Original Poetry or Stories.

(While scrolling thru FB memories, I happened upon 
this poem. I read it, thinking, "This is good." To my
surprise it was my own. I had kept no copies.)


Whist? Upon my ear a sound doth fall
Can it be, oh surely tis my lover's call
Forlorn and all alone, this heart of mine
For this sweet sound, has long and sadly pined
Dare I awake and let hope spring afresh
Into his wooing again become emmeshed
I ask myself, shall I trust him once more
Will he leave me as oft he did before
Yet, I long for his touch, so soft and tender
Each kiss upon my lips, I do remember
I am ensnared by the web he deftly spins
I knew he would, yes, again my heart he wins


By: Nellie Dailey  

Beautifully written, Joyous!

Thanks, LFF. Is it wrong that I opened a new topic without asking?

No.  That's fine.  In fact, that's great!

No.  Thank YOU !

Joyous thank you for starting this thread....we need more new content for sure and I appreciate it so much!

Your poem is beautiful and reminds me of the good ole days when a certain romantic poet was amongst us.  I sure miss him!

Glad, funny that I too was reminded of him.
How he would have rearranged my lines of poetry.
I too miss him and oh how nice it would be if we
could attract a few newbies.
As it stands, we seem to be a gang of 4, sometimes
5 if Margie pops in.

I guess I should have known when I met her
I should have known from the start
That she didn't want a relationship
Without meaning to, she stole my heart.
People told me she didn't want a boyfriend
She even told me.  She'd spoken
One day I told her I'd fallen in love with her
She said "Oh no." and my heart was broken
Now that I've told her and she's heard it
and I have these mixed feelings inside
I can't say those words again
My true feelings I'll have to hide
We both enjoy our time together
Maybe if we meet less frequently
We can still share a friendship
And maybe let love grow gently
If love doesn't grow as I'm thinking it could
and instead we part ways
we, and life, will surely go on
We'll have memories of happier days.

Like that you're able to put words to your feelings
and perhaps in due time memories will soften the pain.

Naw... I'm an incurable romantic.

LFF, I almost said the same thing.
Not an incurable romantic, simply a romantic.

Thank you.

joyous wrote:Glad, funny that I too was reminded of him.
How he would have rearranged my lines of poetry.
I too miss him and oh how nice it would be if we
could attract a few newbies.
As it stands, we seem to be a gang of 4, sometimes
5 if Margie pops in.

and now we have jackiehope......perhaps she might write a poem for us......??

lightfootfan wrote:I guess I should have known when I met her
I should have known from the start
That she didn't want a relationship
Without meaning to, she stole my heart.
People told me she didn't want a boyfriend
She even told me.  She'd spoken
One day I told her I'd fallen in love with her
She said "Oh no." and my heart was broken
Now that I've told her and she's heard it
and I have these mixed feelings inside
I can't say those words again
My true feelings I'll have to hide
We both enjoy our time together
Maybe if we meet less frequently
We can still share a friendship
And maybe let love grow gently
If love doesn't grow as I'm thinking it could
and instead we part ways
we, and life, will surely go on
We'll have memories of happier days.

LFF this is simply beautiful!  Well written too!   Gosh I must get back to writing again!

Thanks Glad.  Sadly, she sent me a dear John text yesterday.

Ah so sorry LFF.

Used to be
I'd be filled with woe.
It's for the best
sadly, this I know.
Gave her her Christmas gift, you see
and this text is what she gave me.
I'm finding this very hard
after I bought the cologne on my card
I've had this lesson many times before
But I look ahead- now say "No more.".
I shake my head and let out a sigh.
I must go on.  I'll get by.

You sure will get by LFF.......I  am sending friendship and prayers for you for you truly are a good friend to have.....if we were close in miles I would enjoy having dinner with you.

Thanks, Glad.

Very good!  Well written!  Nice flow!  79?  That was 40 years ago!

Yes, 40 years ago. I was still married to Ken.
We had taken some of our teenaged children
vacationing in the upper peninsula. The area inspired
the poetry.
Thank you for the approval.

Jackie, thank you. We were in the upper peninsula of Michigan.
Long ago there was a terrible fire which burned much of the
surviving timber, leaving gigantic stumps. There is a photo of
some of my sons standing inside one of the stumps. 
That land is beautiful and Native Americans treated nature as 
it was meant to be.

That's beautiful, Windwalker!

Windwalker, a really good poem, well written and sweet.

I have always loved this poem Windwalker.   Thank you so much for sharing!

Thank you all, it being Christmas I thought it would be an appropriate one to share.

With your permission Windwalker may I place you in our writers group?

Welcome aboard, Windwalker.

GladEOlah wrote:With your permission Windwalker may I place you in our writers group?

Sure, Glad. Feel free to. 

joyous wrote:Welcome aboard, Windwalker.

Thank you, joyous, I appreciate that. 

Done and thank you Windwalker!

Very good!

Very good, Joyous.

Maybe it's a pen name.

jackiehope wrote:Yes possible, it could even be a man..

Trust me.  She's not.

Yep.  It's Joyous.

LOL You all had me laughing.

Jackie, LFF, WindWalker, thank you.

Speaking of pen name......my pen name is Glad E Olah. Sometimes that causes problems on facebook for most know me as my true name but for the rest of the internet world I am known as Glad E Olah. 

Strange in the beginning I use Glad E Olah on facebook and that did cause problems.  If I ever get published I will go with the pen name.  I do believe we have become more comfortable using our real names on the internet.   I remember the day when our identity was kept secret.  Well let it be known I am   in real life but to me Glad E Olah is real.  On facebook Glad E Olah is in brackets behind my name.

By the way Nell I love the poem!

Strange.  I try to PM you as Glad E Olah, and there's no such member here.  I do a member search, and it's GladEOlah, with no spaces.

LOL LFF don't you remember even I as admin had to change that because I could not get in a couple of years ago?

Admin should be allowed to do whatever Admin wants.

I have CRSS.