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0 posted 2010-06-21 02:49 PM



“Great lands those”, he said as he sipped his tea
“The places that you can no longer find on maps”
“ Middle Earth, or OZ are just fairy tales now”

I nodded as I cradled my cup between palms
And remembered what I knew of dreams

Once, Up some time of long before or shortly after
There were reasons to believe in never end
For the rabbit hole still stood with sign
And yellow road was brightly paved
So few weeds those days it seems
To trip upon…


“It’s complicated” she said
and looked down at ruby slippers
not daring her eyes ahead, for she knew the fractured way
the fairy tales oft end was not the way of ever after happy
or of princess upon the steed
that had only been in Hollywood when for a while
they wanted stories to end in a smile of hope
with faith….. and a few dollars more
to make the next…..


“My good Man” my companion said with slight scold to voice
“are you listening at all to what I have said?”

I looked at him and forced a smile as I turned the cup in palms
“I’m sorry sir; I must confess I was lost in my own memories”

“What do you have to remember sir of such places as you asked?”
He inquired with curious tone

“Naught of maps or history sir, but of hearts, a great deal”
I replied, and thought back to the time of then
And cradled close the memories again


She looked up in time
And in her eyes I saw the struggles mount
A duty to the world she left and knew
Against the want to stay

I touched her cheek with fingertips


Looking over rim of cup I saw him stare at me
“I must go” I said and rose

“There are memories I must explore”


Chart 1 from the Appendix

I traced the muddled lines along the page
To feel the boundaries I knew would not exist but for mind
And the will to hold chaos from darkening
What was already a twilight of days and a midnight of stars

“Old this chart” I whispered to no one

“ I can never be” she told me, and the words
still come to me with the slight fear within her voice and the edge of cold
vowels brought with them when determined met the lips

I had drawn crude lines then upon a sheet
With glyphs to mark the places I knew I had been
Some I might have chance to see again while others
Grew smudged

“May I see?” she asked
“You already do, at least as your eyes will allow”
I answered softly but handed her the map knowing she would not see
But the lines and crude smudged edges

“Excuse me my good man”  
My companion from tea stood to my side and looked at the chart
As he spoke
“Yes?” I asked without taking my fingers from the place
I knew intersected two world but was only a muddled line
On the velum I held

“I too was once there” He said
“Might I see where you’ve been?”

I laughed softly then
Knowing he could not quite see where I had been
Or how when there the worlds of this realm had no meaning
No hold or grip on the soul
Knowing he did not know the you of then or now

I simply laid my hands flat upon the chart
“Here, where the pulse of my heart lies is where I have been m’friend”
and for a moment I felt her again
move along within my veins to settle as the soft ache she always was
in the depths of my soul

He smiled an aged and grizzled grin
Looked in my eyes and said
“I think we have a common friend, and it is not the one
who moves in you when you answer.”

I could not turn to face him then
I did not wish to take my mind from what I felt
Or the images that came of her standing in the wind
Looking out
As the moments of us were born
In a land of once some time upon a dream
Before we found
                        The empty space

[This message has been edited by Cpat Hair (06-21-2010 03:24 PM).]

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Martie
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1 posted 2010-06-21 04:02 PM


Hello Ron....captured in the poignancy of this, with you.
Cpat Hair
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2 posted 2010-06-21 04:08 PM


Hello Martie!
  This is the beginning of a series.. several poems along a theme that centers on a conversation within and without... on both memories and a dark sort of fellow

as with most anything I ever wrote..best taken in small quantities... LOL but a story of sorts with a thread throughout..

thank you...for your kind reply....

Sunshine
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3 posted 2010-06-21 04:33 PM


I noted a poem ago that you were into a
series of sensations again...

and you know how much I enjoy your series,
your seriousness, and you.

Oh yeah, I like the way you write, too.


Cpat Hair
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4 posted 2010-06-21 04:42 PM


Well now ma'am... I admit to being serious most of the time, but also to having a rather dry sense of humor from time to time as well...  sometimes the sense of humor is dry enough to be thought serious....

appreciate your kind words ma'am.... greatly

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5 posted 2010-06-21 05:56 PM


~listening intently to the sound of the wind whipping the vellum of pages in your handsome journal~*~

~adoring eyes~

      

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6 posted 2010-06-22 07:13 AM


Belle... thanks for your lovely eyes on this ma'am.... as always your comment is appreciated greatly.
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