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icebox
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since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

0 posted 2004-10-22 08:08 AM

The day began here with a growl,
garbage truck at dawn howling in protest
at another load
of human cast off waste
and broken dreams.
School bus brake screams,
months past its service date;
I guess the company decided
brakes can wait,
after all
how much can those little kids weigh
anyway?
Today I wish for joy
for friends whose burdens weigh them down.
Today I wish my eyes would heal faster
so I don’t just sit around and feel them itch.
I shouldn’t bitch I suppose
“God only knows” the saying goes;
who will live to count the lilies in the fields
when Spring’s soft breath
again flows through the world.

©2004 by icebox

Honeybunch
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since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

1 posted 2004-10-22 08:23 AM

“God only knows” the saying goes;
who will live to count the lilies in the fields
when Spring’s soft breath
again flows through the world."

And so I wish joy for you today. I always awake with the birds so I guess I can consider myself fortunate. The garbage comes later ... when I start thinking.

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

2 posted 2004-10-22 08:29 AM

icebox
That write is your pass for a lovely day.

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

3 posted 2004-10-22 08:53 AM

Today I wish for joy

~*~

Nodding, and smiling back at you...

Kahlil
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since 2003-04-12

Posts 1881

4 posted 2004-10-22 08:59 AM

Today I wish for joy for you, Icebox,
whether you get out or journey
in that beautiful mind of yours.

K

wranx
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since 2002-06-07

Posts 3689
Moved from a shack to a barn

5 posted 2004-10-22 09:23 AM

Not alone in that m'friend...Nope

Ratleader

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since 2003-01-23

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Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass

6 posted 2004-10-22 09:25 AM

It's hard for a man, to say these things....and when we say them the images are often hard as well but when they are handled with the light touch their sharp edges demand, they make the meaning even more poignant.

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Martie

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since 1999-09-21

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California

7 posted 2004-10-22 10:59 AM

icebox

I also wish you joy and a healthy portion of feeling well.

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

8 posted 2004-10-22 11:30 AM

God must like idiots. He makes a lot of them.

Toerag
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since 1999-07-29

Posts 5622
Ala bam a

9 posted 2004-10-22 11:42 AM

What a wonderful write....I needed to read this today....Really did...

Cpat Hair

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since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

10 posted 2004-10-22 04:38 PM

Today I wish for joy
for friends whose burdens weigh them down.
Today I wish my eyes would heal faster
so I don’t just sit around and feel them itch.
I shouldn’t bitch I suppose
“God only knows” the saying goes;
who will live to count the lilies in the fields
when Spring’s soft breath
again flows through the world.
thanks sir... needed to read something like this today..

scorpio
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since 2002-10-02

Posts 5178
right...there

11 posted 2004-10-22 04:45 PM

Profound as always.

believe in what your heart feels...

Magnus

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since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

12 posted 2004-10-22 06:09 PM

profound, indeed...and these lines certainly
added a lot of umphh to it all:

“God only knows” the saying goes;
who will live to count the lilies in the fields
when Spring’s soft breath
again flows through the world.

Huan Yi
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since 2004-10-12

Posts 6688
Waukegan

13 posted 2004-10-22 09:23 PM

SERVICES

There was a man in the land of Ur.

Who’s that at my coattails?
A pale cocksman.

Hush!
the rabbi walks in thought
as in an ordained measure
to the Ark
and slowly opens its great doors.
The congregation rises
and faces the six torahs
and the covenant
and all beyond.
The Ark glows.

Hear, O Israel!

The rabbi stands before the light
inside, alone, and prays.
It is a modest prayer
for the responsibilities of his office.
The congregation is silent.

I too pray:
Let Leah my wife be recompensed for her sweet smile
and our many years of companionship
and not stick me when she cuts my hair.
And let her stay at my side at large gatherings.
And let my son George and his wife Leanna
and my daughter Barbara be close,
and let their children, Jennifer, Julie and Joanna
be my sheep
and I their old shepherd.
Let them remain as they are.

And let not my white hair frighten me.

The tiger leaps,
the baboon cries,
Pity, pity.
The rabbi prays.

There was a man in the land of Ur.

I, son of Leopold and Flora,
also pray:
I pray for meaning,
I pray for the physical,
for my soul needs no suppliant.
I pray for man.

and may a special providence look out
for those who feel deeply.

Carl Rakosi

Juju
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since 2003-12-29

Posts 3429
In your dreams

14 posted 2004-10-22 09:27 PM

Ice box asome poem. John that too was an awsome poem, good pic.

Juju

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

15 posted 2004-10-22 09:33 PM

Excellent write!!
Well done sir.
Hugs~

~Autumn..the year's last, loveliest smile.~

Aenimal
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since 2002-11-18

Posts 7350
the ass-end of space

16 posted 2004-10-23 04:29 AM

nods n sighs

Susan Caldwell
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since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

17 posted 2004-10-23 08:19 AM

"who will live to count the lilies in the fields
when Spring’s soft breath
again flows through the world."

True..sobering thoughts....

love ya Icy!

"cast me gently into the morning, for the night has been unkind"
~Sarah McLachlan~

Nan

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since 1999-05-20

Posts 21191
Cape Cod Massachusetts USA

18 posted 2004-10-23 08:34 AM

Sending you a smile... and thinking about "getting up & out" myself...

Mark Bohannan
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since 2000-06-21

Posts 7269
In the winds of Cherokee song

19 posted 2004-10-23 12:08 PM

Well you just gave me some smiles for my day from a very enjoyable write. I am thinking you really should get out more as just the thought of such spurns this, then I cannot wait to see what comes from a trip around the block. VERY MUCH ENJOYED.

Tequilia_Sunrise
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since 2003-02-19

Posts 612
Lochalsh, Ontario, Canada

20 posted 2004-10-23 10:01 PM

great write

littlewing
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since 2003-03-02

Posts 9655
New York

21 posted 2004-10-23 10:01 PM

and joy right back to you, Icey . . .

Copperbell
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since 2003-11-08

Posts 956

22 posted 2004-10-24 01:22 AM

Me too - much enjoyed

“God only knows” the saying goes;
who will live to count the lilies in the fields
when Spring’s soft breath
again flows through the world.

beautiful - hope and fear

*Alli4000*

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since 2004-03-21

Posts 3188
The World of Poetry

23 posted 2004-10-24 01:43 AM

"Today I wish for joy
for friends whose burdens weigh them down."

I wish for that too.

great write.

~Alli~

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Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened...

Dark Angel
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since 1999-08-04

Posts 10095

24 posted 2004-10-24 01:59 AM

Today I wish for joy
for friends whose burdens weigh them down.

Absolutely love this ice-man

and I am haunted
by my illicit exquisite dream
but I can't really wake up
so I just drift in between

~ani difranco~

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