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Huan Yi
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since 2004-10-12
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Waukegan

0 posted 2010-03-25 11:22 AM


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There is
A certain vacant quality
In this after

You wander in any room
However crowded now
Poignantly aware of what
And who just isn’t there

A wind you cannot feel
Bends the listless trees outside
In a garden where flowers
Offer nothing in sight or scent
To obscure the sense of disrepair

One can not
See himself a king
White knight or cavalier
In a palace so obviously built
From the ruins of Rome

So bring on the wine
From other worlds
And take what pleasures
When they come

Why should an old man
Squander his treasure
And what little time remains
To serve a bird that never sings


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[This message has been edited by Huan Yi (03-26-2010 08:00 PM).]

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Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
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So. El Monte, California
1 posted 2010-03-25 03:55 PM


Wow! this is simply a stunning write, John. So glad to see you back. I have missed your unique brand of poetry.
                                     Ida

Margherita
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since 2003-02-08
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Eternity
2 posted 2010-03-25 06:01 PM


Very good!

M

1slick_lady
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since 2000-12-22
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standing on a shadow's lace
3 posted 2010-03-25 06:17 PM


i'll bring the moscato
i hope you like white
it is my fav

Juju
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since 2003-12-29
Posts 3429
In your dreams
4 posted 2010-03-25 11:19 PM


Wow.

Love it!!!

-Juju

-"So you found a girl
Who thinks really deep thoughts
What's so amazing about really deep thoughts " Silent all these Years, Tori Amos

Huan Yi
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since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688
Waukegan
5 posted 2010-03-26 07:07 PM


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Thank You

Occasionally  I might still do something that may be worth reading

Thanks again

John


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secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07
Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !
6 posted 2010-03-27 12:57 PM


This 'write' rather effectively 'sums it all up' for those of us 'ghosts'
from the Vietnam era who have lost everyone/everything that 'matters'
[particularly something to 'believe in']

well 'penned' !

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