Southern Belle (poem) by Melie Bacon on AuthorsDen

Melie Bacon

This is the story of the author's nine years in a Catholic seminary and monastery in the 1950's and 1960's...

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1.	Into Your Soul


2.	Gently unto me


3.	?What Is It?


4.	Lovers Of The Sea


5.	Lascivious Awareness


6.	A Poem Is Born


7.	G R A S S


8.	The Blade Of Truth


9.	Sundown in Thibodaux


10.	Dying Alive


11.	The Liar


12.	Constant Hope


13.	A Little Drop of Rain


14.	Are We Just Actors Saying Our Lines (Villa


15.	MY SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES

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Southern Belle by Melie Bacon Thursday, July 26, 2012 Rated "PG" by the Author. Share Print Save Become a Fan
Southern Belle My love for you, southern belle, shall outlive this mortal shell when in dust my form must lie. If, by chance, I first should die; when I bid this world farewell in your heart my love will dwell. But, in the meantime, while I am alive and you are nigh, life is sweet and all is well.

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Reviewed by Mary Hoose (Reader)	3/4/2013

This is still one of my very favorites Melie! xo




Reviewed by La Belle Rouge Poetess Of The Heart	8/3/2012

I've always liked this poem Mellie, beautifully penned.




Reviewed by Mary Ann Biddinger	7/29/2012

Melie~ A love poem sweet in essence to the Southern Beauty. Lady Mary Ann




Reviewed by Ronald Hull	7/26/2012

The spirit lives on, long after the body is gone. Ron