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Close Your Eyes by Judy Burnette

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Visitor Comments (from the Voting form)

Jamie

The poem was beautiful. I am not with the man I love right now and I really miss him. The poem is true though all you have to do is think about the one you love and some of the pain will go away. I am also using this poem for an assignment in english.

Sandi

I could relate to the poem. It was just great.

Connie

I love this poen. I just cant get over it.

Carmela

I enjoy all of your poetry. I hope you will keep on writing.

kenya

my husband is away and i know that he would love to heear the words of devetion and you have put it into a lovely poem.

ash

da bomb!

Princess

Wonderful piece. Its something I can, or perhaps, a lot of people can relate to...

Delicia

Wonderful

bobbi

Loved the poem. It captured the exact way i feel when i am away from my boyfriend. We are finally going to be together after being apart for some time but not before i send him this poem to let him know i love him and soon we won't have to just think about it anymore

kassie

like it

APRIL

it was a beautiful poem

Terry

Beautiful, absolutely beautiful.... It brought a tear to my eye! My fiance' and I are 1000 miles apart and this poem just brought me closer to her...thank you Judy

harvey

"its a very lovely poem,its one of the best!".

Chris

I don't know who this poem was written for but I felt very intimate and beautiful. Whoever you love is one lucky guy. I loved it.

jess

You took the words right from my heart

Elena

When I read this poem it literally made me cry. I am away at college and it 100% expresses how I feel.

Vanessa

I thought this poem was so nice I almost cried when i read it.

Casey

I loved your poem!! It was so true to life!! I feel the same because my husband is in the Marine Corp and I dont get much time with him.. Its nice to know that I am not alone!!

rusty

this poem reminded me so much of the one i love

Candy

I loved this poem because it remind me that while my boyfriend was gone at boot camp for the Army that he is still very much in my mind

Kitty

each year for the past 4 years i have been going off to a university in NC. Unfortunately my fiance lives in MD and about 7 hours away from where i am 70% of the year. Its tough but love prevails as this poem mentions.

natalie

This poem said a lot for me when i was at a loss for words, it's a beautiful poem and is very well written. The artist did a very good job.

Jessica

This poem was awesome!

Deb

This was a perfect poem for a most diffcult times in my life

Portia

Beautiful, makes you really sit and think about loved ones

Jill

I really like this one too. It brings me all the memories that we've shared and will share in the future. And it makes me think of my fiance and I smile.

Alyssa

I fell in love with this poem because it reminds me of a time that I shared with someone once. It touched me and I want to thank the author for writing it!

Stephanie

It was great thank you

Mary

This was THE poem I needed. It said all I felt and all he needed to know.

Lennart

Struck me as a brilliant way of discribing love on a diance.

Leah

I adored this poem. Thanks so much for letting me have a chance to read it. I may use this for my husband some day.

gordon

at the moment my wife & daughter are in England on holidays and it discribes the way i feel perfectly .

Tina

absolutely brilliant, amazing!

edgar

this poem its just what i do when my love is far from me so that i know she`s here with me

Leah

This poem says exactly what I think and feel when I can't be with the one I love. Thank you for expressing it so well.

I just loved this poem...so true for so many people... beautifully written thank you

Anne

lovely writing. wonderful detail.

carrie

I only wish I were this talented to express my thoughts and emotions with simple, yet, very powerful words.

John

I loved it,made me smile....gonna go look and see if she has any more like it

michael

GREAT POEM

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