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When Love Reckons For a Second Time

When love reckons for a second time,
like a drum, it comes on fast and hard and strong
until two hearts in synch beat passion’s song.

Sometimes second love may gently climb
or ease sure-footed to one’s door
where it sweetly seeps and saturates the soul.

Love the second time is strong and yet it’s soft.
It doesn’t sting or snip.  It listens
and reverberates the whispers of the heart.

July 29, 2014 for the Contest of Nayda Ivette Negron

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Sonia Walker

Date: 9/1/2016 2:50:00 PM

Andrea, congratulations on your placement. A lovely poem to relish. ~ Sonia

Wendy Rycroft

Date: 9/1/2016 2:37:00 PM

Congrats well done x great poem x

Mark Paul Van Der Merwe

Date: 9/1/2016 7:35:00 AM

Fantastically romantic - beautiful write Andrea. Mark

Agnes Krampe

Date: 8/31/2016 3:59:00 PM

Congrats, Andrea. I especially love the last line - just beautiful.

Sandra Haight

Date: 8/31/2016 3:58:00 PM

Beautiful sentiments, Andrea. Congrats on your fine 2nd Place win. Hugs, Sandra

Janice Canerdy

Date: 8/31/2016 3:57:00 PM

A 7 for this winning poem. Congratulations, Andrea. Janice

Nayda Ivette Negron Flores

Date: 8/31/2016 2:11:00 PM

Congratulations Andrea on the placement of the contest.

Phyllis Babcock

Date: 10/23/2014 5:01:00 PM

I like the different types of love and how they enter our hearts. Nice one. love phyl

Maurice Yvonne

Date: 10/6/2014 4:37:00 PM

If I thought I really was a poet and then I read you, I would only ever write again for me and my friends. I once Directed a play about Byron and Shelly. I read both of them and their contemporaries. Those were the days. They wrote epics. When I read Coleridge...In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree...I thought I had died and gone to heaven. You are an amazing writer Andrea...an amazing writer.

Maurice Yvonne

Date: 10/6/2014 4:26:00 PM

My God!!!! This is one of the most beautiful poems I have ever read. I am speechless. Andrea as genourous as you are the truth is when it comes to poetry you are the whole of Negril Beach and I am a single grain. I am going to do something a little unusual now, I am going to fav this and don't you dare ever fav another one of mine. With all my love, Your Friend Always,

Ara Belle

Date: 8/9/2014 5:11:00 AM

I can't get enough of it, Andrea.

Kelly Deschler

Date: 8/7/2014 2:27:00 AM

So unpredictable is love. We never know when or where it might attack us from next.... I loved the way you expressed the physical affects that love can have on us. This is really great work, Andrea!.... Thank you for stopping by to read my poem once again. I'm so glad you like it! :)

Poet Destroyer A

Date: 8/6/2014 10:29:00 PM

ANDREA,, Congrats, on your win.... LINDA

Craig Glenister

Date: 8/4/2014 7:09:00 PM

Yes it does

Casarah Nance

Date: 8/4/2014 3:06:00 PM

So many ways to experience love, amazing andrea you have captured a vibrant winner! well done :)

Sara Kendrick

Date: 8/4/2014 5:01:00 AM

Congrats...Sara

Monterey Sirak

Date: 8/3/2014 7:33:00 AM

Oh the many faces of love, some we recognize and some we don't. Congrats on your win.

Tim Smith

Date: 8/2/2014 10:11:00 AM

Stopping back to give this beauty its due...congrats Andrea

John Lawless

Date: 8/2/2014 8:26:00 AM

Ah yes, Andrea, love in its many costumes. congrats on the win.

Robert Johnson

Date: 8/2/2014 5:28:00 AM

The eyes and mind are called to serve the heart. If you keep them open, love will come. That's what I get from your poem. If you keep them closed, love dies. And the eyes grow dim and the heart turns to stone. We are born innocent. Adia. Couldn't help the reference. :)

Paul Callus

Date: 8/2/2014 4:32:00 AM

Love comes under various guises according to age and circumstances. I am sure that many of us experience love in different ways, during various stages of life. Congrats on an excellent write and deserved win. // paul

Dr. Upma A. Sharma

Date: 8/2/2014 1:06:00 AM

Subtly beautiful Andrea! congrats on fine win!

Sidney Beck

Date: 8/2/2014 12:31:00 AM

as often in your excellent work, Andy, it is the originality of the ideas which shines through the lines.....and i always get the feeling tha t each idea is strongly felt inside your heart too.........a lovely poem....I greatly enjoyed....thank you............best wishes Syd