She said she never
collected them. They came to her,
all the hearts ~ diamonds on velvet.
She felt adrift on a sea of stars.
No one really understood.
Love was the sound
pulsing through her hand
fluttering in her chest.
Silence has wings and they are full of colors.
When the sails are full,
the ocean thrums beneath
the hull and spume flies.
The heart is released. She knows
the clouds hold the sunlight.
She lets go of them, the hearts, to silence the darkness.
10:45 PM
09/29/07
Alexandria, VA
In a list
A contest entry
- . by Aurora Ceres.
475 points, ended October 1, 2007, 7 entries
Gold trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
Comments
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I think I will enter the AP contest, the prompt is "temptation" and for the poem part? I will cut and paste the link to your poetry page! NOW THAT'S TEMPTATION! This definatly deserved the Mida's Touch... Ithica
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Reminds me i have to hold a PIF for this Gold. Thanks for the praise. This is really just a simple expression of someone I know. Every once and a while I get a vision and the words run true.
Love, Tom B
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wonderful... so visual
as a lack of sound should be...
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Thanks. I wrote Bookmarks first and realized I had gone over the fifteen line limit. So I wrote this one and it was a gift. Glad you enjoyed.
Love, Tom B.
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Beautiful.
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Thanks Yvette. I wanted this to be soft, tender and beautiful more than anything else. Be blessed my friend.
Thank you.
Love, Tom B.
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thank you for sharing this beautifully written write with me. congratulations on the gold trophy you have earned with this and i am looking forward to reading more from you in the near future. viyanna rosemarie
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This one has so much to give. Thank you for sharing the pleasure you found here. Love, Tom B.
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Wow.
You have enchanted me by your words, my friend...almost as if you are a sorcerer, blowing some sort of concoction on me that sends me into a hopeless spell.
I love the way you wrote this piece, and I do feel as if I'm under some sort of spell, but I love the spell I'm under.
A sad piece, really...but quite hopeful, too...that she could give up what she once held dear. With this piece, I thought that all men seemed in love with her, and...though a part of her wanted to be loved by everyone, there was another part that just couldn't bear loving all of them at the same time. Her concious.
Congrats on the gold. I enjoyed it.
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Perhaps, and I will never tell ... perhaps, she is loved by many and seeks only the one she can love. Yes is a sadness not born of sorrow but of riches without meaning.
Thanks for all of your kind and glowing world. It is a gift to have someone share how I have touched them.
Love, Tom B.
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wow! i loved this. i wish i could point out specifically what it was that i liked so much about it because that would actually be, oh i don't know, useful? haha but i'm would appear to be struggling. It flowed really well and you had great wording. sorry i'm not more helpful. phenomenal write, bravo
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I can feel the joy. Perhaps that is the greatest compliment of all. It touched you and I am blessed for that. Thank you.
Love, Tom B.
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wow. Your words. Your imagery... Your style. Wow.
I'm just not sure what to say.
Spectacular poem.
I'm speechless.
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One can only try. I am glad to hear for you it seems as if I succeeded. Appreciate the gift.
Peace & Love, Tom B.
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Absolutely AWE-SOME!!!!
Well deserved GOLD...
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Thank you. I appreciate the support.
Peace & Love, Tom B.
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If this would not have won gold, I would have protested. Though I have not visited the page of the contest... after reading this, I do not need to. This is passion... this is beauty and mystery and sooooooo much more...
I loved it. Thank you for sharing
Mel
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Sing from your center to the soul that is waiting to hear. You have often gifted me with your smile and your love and helped me more often than you know. These are but the gifts I return for all the love given me. I have a long journey in front of me, for I have been blessed with a great deal of love. Only now, am I beginning to recieve what has waited for me to hear.
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Tom, this response is like a poem itself.
Especially meaningful are the last two lines. Thank you so much for putting that into the Universe. Patsy
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Oh My Love! It is no wonder this poem won GOLD. It is brilliantly executed and as soft as the wing of a butterfly. You have done it again dear brother. There seems to be no stopping your quill. I would never, ever want that anyway! LOL
Beauteous work! You have captured the picture, and the sheer essence of silence, softness, and serenity with this wonderful work of word-art. I am so enthralled by your work Tom. Simply beautiful!
Always ♥
Renee
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Thanks Renee. I am blessed it seems at times. I have mastered a great deal of technique and I find it matters little. There is something more, that when it appears, all the exercises and skills are only used to capture the gift and share it with others. I feel blessed this site because it has increased the size of my sharing. When my words are alive they touch so many hearts and I know, oh how I know, I am only a space they pass through.
Love, Tom B.
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How absolutely beautiful this is, my friend!
No wonder this won gold; this is awesome poetry!!
Your wording and presentation; the thought process..everything is lovely!!
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This is just a moments illumination with the focus on love. The way we allow our spirit to be filled and cascade across another not with need but simply with a feeling of peace and the undercurrent of joy to tease forth a smile. Love, Tom B.
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Beautiful.
This is just stunning and beautiful. your title speaks volumes, as does the poem itself. You can just feel the silence, the pulsing of the hearts and the sea. I just adore the way in you turn a phrase in this poem. It is so well done that I can hardly find words to express my feelings about this. I loved everything about it.
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Glad to see you stopped by again. Thank you for all of your compliments. There are always feelings to be touched and spirits to be cherished, this one just shows the understanding that grows when one waters the spirit with love.
~ Tom B.
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Pretty word pictures.
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Thanks for stopping by and sharing. Love, Tom B.
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Oddly enough, or not, I related to quite a bit within your poem. This is beautiful! Normally I would dive a bit into this but, I'm late in judging so, I will come back to it!
I absolutely love this though, please know that. It far exceeded my expectations. Thank you for entering and best of luck to you.
Bella
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Oddly enough, I am not surprised. I want to see what your diving lessons have taught you and I would love to hear what you divine. It far exceeded my expectations as well. Life is full of suprises. Some are poems and some are the wonders of you.
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I've got one more contest to make comments for and I'll get the flippers and snorkel out!
Love,
Ash
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Isn't it just the old saying that whatever you set free, if it is yours then it will return and if it wasn't then you never truly had it at all? Love, C
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Perhaps, the greatest danger is to pretend that you were not involved at all. We leave wakes in the ether and upset many a plan by our passing. We are not at fault but we can not pretend to not be without effect.
Love, Tom B.
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you know... i kind of always have associated silence with sorrow... but you have turned it around and made it so pretty and peaceful. this was truly beautiful! you little happy writer you!
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Silence is an opening for us to give birth to. It is a canvas for us to create upon. It is also a prescence in its own right and creates with us in turn.
Love, Tom B.
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this is as soft as ocean spray
on my face...you've captured
something I can feel.
Love, Lane XXOO
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I wanted to write something for the contest Sound but I couldn't find the minutes of meditation and silence I needed. This came to me almost like a fairy spoke it into my ear. When I was finished I knew I had written a piece of your heart. Thanks. I am the one who is gifted. The joy you bring is a light on the the face of my soul.
Love, Tom B.
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Soul can never expect less of the heart when its wings hold the colors of the universe. Even in silence, we know its song, the one that is mind etched in angel glow in any moment given to love--vibrant, those star struck hollows of your heart given to wings and morning, tomis.
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Our heart is not an object that beats out blood, that is just a muscle. The center of our being is a point of balance within ourselves and a doorway to all of the wonders and miracles that exisit in the sea of joy.
Thanks for all of the sweet truths you share with me. May your day be blessed and the joy a Light in the center of your being.
Love, tom B.
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Priceless
The depth of metaphors in this piece specifically speaks to me in an awakening process I have been going "growing" through.
If there was a way to pen the profoundness of this sense of place I am now aware of.. I would say that you have captured it with a existent quality of excellence. I will forever return to this and mark this as a page in my diary - even if you had no idea.
Thank you this touches a heart so deep tonight I will sleep in peace like never before..
Not bad for a quickie huh?
Love & blessings dear friend~
~Joy
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There is a river. The dreams we create are often the world we have. When we become larger than our stories, the world is but one fruit on the vine.
Love, Tom B.
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OUTSTANDING!!!!!
tomisb:
I am speechless..... The beauty in which you describe the feelings felt by this young person, superb.....
As I read each and every one of your works, I have to add
it to the one's I favor the most..... Hot diggetty, the damned list is getting too long, but it is all worth it!
Write on my awesome mentor and friend, you have been born with the gift of word.....
Thank you for the invite to read such wonderful word play.....
Be blessed with love and light always.....
With much love,
your friend forever,
Tanya
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The truth is this was my second poem for this contest. I wrote Bookmarks and realized it was too long and I couldn't cut it down. So I wrote this one. It felt like it worked nicely and created feelings and thoughts that would touch a person's spirit in a loving way. Glad, really glad that it touched you so deeply. Love, Tom B.
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