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Black Silk |
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Corinne Member Ascendant
since 1999-10-28
Posts 5167state of confusion 
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Black Silk Grandmother, there is much I don’t know about you; but this family breeds secrets, hides them like recessive genes. Your daughter covered the truth, for protection perhaps, or to keep the ugliness away. It took a desperate father to blurt it out in a drunken rage over the phone. Over the phone I learned this. All I have are scraps in an album: seventh child of a seventh child, you danced in Vaudeville and hated your nose – it’s scratched out in every surviving picture. It’s impossible to imagine your face. What isn’t there is an explanation, how his betrayal ruined everything for you, why you couldn’t find enough worth in the rest of us. On that day, on that day, Mother carried me small in her belly and two years would pass before my brother was born. I suspect I am like you; can hear the worry in Mom’s voice. Inheritance is a mixed velvet bag lined in black silk. Some traits are doled out over time, the ones we’d rather throw back. |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
OhCorinne~ The depth of this is just compelling~ And this - 'but this family breeds secrets, hides them like recessive genes.' - utter genius !!! You are an amazing writer, my friend~ *Huglets* ~*Marge*~ ~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost, |
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Corinne Member Ascendant
since 1999-10-28
Posts 5167state of confusion |
Marge, you are a dear, sweet person. Thank you! Corinne |
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Aenimal Member Rara Avis
since 2002-11-18
Posts 7350the ass-end of space |
Inheritance is a mixed velvet bag lined in black silk. Some traits are doled out over time, the ones we’d rather throw back. this broke me core..awesome |
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Sadelite Member Elite
since 2003-10-11
Posts 2519 |
Whoa... this one got me. After reading your first verse, I was compelled to go on. When you wrote Vaudeville, it brought back the memory of one of my best friends who was the daughter of a Vaudeville dancer. I can't imagine the times! For my friend, they lasted her a lifetime and kept her young. Last time I saw her, she was close to ninety, dancing as if she was twenty. She always had dance in her eyes! It would be nice if you knew more about your Grandmother. I imagine there were many good and amazing things that occurred in her life that you just haven't heard about... Sadelite [This message has been edited by Sadelite (11-12-2003 09:20 PM).] |
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Mistletoe Angel
since 2000-12-17
Posts 32816Portland, Oregon |
 (big hugggsssssss) Oh Corinne, this is so very sad but beautiful, sweet friend, I send many angel hugs your way and may you keep all the meaningful traits deep in the purse! (sigh) God Bless You, sweet friend, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Corinne, thank you for sharing!  May love and light always shine upon you! Love, Noah Eaton I don't need no proof when it comes to God and truth |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Oh [find an appropriate word and insert it here, sun....] Ok, my voice doesn't work as I have laryngitis, but that doesn't take away from the fact that if I could speak, I would have to say you rendered me speechless. You know what this poem is? It's the kind that is read at poetry readings, and there is a collective gasp, and silence, then standing ovation. That's what this poem is. |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
No this poem is not standing ovations or shocked silence.. sorry Sunshine... this breathes and in its exhale we are to sense the essence of its depths..and to always wonder at the things which lay between the lines and words which inspired it.. this is alive.. and stands on its own without ovation or recognition... but is very likely to receive both. |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Hey...I didn't say "shocked" silence. So I'm only half wrong?  Corinne, I'll let Cpat have his say, if you let me give you my applause. Deal?  |
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jwesley Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563Spring, Texas |
Just plain beautifully written / conceived / passionately expressed. Mucho applause, me friend. jwesley |
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James_A_Fraser Senior Member
since 2003-09-03
Posts 972Out Making Anticlines |
I'll vote with the captain, I'd like to hear it read aloud. TO HER. |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
Awesome work, Cor... how well I understand. |
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