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The Eyes Have It

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Your eyes have signaled a defeat, despite your words: weak trials to set a victory scene complete with lies, sneers, and bogus smiles -- all hope, all truth, finally fled -- a game unstoppable once started. What‘s left is but a love now dead, sad stories since we met and parted. All lives contain elemental stuff -- romance, drama, and cartoons. Let's have (we suffer through enough) no crying clowns, no blue balloons. But oh! the hurt within those eyes that dam the tears your speech denies!

Copyright © | Year Posted 2011




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Date: 2/6/2020 4:18:00 PM
Good play on words. ;0)
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Date: 5/12/2018 4:11:00 PM
Very nicely worded; I can see why it was featured as POTW. All the best!
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Date: 9/21/2011 3:40:00 PM
Congrats Leo Larry on featured poem this week on PS.. wonderful write to share luv...
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Date: 9/21/2011 8:04:00 AM
Congratulations on your featured poem this week Leo. Love, Carol
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Date: 4/20/2011 12:51:00 PM
Very good! There are so few sonneteers these days, and even fewer good ones. You have a great sensitivity, as well.
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Date: 4/19/2011 3:21:00 PM
Raw emotions !! Sooo sad and dramatic..in a good way that is. Sorry, can't say it right with my words. Very moving !!!
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