DAPHNE FOREVER

She was standing in the doorway, smiling,

With raindrops on the windowpanes singing,

The season's first rainfall brings with it memories,

Of that long-gone, fresh, November morning.

                    

So what if the past is just a shadow,

Every moment is treasured in my mind's eye,

Where everything is as it was, there I see her,

As I flashback on that fresh and lovely morning.

                    

With the rain clouds vying to kiss her,

She was the embodiment of beauty,

Wrapped in her shawl and waving at me

She was the life and soul of that morning.

                    

I have no metaphor to describe her beauty,

But her smile, her grace and the memory,

Shall always come and possess me, whenever,

I recall that unforgettable morning.



She is in a far better place than I am,

Free of sin and oblivious of sinners,

So when the first clouds of winter come by,

She too smiles from above her heavenly greeting.



Many a girl and woman have I met and known,

Some of them kept saying she couldn't be real,

But she and her ethereal being did love me,

And this is what's wonderful about this morning.

Author's Notes/Comments: 

In memory of unforgettable, charming and intelligent schoolmate Daphne...
Read my poem "Friendships" for further reference. Also read "A Flower called Daphne" and "ME DAPHNE,DAPHNE ME"...and more...posted here.

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palewingedpoetess's picture

This is terrible! Not your poem, again the counted eyes that cleverly caressed your words with but one pair before mine own leaving an offering at the critique's table. It is an a front 222 empty readers pawing through your words and memories and not even tipping the man who so generously laid them out to be touched. I'll never understand the selfishness of this world but it's always nice to come across a candle of a spirit like yourself and pay my humble homage to your flame with but what better than a few beautifully blessed words all my own

hold steady
gallant soul
the mark of time
touches not your brow
you stand steady
face to the sun
smiling beautifully
for the wind that
whispers through your
carefully chosen clothes
in the arms of love
we hold one spectacular partner
at a time
ultra lovingly
the breaking dawn dallies to agree with me.......
you know who!........so why type it? laughs

deborahrussell's picture

This is beautiful poetry...nature has a way of speaking to the soul like no other muse.