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Dominique-Simone
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0 posted 2007-07-07 06:43 PM



My veranda, ivy set, holds me high up to the world;
along the hedge my heart blooms in colors, painting dreams.
Bone pillars reach out, pleading in ominous emotions
without consideration. I sit naked in white cloth, governing the day
with meticulous tasks; she sits across in twin face, asking me what is wrong

Mirror gazes deeply, her life lives in places I have been before;
stairs winding, lead to hallways where tears have not spilled.
My bucket, heavy with sadness creaks in fragile hand
sloshing the days back and forth.
Bars on windows rusted with regret, lock me inside
as tall ceilings laugh at me in acoustics, it is a familiar sound

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The Lady
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since 2005-12-26
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1 posted 2007-07-07 06:51 PM




"My bucket, heavy with sadness creaks in fragile hand
sloshing the days back and forth."

Page
the loss of love is so hard
especially when it is lost to a disease
taking your hope with it

dream again little one
it will happen

paullallady
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since 2007-04-03
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Michigan
2 posted 2007-07-07 07:54 PM


what an amazing image of sadness, and loss.  wonderful poem.
Rick
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since 2001-06-21
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Victoria, Australia
3 posted 2007-07-07 08:11 PM


I so enjoyed your penning here, though sad.

My bucket, heavy with sadness creaks in fragile hand
sloshing the days back and forth.

Wonderful lines my friend. May happiness find its way to you.

Rick

Earth Angel
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Realms of Light
4 posted 2007-07-08 01:18 AM


Oh, how your words ache. I can feel them in the pt of my tummy.

"Bars on windows rusted with regret, lock me inside
as tall ceilings laugh at me in acoustics, it is a familiar sound"

I'm sending you a crowbar to break down those rusty old confining self-limiting windsow ~ and for knocking some sense into those insensitive ceilings!

Loving hug,
EA

Dominique-Simone
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since 2005-11-12
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5 posted 2007-07-08 01:29 AM


Thank you all.. It is good to know that I can still write and that you all understand where my sadness is coming from. soon I hope my poetry will be happier... although even in my happiness I have always written in sadness. Not sure why.
Aloneinmyhead
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since 2007-07-08
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Tennessee
6 posted 2007-07-08 10:21 AM


"I sit naked in white cloth, governing the day
with meticulous tasks; she sits across in twin face, asking me what is wrong"

This makes sense to me, kind of like you are sad but part of you doesn't know why.

Dominique-Simone
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7 posted 2007-07-08 05:46 PM


A sad part doesn't know why. I may never
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