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faithmairee
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since 2011-01-05
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Poe Haven, USA

0 posted 2011-02-20 12:12 PM



what do men want
you say i don't know
but i know
what men want
you ask what then
men want something else
other than what?
other than what
they have, of course

you admit, for some
men that's true
why waste what you have
worrying about what
you don't have and
what will you want
once you've lasso'd me
something else---or what?  


There must be a poem in here somewhere.

© Copyright 2011 Faith Elizabeth Brigham - All Rights Reserved
JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
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South Louisiana
1 posted 2011-02-20 12:52 PM


I feel dizzy after reading this, Faith. Not your fault, it is the ambiguity of the male that has me teetering. Hah! Yep. We want what we haven't got. And women don't?

~ Life is sexually transmitted ~

JerryPat2
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2 posted 2011-02-20 12:55 PM


By the way, I understand the gist of this, once we have it, why then do we sniff around somewhere else? Good question. I think it is because we still have the hunter's blood in our veins and are never satisfied with the "catch." It is the hunter in us. I had that explained to me once and I have never forgotten it.

~ Life is sexually transmitted ~

faithmairee
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Poe Haven, USA
3 posted 2011-02-20 12:58 PM


actually, i think it's human nature to want what you don't have or to think it's  "greener on the other side"...but i just chose men for this poem because of the men i have met....doesn't mean they're all like that of course

There must be a poem in here somewhere.

faithmairee
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since 2011-01-05
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Poe Haven, USA
4 posted 2011-02-20 12:59 PM


i was writing my response while you were doing your post script...i understand men better now...thank you, JerryPat

There must be a poem in here somewhere.

Lori Grosser Rhoden
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since 2009-10-10
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5 posted 2011-02-20 02:06 PM


I think the men that aren't like that are few and far between.  I got lucky.
Lori

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16
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Kapolei, Hawaii, USA
6 posted 2011-02-24 05:05 PM


Nice writing....I think this applys to men and women...perhaps the percentages are a little different...James
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