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Rainbowdust
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since 2002-12-05
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Sydney, Australia

0 posted 2006-03-17 11:01 PM


Sometimes thoughts turn downwards
when someone asks 'are you ok?'
it releases a flood of tears
for no particular reason that you can explain

and the sight of a falling autumn leaf
makes you cry
and the thought of humanity
makes you weep

And you feel like you will never
truly belong
And it all feels wrong
And it all hurts.

And outside,
The full moon rises
shining in a clear sky

Like God has turned on his porch light
So all the lost and wandering souls
Can find their way home.

____
Inspired by icebox: /pip/Forum94/HTML/002080.html

The soul would have no rainbows, had the eyes no tears.

© Copyright 2006 Shireen - All Rights Reserved
icebox
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since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383
in the shadows
1 posted 2006-03-17 11:07 PM


I am honored by your thoughts and humbled by your talent.

Thank you for sharing this.

El_Campeador
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since 2003-01-29
Posts 761
Ohio, USA
2 posted 2006-03-17 11:44 PM


"Like God has turned on his porch light
So all the lost and wandering souls
Can find their way home"

This is awesome. It really touched me tonight. Thank you for sharing it.

Ben

“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” –Robert Louis Stevenson

vlraynes
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since 2000-07-25
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Somewhere... out there...
3 posted 2006-03-17 11:52 PM



All I can really say is 'thank you'...

I needed this tonight...

"When the power of love overcomes the love
of power the world will know peace."
--Jimi Hendrix

The Lady
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since 2005-12-26
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The Southwest
4 posted 2006-03-18 02:16 AM




"Like God has turned on his porch light
So all the lost and wandering souls
Can find their way home."

Nice work. The ending is just perfect.

OwlSA
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since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa
5 posted 2006-03-18 09:54 AM


Are you are sure that you are writing about you and not me?  Smiles.  Yes, I often find that God leaves the porch (or verandah, as we call it here in South Africa) light on for me - a wonderful moment always.  Enjoyed this.

- Owl

Earth Angel
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since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215
Realms of Light
6 posted 2006-03-18 10:36 AM


You poem was so sensitive, beautiful and full of Light, that tears literally welled up in my eyes.

Your pen is a veritable extension of your sweet and sensitive soul.

Love & God's Light,
Linda
:hugs;

XOx Uriah xOX
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since 2006-02-11
Posts 1403
Virginia
7 posted 2006-03-19 04:51 PM


Oh !   What a blessing!  I agree with Earth Angel...sensitive, beautiful and full of Light.  Like begets like.
Thank you

Goldenrose
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since 2003-05-30
Posts 3665

8 posted 2006-03-19 04:57 PM


Your heart is an instrument of rare delicacy rainbow, you bring it's glow and feeling to our eyes and minds to fill us with such joy..thank you..

Goldenrose.

Desire for nothing except desirelessness,hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes, want nothing and you will have everything.avatar Meher Baba.

Poet deVine
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Hurricane Alley
9 posted 2006-03-19 05:31 PM


Oh..this is good....the title drew me in and I love what you wrote!
StevenS
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since 2005-09-21
Posts 945
L. A. (Lower Alabama)
10 posted 2006-03-19 05:47 PM


Rainbowdust, this is beautiful. :-)
curiouse
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since 2006-03-21
Posts 277
england
11 posted 2006-03-26 06:44 AM


lovely,
curiouse :-)

Honeybunch
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since 2001-12-29
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South Africa
12 posted 2006-03-26 07:45 AM


Sometimes he turns his porch light on in the strangest of ways and the secret lies in recognizing that it is indeed his light. I really wish he would simplify matters for us!  Good write! Oh, and in a different part of South Africa we call it "patio" (just for interest sake).
JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16
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Kapolei, Hawaii, USA
13 posted 2006-03-27 06:16 PM


Enjoyed...James
passing shadows
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displaced
14 posted 2006-03-27 07:07 PM


I so enjoyed both of these poems!
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