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softly you whisper to me


Larsen M. Callirhoe

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Larsen M. Callirhoe

new poem

 

softly you whisper to me

here in the dark

saying i love

but the words don't hold true

i wish there was more to this relationship

as you head out the door.

 

silently you say good bye

closing the door behind you

will i ever see you again.

 

in my wildest dreams

i pray for you

to come back through the door

you so quietly closed many years ago.

 

casually you come back

after all those years.

i am but an old man now

but can't you see

the bloodstains from my heart.

 

you left me with a goodbye letter.

how i covered it with my many tears.

i do not believe your apology is good enough.

 

so here we are back together again.

how this once empty bed still fills

so cold.

we fall asleep in one anothers arms,

i guess that is the best we can hope for.

Larsen M. Callirhoe

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Aleksandra

Wonderful written my dear Victor. Again emotional and sensitive poem by you. I loved. You expressed your feelings and your hope so well , on one so touching way. Sadness in this peace hits and provokes longing, and melancholy.

 

Thank you so much for sharing this poem

 

Aleksandra

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth - Jean Cocteau

History of Macedonia

 

 

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Larsen M. Callirhoe

yeah aleksandra i wrote this as if i would ever get back with my ex lol.

 

vic

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Aleksandra
yeah aleksandra i wrote this as if i would ever get back with my ex lol.

 

vic

 

Ah Victor my dear friend. I know, I recognized. To hope is good, but sometimes we are hurting us. Just stay fine. And keep your writing. I love to read your poetry.

 

Aleksandra

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth - Jean Cocteau

History of Macedonia

 

 

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Victor, I like how this poem seems to toggle back and forth between past and present. The result of the technique is that the yearning becomes amplified as it is contrasted with reality.

 

Tony

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The angst is there, Victor.

"Words are not things, and yet they are not non-things either." - Ann Lauterbach

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goldenlangur

Hi Victor,

 

Its' wonderful to see you writing again. In the sadness and poignancy you evoke in this poem, one is reminded of Shelley's words: "Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts"

 

This encapsulates the pain, sadness, hopes of reconciliation and a deep longing, all of which combine into a potent mix:

 

Larsen M. Callirhoe wrote:

 

so here we are back together again.

how this once empty bed still fills

so cold.

we fall asleep in one anothers arms,

i guess that is the best we can hope for.

 

 

goldenlangur

goldenlangur

 

 

Even a single enemy is too many and a thousand friends too few - Bhutanese saying.

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Larsen M. Callirhoe

gl i have heard of that quote before but did not know who wrote it. my 12 grade english teacher used it on me when i wrote about my great grandmother dying and i was at her death bed.

 

thanks for the memory.

 

victor

Larsen M. Callirhoe

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