Haze Poem by Will Barber

Haze

Rating: 4.8


His last days, he remembered
Ouachita mountain haze
Where he sought his love
In former days:

She floated on the waters
Of Lake Hamilton, aware
Of nothing save the waves,
The wind, the air.

He cried out her name, once,
An unguarded moment, when
The pain grew too intense
But - as always - then

His lips clamped to a line.
He never would admit
How much love hurt him,
How he never got over it.

2007

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Sean North 26 February 2007

luv it..............................................MR WILL

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Dawn Sheryl Koenig 27 February 2007

Beautiful. Cheers, Dawn

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Sandra Fowler 27 February 2007

Perhaps to have loved so completely, is to have loved enough. But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead From itself never turning. Sir Walter Raleigh World class, Will. Your poetess friend, Sandra

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Esther Leclerc 27 February 2007

The truest of loves never dies, never breaks and when it goes, torments and aches. You've expressed this sparingly, painfully. Beautiful, Will. Your friend always, Esther

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Luis Gil 17 May 2009

Painful memories are desperate cries, but they keep coming back. Intense pain always tells us something esential. Time could not heal it.... perhaps a poem?

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Tailor Bell 03 September 2007

Will, your mastery is shining in this erudite piece that leads us to a point of embarkation, where we relate and enter emotionally...your verse absorbs the reader and doesn't let go. excellent work. -Tailor

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Not a member No 4 03 March 2007

Jaysus Will you are a master of this kind of poetry. This is such a silky, such a complete rendering of that unquenchable emotion/state of mind that afflicts (?) some of us that I was almost a loss for words - but not quite. It actually took me beyond that point and back into wordiness again. Immense - so small and precisely shaped. Btw. Love Lorca via Cohen. Dangers of Falangism real. Warning justified.All the best. jim

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Duncan Wyllie 03 March 2007

This is soooooooo good, the feeling intact reaches the reader, 'She floated on the waters Of Lake Hamilton, aware Of nothing save the waves, The wind, the air. That flows so well, Will you really do have such a fine art Love duncan X

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gone gone 27 February 2007

Will a clear and beautifully painted tale.......hurts to hear it....... Love, D.

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