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bsquirrel
since 2000-01-03
Posts 7855
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I am an ugly thing, creased covers and muddy pages full of stones, cane hobbled passages and lint from burial clothes. You cannot ask me to explain the sun -- the eye will remain long after the pyramids are memories of scent and relapsed shadow. I am an ugly thing here, a mound among hills, a scratch of ice on a weeping window. If you pull back the leaves, you will find a poem, just one heart -- repeat its breath. |
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1slick_lady Member Ascendant
since 2000-12-22
Posts 6088standing on a shadow's lace |
awesome !!! |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
It is most amazing, how a poem is born... and how a poet knows what to call it... |
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Nightshade
since 2001-08-31
Posts 13962just out of reach |
Wow !!! Chris  Life is not measured by breaths you take, but by moments that take your breath away. |
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bsquirrel
since 2000-01-03
Posts 7855 |
Thank you all, for reading and enjoying. The inspire of this? I was reading some poetry by Czelaw Milosz a few minutes ago, and suddenly felt like I could write anything. Not that that's important to the reading of this poem; it's just important to me.  Mike |
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EarthenSoul Member
since 2002-05-30
Posts 163WA, USA |
"If you pull the back the leaves, you will find a poem" Excellent! It takes a poet to know where to look. |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
Well I didn't have to pull back any leaves to find this particular poem---I just clicked on a title by our illustrious bsquirrel---and am I ever glad I did! I love how your mind works --all the ins and outs--masterful machinations! ~ smiles to you Mike ~ Linda |
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bsquirrel
since 2000-01-03
Posts 7855 |
Thank you, ES and Linda, for the smile. Mike |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Oh what a lovely way your wrote this, Mr.Squirrel... I especially love the part about finding the poem after pulling back the leaves... I think I will go into the woods and look for some of your poetry... afterall... you are a squirrel and squirrels make their nests of leaves.  ~ leafy rodent hugsLyra |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
SMILING... I was reading something last night, about how words drifting down a page is not a poem but a list? and the rebel in me thought? well...why isn't a LIST poetry...so? I pulled the drawer outta the kitchen---the JUNK drawer...and well, it wasn't art, but pieces of my life were in there...in a LIST...and hey, that's all poetry really is, pieces of our lives, shared. And you, m'lovely, SHARE yourself so generously...you are indeed a POEM. Love to you from for this. |
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ThisDiamond Member Rara Avis
since 2002-02-22
Posts 9353Michigan, USA |
A garden quality rose Mike...as this one in such illustrious company. Great write. ThisDiamond |
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brian sites Senior Member
since 2002-06-25
Posts 1475usa |
breathed again this tome opened pages a living poem weather the rain-stones buried in dust-bones get thee to a Calgary wordsmith and sing the song of sappy b |
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bsquirrel
since 2000-01-03
Posts 7855 |
Lyra -- glad to see you back no worse for wear! I realized later on last night that the "pulling back the leaves" was opening a book. Meetcha in the woods for acorns! Sen -- I'm gonna go search out that poem, now. And everyone has an opinion on what's a poem and what isn't. They're wrong.  ThisDiamond -- Thank you. I can't even pretend my words are anywhere near Milosz's, but at least we're both Polish. brian -- I will, I will. I know I will. Mikey |
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