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Soporific

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I wonder if
You hear my thoughts
I love you
With a thousand noughts 

Invisible
Like a gentle breeze
Of affirmation 
Rustles trees

I wonder if
Within your dreams
Affection flows
As living streams

Of hope and joy
Into your mind
As eyelids flutter
Undefined

I wonder if
As night revolves
You hug me
And all fear dissolves 

For as you dwell
In distant land
In nightime world 
I hold your hand

To skip and laugh
To sit and be
Content to share
Your company

I wonder if
Love, so terrific 
Still lives beyond
The soporific

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Daniel Henry Rodgers Date: 6/19/2024 11:09:00 AM Dear Sam, When I read this, I thought what a tender bud, created with love and longing. I felt that each and every stanza danced like a gentle breeze while rustling the leaves of affection. Yes, for as night revolves, fear dissolves, and into the nighttime world. Your words hold and embrace hands with hope. Love, so terrific, lives beyond the soporific—a beautiful truth you’ve painted. - Blessings, My Dear Friend, Daniel Login to Reply Sam Scott Date: 6/19/2024 9:40:00 PM Your observations are wonderful, Daniel, thank you. You have poetically and beautifully echoed the gentle breathing of an intended, dream infused longing for those lost to the material. I congratulate your observations and penmanship. Grateful for you. Blessings S:) x

Candide Diderot Date: 6/13/2024 10:02:00 AM ...it's that word "soporific"...teetering on the razor sharp edge of ... this world and that of where we go to when we sleep. Do we as if in the present remain together holding hands when we travel into that realm ... that realm we go to when we succomb to Morpheus... when we sleep? I suspect we do not. I love this poem of yours very much, because it makes one think...when we close our eyes and slip off the edge into that other world, do we at all hold on to the one we love most (outside ourselves). I think we are separated, and on our own journey. Login to Reply Sam Scott Date: 6/13/2024 11:56:00 PM Candide - your comment has encouraged me for you interpret well. Is this a current love inhabiting our world? Maybe. Or someone dearly loved who has traversed to another sphere? Also maybe. Love is a powerful and mysterious connection we try and make sense of it and often fail as humans, cheapening it somehow. And yet poets, such as we are, can be the true voice of love capturing the mystery, dignity and vastness of this hard-worked little word. Blessings and thank you S :) x Candide Diderot Date: 6/13/2024 10:09:00 AM "For as you dwell In distant land In nightime world I hold your hand To skip and laugh To sit and be Content to share Your company I wonder if Love, so terrific Still lives beyond The soporific..."

Christina Bowring Date: 6/9/2024 3:17:00 PM This is a beautiful, dreamy poem dear Sam that gently floats away on your soothing, dulcet tones. The picture is pretty amazing too! I love the flow and rhyme here - like a gentle breeze through rustling trees. It’s a very reflective read and perfect for late night reading. I love your creative imagination and always look forward to seeing what you create next. This was a delightful read. I also love and appreciate your own unique style as I’ve said before - never feel hurried when reading your Login to Reply Sam Scott Date: 6/9/2024 9:02:00 PM Always love to read your enthusiastic comments dear Christina, thank you as ever. S :) x Christina Bowring Date: 6/9/2024 3:18:00 PM wonderful work with the use of short lines that convey so much. Loved it. Really liked the quote too. Hope you’ve had a great weekend my friend. Blessings and smiles to you x :) :)