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Parker
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0 posted 2007-09-04 10:22 PM


A Photograph Remaining

I saw you standing
A silhouette of silvered wax
Silent in the window watching
Mournful eyes of gray dew
A photograph of black and winter hues

What draws you to this light?
Is there comfort in these silver tendrils?
Like a blanket from a dusty gray attic
Warm as the wax in a mournful candle
A gray photograph on your window mantle

The waning moon is not yet gone
I know you wait as the shadows lengthen
Your silhouette hardly a feathers weight leaning
And you remain hidden until this gray returning
And in my heart I watch a photograph remaining

James Parker Haley  ©2007 September

(ARH thanks for the inspiration from your poem and the Picture in your post "My Friend the Moon" /pip/Forum104/HTML/000997.html)


© Copyright 2007 James Haley - All Rights Reserved
Kit McCallum
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1 posted 2007-09-05 06:24 AM


What a wonderful visual, Parker ... so good to read you again!  You've painted this silouette in my mind as surely as if I saw it with my own eyes. Really well done. Much enjoyed!

Best wishes,
/Kit

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2 posted 2007-09-05 08:58 AM


Parker!!!!

enjoyed this write from you, mostly these lines....

"And you remain hidden until this gray returning
And in my heart I watch a photograph remaining"

marcel
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3 posted 2007-09-05 01:25 PM


this photograph i see clearly.......as if closing my eyes, i could feel the moment..beautifully written.
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4 posted 2007-09-05 10:46 PM


oh Parker! So glad that I inspired you,
nice to see you and could you repost that poem of your voice with it? so we can hear you again!     


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5 posted 2007-09-16 08:26 PM


Well, well, look who I found!

Good to see you are still writing, my friend.

Hope all is well with you.

Love the haunting tone of this!
Corinne

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6 posted 2007-09-17 02:06 AM


You know you're in love, when you can't fall asleep,because reality is finally better than your dream~Dr.Seuss

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7 posted 2007-09-17 03:17 AM


Tried to email you...the forum is not allowing me to do so..saying, I need to be a member first LOL!

~HUGS
ARH

You know you're in love, when you can't fall asleep,because reality is finally better than your dream~Dr.Seuss

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8 posted 2007-09-17 08:02 AM


Parker~
This is lovely~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*The sound of a kiss is not as strong as that of a cannon, but it's echo endures much longer*~
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9 posted 2007-11-18 01:17 AM


We don't need no stinking picture...you paint your own pictures when you write my friend....

As always, this sits on my heart like a good massage.... !  

Love to read you!!  You are one of my favorite poets! and I'll tip my hat, to the lady who lent you inspiration...

lv,g

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10 posted 2007-11-18 09:36 AM


Lovely

ARCTIC WIND

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11 posted 2007-11-18 12:16 PM


enjoyed
Parker
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12 posted 2007-11-18 12:23 PM


Thank you all for the replies.

Its strange what you don't see in a picture the first time you look at it. I wonder if I would have written differently had I seen the second image that my mind ignore the first time.

Parker

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13 posted 2007-11-18 06:39 PM


Oh I get it! great job, seeing two things at one time, sometimes poems , if read twice could have more meaning, or another meaning.


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