This Poem was Submitted By: stephen g skipper On Date: 2005-09-13 17:25:42 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Monday Morning

All I’ve got to do, today is smile. Without you it’s so hard. I hold a thought of you, in my heart. Walking, alone, down the rain riven, streets of my mind. Am I trying to recapture, a dream of yesterday. It seems, sometimes, so far away, yet it was but a day. When your delicate fingers unbuttoned my shirt. Minutes later were lying sacred, in each other’s arms. No silk or satin for us, just a hard wood kitchen floor. But we could be anywhere at all. It matters not, our emotions run free. Spirits now sing in true harmony. At this time there was only, you and me. Today’s dawn brings me back, to stark reality. Alone in cold sheets, and missing you!

Copyright © September 2005 stephen g skipper


This Poem was Critiqued By: Jillian K Sorenson On Date: 2005-09-22 23:30:32
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 1.00000
Stephen, This is nicely done, with a cute ending. However there's one stanza that's just a tad bit too intimate for me (I don't know why, I'm usually not a prude) but it does tie in nicely with the ending. What is "rain riven"? Is this perhaps a typo? The commas at times feel a bit unnecessary at least in a rhythmic sense - not all of them, but a few. Also I would end the "Am I .... " statement with a question mark rather than a period since you are using punctuation. Overall great job.


This Poem was Critiqued By: marilyn terwilleger On Date: 2005-09-16 15:37:41
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 10.00000
Hi Stephen, I am so confused about something and you are the only one who can help me! I know you lost your wife Paula but then I saw a poem you wrote and in your additional notes you said that you and Paula were re-married in 2005. I know I must have read it wrong but I am sure you said you had re-married. Please forgive me for being so dumb and please set me straight! Having said all that..this poem is lovely and it speaks of your ciontinued grief about the loss of Paula. Those feelings never go away (anyway mine haven't and my husband has been gone for a long time) but we do learn how to deal with them so they are not so painful...I think. ...I am trying to recapture a dream of yesterday...how well I know that feeling. You write of making love on the floor which made me smile...don't you feel somewhat sorry for people who never do that?...Spirits now sing in true harmony...only true soul mates can be in harmony and their marriages are not a chore or a job they must work at everyday like so many others are....another reason to feel sorry for some....today's dawn brings me back, to stark reality. Alone in cold sheets, and missing you....this is another emotion that we share...the feelings of solitude upon going to bed and waking up alone...again. This is a lovely poem..it is soft and filled with emotion and passion...you can't write it if you don't feel it and it is obvious to me that you have profound feelings that you are dealing with....hope to hear from you soon. Peace...Marilyn
This Poem was Critiqued By: Dellena Rovito On Date: 2005-09-14 17:20:44
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 10.00000
Stephen, You love sick puppy you.....[joking] How nice to exerience that sweet loving. She sounds wonderful/and your both so blessed. I hope you never lose 'the wonder' of it all. 'Your poem's sweet and almost innoscent. It is delightful. You show yourself well. Dellena
This Poem was Critiqued By: Gerard A Geiger On Date: 2005-09-14 08:39:51
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 10.00000
Dear Steven; A poignant work extolling the loss of a past lover. Remembering her on a rainy monday morning...her memory is is both comforting..and disconcerting when taken in comparison to the present lonliness of cold sheets... Bittersweet, love-lost or just love-missed, in either event...alone with just the memories. A good work explaining an emotional landscape familiar to most. Thanks for sharing this work Steven. your friend, Gerard
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