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So this is my fill? It’s not even full.
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So this is my fill? It’s not even full. |
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Edward Grim Senior Member
since 2005-12-18
Posts 1154Greenville, South Carolina 
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So this is my fill? It’s not even full. I tramp uncaringly through the thin embarrassed waters of a weak, pinkeyed stream. Pitiful rill… forget your father and his lariat. Forget the broken home that left you half-spawned hungering for thirst of strife, the glory of dead tongues tasting the yore-worn minutes of the torrents that was mother’s late, millhouse-grinding Rome. Forget the broken home he forged from steel wool, the conundrum (your birth sprung from lovemaking) that left you cracked without crease hemorrhaging without artery atop that which sits below beside an angle without curve, that woman of similar circumstance: the children, the boys of twelve, the boys of youth and ire the straits you’ll never be. "Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert E. |
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Alison 
since 2008-01-27
Posts 9318Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy! |
Ed, I miss you when you are gone too long. This poem touches me deeply - I don't know why we are forced to live our parent's demons and dysfunctions. They say childhood is the golden time - in reality, too many of us were like those etch-a-sketch toys. The lines were drawn, the pictures formed, only to be shaken away with the thought that they would disappear permanently. Not so. And now we try to connect those lines and it's sometimes too damn hard. I may have missed the point of your poem - but that is what I love about poetry. It touches us all on various levels and we may not get the same thing out of it. You hit my level that is hurting lately. Alison |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
 Forget the mud in the stream, and focus on the crystal clear spots. Good to read you, Ed. |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
and tsk..I wanted to wish you a bouncy w/b, but this is hollow-hurt powerful stuff, Ed. wow |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
Some memories we treasure, hold tight and hope we never forget. Others we try to bury, throw away... only to find they're on a bungee cord. I've missed your powerful work!! |
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WindWalker Senior Member
since 2001-10-12
Posts 1218 |
This is a good one!!!! |
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Edward Grim Senior Member
since 2005-12-18
Posts 1154Greenville, South Carolina |
Thanks everybody, I'm glad it went over well. "Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert E. |
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