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icebox
Member Elite

since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

0 posted 2003-11-30 11:46 PM

It is cold tonight,
all the ghosts dragged out
for the holidays
will be kept close by
for the next few weeks
until they're tucked away,
snug again,
in the mixed wrappings
of others' cast off memories.

I'm sure,
each in our own way,
we all said again,
"Remember when...."
and laughed,
or cried,
or quietly denied
complicity in petty crimes
and misdemeanors;
the dead always
are larger than the living,
if you haven't recognized this
as the way of life
just wait long enough
and it will be your turn;
don't worry,
I'll go first
the jump is not so bad
once you get your mind around forever.

I would never want to bring you down,
after all,
it is the silly season once again
and half the planet needs
to brighten up the short dark days
of winter;
we are gathered here,
in this strange community,
so close and yet so far apart;
truly,
there's no other time in history
to this date,
when so many souls could merge
in thought and feeling
without dealing in the pragmatic,
the baser sides of life;
so many poets,
yet so few,
of course this cyber medium is new
and here we can get by
outnumbered in the world at large.

You know,
we are each of us a gatekeeper,
each in our own way in charge
of our own private door
to the time and space
of our own little corners of awareness,
and through each door
for a moment's chance,
we can dance and choose
to visit many worlds
we'd have otherwise not known.

I wish you all the best of times
and peace unto your hearts;
the future always is unknown,
and yet,
it always starts with each new breath
and each new dawn;
so let us drink
to absent friends and then
continue while we may,
to share our thoughts,
our feelings great and small,
and for the time you share with me
I simply want to thank you all.

©2003 by icebox

Sparticus
Member

since 2003-11-15

Posts 245

1 posted 2003-11-30 11:51 PM

Nicely done piece, I enjoyed your ease of pace, culminating with your appreciation.

Excellent piece.

Sparticus.

Even with insects-
some can sing
some can't

-Issa
http://www.geocities.com/amanaman3/Jessepoems.html

skyshine

Member Elite

since 2002-02-07

Posts 3058
Beneath the northern stars

2 posted 2003-12-01 12:08 PM

I really don't know how to reply--but thank you too.

~sky

Dreams last for so long, even after you're gone...
~Jewel

Martie

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

3 posted 2003-12-01 12:38 PM

icebox

A very special man, you are and this poem is very touching. Thank you for writing it.

"I'll go first
the jump is not so bad
once you get your mind around forever."

*hug*

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

4 posted 2003-12-01 03:42 AM

thank you too

you bring much joy to me

Ratleader

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since 2003-01-23

Posts 7026
Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass

5 posted 2003-12-01 09:39 AM

"I'm sure,
each in our own way,
we all said again,
"Remember when...."
and laughed,
or cried,
or quietly denied
complicity in petty crimes
and misdemeanors; "

Not yet, but if the chance comes I hope to.

For now, I'll just join in thanking you, as one of our best, for this.

~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº>
______________Ratleader______________

Martie

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

6 posted 2003-12-02 10:25 AM

This needs to be back at the top where more can read it!

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

7 posted 2003-12-02 02:46 PM

Thank you, icebox, for letting us look at the world through your eyes!

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