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Lost Love

With time I came to wonder if
Our love was any love at all;
All memories of sweetness barred
Behind the evil since our fall.

But yesterday my mind was eased,
To see us both immortalized.
Just three years past - we were so young...
But by those smiles I realized,

There truly was affection there;
Young love connecting you and me.
A single photo testifies
To our single ounce of purity...

Author notes

"You are young, and your bitter recollections have time to change themselves to tender remembrances.” - Athos, The Three Musketeers

The Past is such a curious Creature
To look her in the Face
A Transport may receipt us
Or a Disgrace --

Unarmed if any meet her
I charge him fly
Her faded Ammunition
Might yet reply.

-Emily Dickinson

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  • misshugglebugglez
    November 30, 2008

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    ahhh this is beautiful! it was great. =D
    i especially enjoyed the last couple lines...
    "A single photo testifies
    To our single ounce of purity..."
    i loved it =) keep up the fabulous work!
    hugs,
    adria/ confuzzled angel <3


  • Kiran silver member
    November 26, 2008

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    This is a beautifully written piece. I enjoyed reading this very much!! Excellent!

  • Eusebius
    November 26, 2008

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    Ah, great stuff here! A higly poetical piece and so very full of truth, indeed! I loved this one a ton!bravo!!


  • Whitemaiden
    November 24, 2008
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    That was really nice. It's very good not your best but still. When did you write this one?


  • Sokarjo
    November 23, 2008

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    Superb. The whole of it flows so smoothly and the end is so very well worded. Well, all of it is really. You are a Queen of poetry, my dear. Superb.


  • Room without doors gold member
    November 23, 2008

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    Outstanding

    Photographs can bring back so many memories - both good and bad- and I liked the positive message of this poem that the love was real at the time. A thoughtful and well-written poem.


  • AliceinPoetryLand gold member
    November 23, 2008

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    Just beautiful! I love the thoughts you expressed in this and as always your rhyme and flow is just wonderful.
    Thank you for sharing
    Gaylene


  • forgotten hopes
    November 21, 2008

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    brilliant writte

    this is truely a piece of excellent writting i really enjoyed reading it. I can really actually relate to the ideas on reflection, which is nice because it made me think back outside of now and into the past as you have in the poem itself. The imagery of the photograph is fantastic at evoking a real picture in the readers mind. I like the way this takes a hopefull outlook on a typically sorrowfull and depresing theme.

    Well done!!
    xx

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