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1slick_lady
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since 2000-12-22
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standing on a shadow's lace

0 posted 2007-12-26 10:59 AM


Lonely Sound

did I whisper
that I loved you
or dare to say
it out loud
regrets hang low
and heavy
like the grey geese
on the clouds
I try to fill
the spaces empty
my fingers ache
for your face
feathers bounce
off my outline
for I am a silhouette
pencil traced
once there was
a hazy design
where the water
kissed fluid sand
became too anxious
to wet my feet
and the liquid fell
off of my hand
have I missed
my lifetime chance
flocked blending
into the background
to be just another
bird upon the wind
or will your wings
reach for me
with your own
lonely sound


"no darkness has ever been deep enough to extinguish my personal knowledge of love"  Anne Rice



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Margherita
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since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236
Eternity
1 posted 2007-12-26 11:23 AM


or will your wings
reach for me
with your own
lonely sound


A powerful write with a great ending.
Two lonely sounds may well melt and give birth to a new "attunement".

Love,
Margherita

TomMark
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since 2007-07-27
Posts 2133
LA,CA
2 posted 2007-12-26 04:45 PM


very beautiful. I read many times.
A sad poem right after Christmas.

Beautiful
TM

Earth Angel
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since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215
Realms of Light
3 posted 2007-12-26 05:00 PM


"I try to fill
the spaces empty
my fingers ache
for your face"

~ I do so know the ache of this...

May all those empty spaces be filled with happy moments in 2008.


Linda

Ceinwyn
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since 2000-07-09
Posts 2175
VA
4 posted 2007-12-26 05:13 PM


the sound is deafening I'm with Linda and everyone else on this. May the emptiness be filled in the New Year to come.

If at first you don't succeed destroy all the evidence that you tried.

secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07
Posts 6394
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5 posted 2007-12-29 05:45 PM


An interesting ‘write!’…

I am especially fond of:

“regrets hang low
and heavy
like the grey geese
on the clouds”;

“I am a silhouette
pencil traced”;

and, the ending:

“will your wings
reach for me
with your own
lonely sound”

Applause!

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