You Need Not Know Poem by Sandra Fowler

You Need Not Know

Rating: 4.6


House corners sing a wind song to the blues.
The air randomly flows with shadow trees.
You come to me across the fading fields.
The passion in your tired face lights the dusk.

I want to tell you, though you bring no flower,
That I have all I wanted from the fall,
But you press your hand hard against my mouth.
The moment is too simple for much speech.

You need not know I memorize you, Friend
Down to the missing buttons on your coat
For wisdom tells me all you have to give
Is written in the clean lines of the moon.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Fay Slimm 01 January 2009

This has worked it's magic on so many before - - but it is still as potent today for yet another reader Sandra dear - - - it has winsome elegance - - - and an undertone of such pathos - - - - you are a wordsmith of real note - thank you..... Fay with 10 + +

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Anjali Sinha 30 December 2008

'You need not know I memorize you, Friend Down to the missing buttons on your coat For wisdom tells me all you have to give Is written in the clean lines of the moon.' wowwwww! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! exquisite lines of wisdom --10 anjali

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Sulaiman Mohd Yusof 27 September 2008

I need to know how a simple piece as this has the complexity of interpretation.Marvelous writes Sandra dear! Regards, sulaiman

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James B. Earley 02 August 2008

A passionate expression of depth......contentment...and...............love!

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Kesav Easwaran 16 July 2008

'.............................all you have to give Is written in the clean lines of the moon' despite no flowers a mouthful of love and moon lit face i can visualize right here...the quoted line provides a gem of an ending to this beautiful write 10

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Bri Edwards 09 February 2014

not my cup of tea. but thanks for sharing with others. :)

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‘For wisdom tells me all you have to give/Is written in the clean lines of the moon.’ Well poets have the monopoly to scribble so…and Ma’am you’ve done it…ably and its justly…fantastic… 10+ Ms. Nivedita

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Sally Plumb Plumb 11 September 2009

I love this one so much.It is heavenly.

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Ashraful Musaddeq 03 May 2009

I read and I became amazed how beautiful the poem is! Magnificent imagery is used like 'Down to the missing buttons on your coat'

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Wojja Fink 29 March 2009

any comment I could leave would be like ruining the fresh snow with footsteps........can I say nothing...John

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Sandra Fowler

Sandra Fowler

W. Columbia, WV, USA
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