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Copperbell
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0 posted 2009-02-22 11:03 PM



a shard of ice
Imbedded in your heart
numbs you

     but it is still pain

Too many winters
it has thrived within
your softest place

    and your wine hides it oh so well

you limp
on a once-mighty paw
now not so useful

    but you’ve learned to compensate

Come close
Small one
Come close

like a bird frightened
unable to fly
I will hold you
I promise not to hurt you

Come close
and I will set you free



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Bill Charles
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highways, & byways, for now
1 posted 2009-02-22 11:30 PM


Copperbell - I enjoy reading your writings...

BC

serenity blaze
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2 posted 2009-02-23 12:01 PM


*smile*

I couldn't help but think of Mickey Rourke...

bravo, brava

a good thing done!

yay

(great title btw...)


ethome
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New Brunswick Canada
3 posted 2009-02-23 03:51 AM


Good work cleverly done!

Eric

Copperbell
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4 posted 2009-02-23 08:51 AM


Thank you Bill

and Serenity

and Ethome.

OwlSA
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5 posted 2009-02-23 11:01 AM


And I thought about a great big lion, and I didn't want the kitty cat to be hurt, so I tiptoed in, ready to back out in a hurry - lovely poem, and thank you for not hurting a lion!

- Owl

Mark Bohannan
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6 posted 2009-02-23 11:40 AM


Life has a way of hardening us and sometimes it does take someone very special to warm that wound.  Excellent read here and very much worth the visit.
Robert E. Jordan
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7 posted 2009-02-23 12:31 PM


Yo dear Copperbell,

I like the thought expressed by your poem.  It's fairly well done.

Love Bobby

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Gaia
8 posted 2009-02-23 01:01 PM


Thanks for the caring and tenderness presented in this fine write!
Marchmadness
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9 posted 2009-02-24 03:53 AM


You write with great sensitivity and understanding, Copperbell. Always enjoy your writing.
                              Ida

Copperbell
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10 posted 2009-02-24 08:54 AM


Thanks for commenting
Owl and Mark, Bobby, Midnite and March!

Glad you enjoyed my poem.

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