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compassion, destiny, dreams, eternal, forever, lifetimes, longing, romance, sighs, unconditional love, universe
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I look past the pain,
mist of misunderstanding,
seeking the path to go home.
a voice I keep hearing,
a nightingale’s song,
in a branch high above me,
as I lie on the ground.
fare thee well my beloved,
my angel, my dream,
for you are the beauty
who I’ve never seen,
the words left unspoken,
the kisses unkissed,
so much of forever
we’ve missed.
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Dennis Cardiff 
Great poem Dennis – meaningful and l emotive, great flow too. Thank you for sharing.
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Thanks Rob, for your kind words. We use words to express our ideas, but our words can be interpreted differently by the reader. Emotions, past experience and viewpoint can lead to a mist of misunderstanding.
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So true Dennis. In years gone by I would have a reaction to feedback on my writing and words if it was at variance to my meaning! Have since learnt exactly what you say. Each person has their own perspective, history, etc. So interpretation differs. Now I feel simply grateful for feedback, intrigued by any that is different to my meaning and happy the person found meaning for themselves in my writing. It’s an interesting world when we let go! 🙂
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Inspiring stuff. Only wish I felt the same. Sebastian Hayes
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sublime
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Dennis, you capture thoughts and emotions with the fluency of your pen. Another good one! Silva
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Beautiful
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Dennis, well done. I like these words very much. “For you are the beauty
that I’ve never seen.” Nice, BTG
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Lovely poem it reminded of a short story by Oscar Wilde ‘ The nightingale and the rose, where the lovely nightingale gave up her life for love only to find that the love never really existed in the first place for one of the party and the party it did exist for became really miserable , your poem really reminded me that sometimes when love is not reciprocated it maybe one should go past it and find love elsewhere because love is so abundant in our world should we really put so much effort into looking for it where as you misunderstanding has won the day, life is too short to let misunderstanding take such a hold I think, your poetry always gives me much food for thought. Excellent piece thank you. Kathy.
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I just read Oscar Wilde’s The Nightingale and the Rose. It is beautiful with a poignant message. Thanks for leading me to this wonderful story. ~ Dennis
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Beautiful. It’s wonderful to read some of your poetry, Dennis.
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