Throwback Poem-Off: Knowing [original poem]

The turns have been easy for a few, but before too long - we won't know what to do!
As the store of old-school verses dissipate, there's only one way left to participate.
Soon to keep up the good fight, we'll have to turn to pen and paper, and remember how to write!

But for now... the Poem-Off continues!!

Read @mitchelljaworski's last entry here: Fighting for Me

And my response below...

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Knowing

I've known you before
In a million little things
Of a thousand different people,
And yet the memories of them
Have fled now - vanished
In the new light you bring.

So familiar to me,
All your little ways
A smile, a smell, a taste.
Though your kiss was new -
Different, sweet, tender,
Perfect.

But I know not yet
So soon in seeing
To what end all this beauty will go.
Is this just another lesson to learn,
Another heartache to grow from?
How close to my soul can another come
Before the leaving would be unbearable?
Will you be the one who stays
To forever keep the memories your own?

What's a poem-off, you ask? Just a little thang that started a little bit ago. I read a poem that @mitchelljaworski posted, from his old-school writing days. It reminded me of all of my old-school poems, so I challenged him to see if we could go turn-for-turn and repost long lost words from the vaults of time. No rules apply, and new stuff might just make the mix. Check it out, y'all. Follow the links down the rabbit hole...

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Here are some of my other poems:
Kiss * Clouds of September * Dammed Love * Sunset Blessings * Fadings of Fall * The Friday Blues * Passion Flower * Defining Love * The Way * Sing On * Heartsong * Desire * Trust Again * Solstice Rain * Dreamtime * Morning Mist * Kintsukuroi * Dead Dog’s Lie * Synchronicity * From Darkness * Love’s Last Throes * For Love of the Pub

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