eyes only. With reverence, I beseech you to love me for who I am. Would you leave me in painful throes of heartache, forsaking my heart when my muse no longer expresses the passionate verses you seek me to scribe for you? Would you love me if I wasn't a poet, darling, scrawling arduous words to describe the beauty of your face, or the changing shades of grey in your wintery eyes? No, dear one. Do not answer the questions I ask of you for to hear your voice deny me of your love, I'd become incapable of ever authoring another affectionate line. I would tear my pages of poetry in half and burn them. Grief-stricken; my tears blurring the ink to ever write again. Despoiled of the will to create even one more quixotic verse.

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Date: 9/6/2023 6:19:00 AM
My good friend, this is a true masterpiece in my standing. A true pleasure to read and enjoy. Another fav.. God bless you.
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Date: 9/7/2023 2:54:00 PM
Robert, you do such honor to my lines with your generous thoughts. Thank you.
Date: 9/5/2023 4:15:00 AM
Yes. I'd still love you :) God bless you with a win. Much love, Gina
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Date: 9/7/2023 2:53:00 PM
That’s such a sweet response. Thanks, Gina.
Date: 9/4/2023 1:45:00 PM
This is so well written Lin, with a hint of a shakespearean tragedy unfolding, I honestly believe love is in the eye of the beholder, not just the poet’s quill, but dammit poetry is very tempting, brilliant cheers David
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Date: 9/7/2023 2:52:00 PM
Thank you for such a wonderful review, David. I believe as you do.
Date: 9/4/2023 1:01:00 PM
well Lin I love you for the amazing poet you are but more importantly for our friendship which carries across the smiles:-) hugs Jan xx
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Date: 9/4/2023 1:19:00 PM
Aww dear Jan. We’ve certainly shared many smiles over the last eight years, even though so many miles separate us. Thanks, Chick.

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