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my Darlin Anna .... What can I say ... this is sadness but beautiful sadness if there is such a thing such heartfelt words you have wrung from your heart ... how can one fault perfection ... I cannot ... gorgeous poem going to my favourites folder ... love and higgest bug hugs Jayne x x x

This is very good,esp the way you articulated the beginning with your feelings of loneliness.Well done!

What a beautiful love poem you have just created! The words are like a song, a longing of the soul. Well done, my dear friend. Excellent to Superb! Sincerely, Hugo

there are those rare moments in writing when we capture that profound truth, in all it's simplicity and timeless beauty ,that then make the words seem irrelavent to the spirit that forms them.This is one.

I truly felt the cold emptiness of the sorrow in loneliness within all your lines, but my favorites are: when you have lived the sorrow and the loneliness a swan lives after his life-long mate dies and he glides the pond alone, serene still because they touched my heart. Always, Cat

This is stupendous... a really gifted, thought provoking piece. Love some if not all! of your descriptive metaphors - Beautiful poem! Thanks Bonita j

Ana, This is just awesome! You made me feel the depth of pain... These lines hurt me a lot; "when you have lived the sorrow and the loneliness a swan lives after his life-long mate dies and he glides the pond alone, serene still" Loved it. Though the title did'nt tell me the poem is so great, before reading the poem... Sincerely, Wafi "Culture, location and beliefs; All vanish with love!" ~Afzal Shauq~

This really is awesome , it's gentle title did not prepare me for the heart ache within it. My favourite image was the sky is no longer hinged to the dreamer the empty sadness in this one line is so powerful.Definatly deserves spotlit Liz

Love is lonely, it is inside one and can be reflected in another and yet it is inside one still whatever one does, there like some most wonderful hurt. How do you expect us to react to such poetry? How oh how? The jaws around the kill ow ow what a strong sensation and painful reality in the same breath as the caress, oh can there be a more impressive (imprinted) way of putting this? NO!! The swans who mate for lifelong wandering, when one dies what then, alone across the waters of life, so poignant. I too love the last leaf and just today took a photo of one such, it seemed to be looking at me, left on a bush beside the track its green-ness still there, but with some beautiful dotted markings around its edges and it was in a way, exhibited to all who passed, like a painting on a wall in a gallery. So I know that feeling of seeing the last leaf on a tree, I always react with sudden silent wonder at it, almost giving it a presence it doesn't have for a moment, like love. Love you Anna Anna oh dearest Anna that first verse is so very powerful that it completely eclipses anyone else's attempts at describing love with such, such oh wow i cannot find good words to say it is so absolutely wonderful, is it not everyone, totally fantastic, I cannot find the right adjective as all seem so suddenly banal next to the poem it is trying to describe. You are a magician of words here Anna of the waving wands of the willow tree sobbing and laughing in the same breezes.

totally a beautiful love letter. And very descriptive as well as very loving. Well done, Love to you and yours, Lyz, XX. Awesome.

This is remarkable The last stanza does it for me Entirely loving but sad.....there is no getting away from that though with true love... it gets my newly created OMG award !! I just thought of that and your the first recipient..

Impressive.A masterpiece spelt out in a unique way.I love it !

Congratulations on spotlight Mum muchly deserved ... I keep changing my favourites as I write them lol can they all be my favourites LOL (huggles) much love and higgest bugs Jayne x x x x

Ahhhh Anna, beautiful & smooth as ever, somehow this was good wine (good red wine, forgive me)... stuff like this has to be aged & isolated for many a year to come out (no reflection on aging honey), just the extraordinary tenderness required to have such talent thrive... & the hell one has to have lived at some stage at least in order to know it & paint it in words so well. I love you dear one, thank you for sharing so much of your hearts bruises & joys. Cheers Anni~ "When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace". H.H. the Dalai Lama

Hey I loved it!! It was really enjoyed it and thought it was great!!

love spelt out with a cupid arrow.

From a blank canvas you have painted a masterpiece. Perfected brush strokes build this emotion into real life. Perfectly sad. HS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "With all that I am and all that I could be, I walk this earth and yet nobody sees me".

is really good. has a good flow to it. keep up the work :)

Regarding your poem, I will simply quote my favorite free form poet here at Neopoet, whose poetry I enjoy, marvel at, and diligently study:- "Here the depth of poetry solid speaks". A marvelous poem, Anna Respectfully Jim "Laws and rules don't kill freedom: narrow-minded intolerance does" : Race

whatever.

lines are without flaw, a rare thing to say indeed! "to live and die in the same breath"--this is poetry here. the whole thing smells of Rilke to me, though I don't know if he was an inspiration on this one--excellent poem.

actually, as my comment was not about this beautiful poem, nor you, nor dismissive in any way. I'm not sure how it ended up there. I was thinking on your words, feeling them, but was obviously somewhere else as well. Forgive me. Please continue your beautiful writing and ignore my comments.