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Array ( [sid] => 68744 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => tonight, will you return? [time] => 2004-10-24 22:04:53 [hometext] => my grandfather's poem for my grandmother, during the early years of their marriage. my grandfather died recently... [bodytext] => the moon tonight peeps
behind clouds of steely gray
and like the hope i keep
breast-hid even while i pray

brings a silvery ray of hope forlorn
soothing, because it is forced to sooth
the aches left behind unsmoothed
by life's unwarning thunderstorms

you left, and i knowing not why -
unwanting to, must sigh and weep
and wanting, ending in death
do wish, do yearn to die

but love through the clouds of steely gray
as the moon, are you my hope
that tonight, i must wish and yearn again for life?

love, will you be, are you returning tonight

lifted from : ripe is palay by SOLRAC [comments] => 1 [counter] => 146 [topic] => 2 [informant] => mayabyrd [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => LovePoetry )

tonight, will you return?

Contributed by mayabyrd on Sunday, 24th October 2004 @ 10:04:53 PM in AEST
Topic: LovePoetry

the moon tonight peeps
behind clouds of steely gray
and like the hope i keep
breast-hid even while i pray

brings a silvery ray of hope forlorn
soothing, because it is forced to sooth
the aches left behind unsmoothed
by life's unwarning thunderstorms

you left, and i knowing not why -
unwanting to, must sigh and weep
and wanting, ending in death
do wish, do yearn to die

but love through the clouds of steely gray
as the moon, are you my hope
that tonight, i must wish and yearn again for life?

love, will you be, are you returning tonight

lifted from : ripe is palay by SOLRAC

Copyright © mayabyrd ... [ 2004-10-24 22:04:53]
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Re: tonight, will you return? (User Rating: 1 )
by ShadowDaughter on Monday, 25th October 2004 @ 01:33:32 AM AEST
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This is a truly stunning, powerful poem. The second stanza, in particular, leaps out and catches the reader by the throat.

There's really nothing I can say about the death of your grandfather that won't be either cliched, pointless, or ineffectual. But I am, for what it's worth, truly sorry.

--Nora

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