Winter Solstice

You are the shortest day but longest night within a memory of my four seasons Every cell in my body remembers you It remembers Your amorous glance Your ardent touch Your effervescent kiss and even your last whisper a careless whisper which sickened my thought and pained me with grief Every breath from my lungs remembers your absence How can I forget it I live with it I die inside of it It surrounds my existence Your absence Bitter! Dark ! Darker than death itself You -Solstizio D'Inverno Where is your promise of new beginning Where is the light of what was pure I know you! I know you enough to know You still feel me in your bones I know you! I know you enough to know You bury me in your soul Then you dig.. You dig crazily beneath poured dusk which fills the hourglass beyond your veins You dig deep to find me again You find me You hold me I know you! I know you enough to know You hold me to your heart I know you! I know you enough to know I'm still your life-line Your love travels as far as the stars as distant as God and undiscovered orbits But was that Yesterday's illusion For how long should this candle shine How dim its glow now Low is the voice which calls the sun to rebirths prisms from droplets'dew Weak are the footprints which mark our path on moonlit snow I should stop walking I should stop calling Stop believing Wanting,Needing The sun sank in the stillness of a crimson horizon In the solitude of the tide never to dawn in these eyes again Winter Solstice You are my coldest verse of silence My longest night of rain

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Date: 10/7/2014 4:18:00 PM
So beautiful as to own my soul. Bury myself in these words. Happy in a blanket of loveliness.
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Date: 10/7/2014 2:13:00 PM
Hi Charm! Congratulations on the choice of subject for this excellent poem. The use of metaphor, repetition, emotional depth, the sad feeling.....all contribute to the excellence of this poem which is going straight to my favs. Well done. // paul
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Date: 10/7/2014 12:35:00 PM
Dear Charma, How sad it is when someone "buries you" in their soul. This is a powerful poem and anyone who has lost someone can relate to it. Incidentally, "Careless Whisper" by George Michael is my favorite slow-dance song. If you haven't heard it, you'll find it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izGwDsrQ1eQ. Love you, Carolyn
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Date: 8/13/2015 3:16:00 PM
Oops i left you a comment on lm by mistake dear
Date: 10/6/2014 5:15:00 PM
I love your emotions Charma..This day is special to me it is my oldest son's birthday...He will be 17 this year....where has the time gone.....hugs Tim xxx.....a fav :)
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Date: 10/6/2014 2:20:00 PM
Simply amazing no not simply, incredibly amazing! Love the use of repetition. We are poets we all have momentary moods! Well at least you're a poet. :) Sunny skies and diamond days to you Charmaine!
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Date: 10/6/2014 11:10:00 AM
oh this is an excellent pen charmaine really love how you painted this dear friend bless you
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Date: 10/6/2014 11:01:00 AM
This is a fiction poem,inspired by momentary moods,so no concern-Just in case : )
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