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Can I not appreciate your beauty without touching?
Can I not know your passions without knowing?
Can I not love you without love returned?
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I can, for you are a wonder of nature
Better not sought, but come upon by chance.
And you move me like the wind.
I know your sound, your touch,
your taste, your feel and your smell.
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Yet, I experience you only in the way the blind see.
And you, beautiful friend, will never know
how longingly I have looked upon you.
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Author unknown/~NIghtrider
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This is SO BEAUTIFUL! Thanks for posting it Nightrider. Great
to see you have returned...now where is everybody else? COME BACK!

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Yes nightrider, come back. You've neen missed. Jane
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Add another voice to say good to see you back, Nightrider! Beautiful poem that is worth repeated reads. I think love that is not expressed is a shame, though, because there is little chance we will be loved back. I think it is better to express our love and take our chances that it will be returned. Thanks for posting a thought-provoker, which reminds me of times I have loved and never expressed it, and wondered what would have happened if I had been braver.

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good to see you again, Nightrider. thanks for posting the poem, i like it...ms
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Thanks all. Good to be here and see you all again. Perhaps one day I may even write something original, good enough to parallel much of the work I see in here today.Thanks again.
~nr
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Welcome back, nightrider, we've missed you! JFC
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This poem is so sweet, speaking of unrequited love. It is wonderful and nicely done. ~Melissa

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nr you're back!!! (but you already knew that, didn't you.)
(rhia)
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Just came back to see if you've won any prizes since I've been away (or should I say how many)...~nr
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been away a bit myself nr--good to see you old friend--enjoyed your poem--see your humor is in place--you know your work has always paralleled the best here--window watcher
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Is that what you were doing while you were away, Nightrider? Falling in love? A passenger? ~~Incurably Romantic Poet
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No, but I have had some pretty interesting net conversations with a lady I met in Ebay auctions..lol.
Anyway, that poem is at least 30 years old. I found it when I was working at a radio station in Florida and always kept it. Don't ask me why. I just liked it. ~nr