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threadbear
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0 posted 2008-09-12 12:46 PM


Your Hit Parade

Sweet few heartbeats, that’s all that is left
Each day flies by like a fragile box kite
without life breezes to animate it.
Without peeking ahead at the ending,
small parades without a majorette
vehicles without round rolling vacations
choices made in sand.
Each moment is a pet that needs to be stroked
until it purrs
or breast-fed until sated,
growing within us, sometimes visible
usually not.
We smack our own hands in discouragement
regretting decisions
second-guessing
playing random selections from our personal jukebox –
It’s is startling, is it not
when you see your own tattooed reflection
when you least expect to?
the game finally balancing, despite our attempts to bribe the future
and everyone knows
that Fate

cheats.



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BluesSerenade
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By the Seaside
1 posted 2008-09-13 09:04 PM


This is something else, and it's all good!!

I so enjoyed reading your poem, threadbear~

threadbear
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2 posted 2008-09-15 01:08 AM


Thanks, Blues Lady, for being so sweet.  
Fate has a funny way of making us unthankful for all the gifts we're given, huh?
Folks ask: 'Why did this happen?'  well, sometimes the answer is just 'fate', and that's hard to swallow.

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