Re: Re: Snapshot Of A Loved Face (a Benton)

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----- Original Message ----From: <jsm2224@...> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:27:52 AMSubject: [] Re: Snapshot Of A Loved Face (a Benton)

Extremely Moving it felt good where it touched my heart ..<3>> > mindset and inspiration;> Written during WWll> > > > Snapshot Of A Loved Face> > > > > > This then is you... tender-eyed, nineteen, mine.> Dear wonder-wide eyes.> Dear mouth, oh young rose mouth of songs and remembered kisses!> > Sweet mouth, whose whispering like tiny feathers in my ears> often excited sleep into passionate waking.> Lulling waking into sleep.> > How luminous your eyes, serene as a mountain morning!> I stand wrapped in their warmth> as a vain woman in a silken garment> and

it feels good-> > It is the smile and the sun, inside and over me,> it is all smile and the warm spring sun.> > Had you remained as constant as this image, mine as then> I wonder... Would the stars spun, clicking off years as ever.> Would men have died and cities crumbled an nations perished-> Or would we be walking through green perennial gardens> till time ran out and the lights went off and all was silence,> leaving just you and me, in a strange still land> like two who do not die but move on,> to be together and alone?> > > > > > -Walter Benton> from;Never a Greater Need>