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allan Senior Member
since 2000-04-09
Posts 620On the road 
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I gaze through the window Suddenly green from the chestnut trees Glowing in the mid-afternoon sun I am sitting in Morroch Lounging in one of the stiff-backed chairs by the table I am alone Just me and the room It is a wise old entity and allows me to be there I feel embarrassed and grateful. I am 17. We walk to Douglestone Wood after midnight Down through old Millguy sleeping Down Main Street the clouds skudding gypsy caravans and pirate galleons in our eyes The moon a glowing pearl haunted by clouds Around our heads the cool still stars We enter the wood up the little lane Past the green-mossed pillars Winding slowly up through the wood Jim talks of the one-eyed watchman His wild rages a legend Thoughts of chasing us in the dark Being caught too scary to dwell on The wood remains from the old mansion’s park Green sweeping lawns still bounded by long weaving lines Of black iron fences, fallen here and there as if drunk Swirling around us in the night Breathing deep of the sharp cool air We walk to the ruin dark and grey in the night The mansion stands hoary and ancient It’s still present elegance we would like for ourselves So young and rough edged and innocent we are The crumbling sophistication still lingers Envying it we feel it is kin To us and our young bohemian ways Built on trade in the long ago when shipping was easy money The mansion stands before us Though not much easy about the journeys In clipper ships through black storms to the Indies And beyond Through wild hurricanes Or frozen to the flagpole in imagined black nights All is silent among the watching trees The clipper ships now resting in far off seas Flung out around the world or discarded deep in the nearby Clyde The cloud galleons move gracefully overhead Drifting elegance reflecting in the path-bordered lake Bullrushes rustling in the cooling breeze Make us sleepy and yawning Scattered again back home in our beds We’ll dream the stillness alive once more Under cover of a dream-filled night What we have is passing slowly but surely Like a wreck slipping beneath the waves A dark shadow beyond saving Falling, falling Before finally resting gently on pillows of sand and silence Sparky, afraid, runs home Frightened of the skeletal trees and the dark and old Mick the watchman We see it through, curling round at last to a homeward path Three long-haired, long-legged dreamers Moving toward the dawn Eyes shining, soft pearls in the night Blissfully unaware of the coming day |
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SPIRIT Senior Member
since 2002-12-29
Posts 1745California Desert |
This is a great write and shows a very nice side of you. Thank you. I be me BUT who does me be? |
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allan Senior Member
since 2000-04-09
Posts 620On the road |
Thank you very much SPIRIT - I know I come on strong sometimes and seem a bit of a devil but I'm not as awful as I appear. Devil's Advocate sometimes maybe... but that's not to say I don't feel it in my heart. I sincerely believe Bush and Co to be misguided at best. But who am I - just as likely to be wrong as anybody else!  Thanks again SPIRIT! |
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Nightshade 
since 2001-08-31
Posts 13962just out of reach |
Well now allan, I am delightfully surprised. Thankyou for this gentle write. Chris  "Hope" is the thing with feathers- |
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allan Senior Member
since 2000-04-09
Posts 620On the road |
Thank you Chris - it's the third in dreamy a series about my life in the late Sixties - First was "We believed you would be gods", then "Us here in velvet" and now "Pearl Velvet Night" There all in the archive vaults lost in time somewhere... |
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lorenlynn Member
since 2003-01-27
Posts 203California Beaches |
Of your three posts this one is very nice and worthy of great comments. Wisdom comes with winters. ** Oscar Wilde. |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
A refreshing change of pace, Allan. I love this. It portrays youthful innocence, hope and a touch of melancholy at the end for what is to come. Very well done. |
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Joyce Johnson
since 2001-03-10
Posts 9912Washington State |
Lovely memories you portray. Life should always be this innocent. Joyce |
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allan Senior Member
since 2000-04-09
Posts 620On the road |
Thanks everyone for your comments! |
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cupcake Member
since 2003-01-05
Posts 116 |
I read a couple of your other posts and you kinda scared me. Then I read this one - are you the same person?????????? Liked this one very much. I'm a reader - not a writer. |
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allan Senior Member
since 2000-04-09
Posts 620On the road |
Yes cupcake, same person. I feel very strongly about America abusing its position as a superpower. I know that most people in America see this in a completely different light. I do believe you need to be outside the U.S. to know how the rest of the world sees America. Let me quote one American on America who seems to understand: "Those who feel marginalized, betrayed, humiliated, or wounded by our power are not part of our inter-subjective community. We are just beginning to come to terms with their anger, its distribution and root causes. Seeking causes has ironically been portrayed as unpatriotic. The obverse is true: if we fail to understand causes we will as a nation exacerbate and replicate the threatening conditions that now afflict us. we will leave fear as a legacy for following generations." Ronald J. Heering, 'International Education Week: Freedom and Terror' My bark is worse than my bite cupcake! (But I DO mean what I say.) The views in the other things are expressed in the strongest possible terms I can muster. Perhaps this is counter-productive at times, I have to keep this in mind. But the discrepancy with how we see America and how America sees itself and its relationship with the world is about as wide as one of those super-canyons on Mars. This Saturday I think America will see that in Europe we are generally disgusted and sickened by American foreign policy or what passes for it. I and hundreds of thousands more across the world will be rallying and marching to protest against America and its (as we see it) "ignorant and appalling militarism". We see George W. Bush as the prime candidate for the most dangerous man in the world. Right or wrong that IS how we see him. And we see him manipulating the U.S. population using fear and threat to be patriotic sheep. Our Tony Blair will be losing his premiership in the not too distant future here - the vast majority of the people in Britain are opposed to warmongering and don@t want to see hundreds of innocent men, women and children die horrible deaths in the name of freedom, justice and (a joke) PEACE. Whew... I jus got back off my hobby horse in time there before I bust another gut! As far as the poem above cupcake it is from a time in the early to late Sixties when me and my friends believe a better world was in prospect. With the Vietnam war continuing relentlessly we ought to have known otherwise. America likes to pick weak targets and make examples of them. It's very good for business and the military industrial complex gets to demosnstrate its latest toys. But, enough ranting, thank you for your comment! |
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