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Cpat Hair
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0 posted 2010-06-22 10:07 AM



Rainbows are painted backdrops
Pigments on canvas that ripple when the stage hands
Forget and turn the wind machines on
Or trip over the cord and raise the doors
Letting sunshine and wind
Enter through stale cellular frames

Over exposure and the burned out magic
Gets discarded on the floor
As so many bits of acting that didn’t quite
Measure up to the dreams that followed
A yellow brick road
                            Nowhere was it written
That Dorothy would fall as she did
Or that the heartless hollow of tin
Would learn to feel with more
Than the rusted ideas and the past fade of eyes

Down at the post office the brass boxes are lined up
Numbered in the hundreds so that no one feels less
Than the three digits they are known by
When the letters come
      
Oz has no zip code
Only the colors and songs of some young girl
With more heart than years

Put the wrappers on and stamp soft words
Hidden in the weave of fiber
And much like the painted rainbows
Only a part of what is real

Dearest Dorothy
    It began in a cadence of propriety
That hid the celluloid dreams and frames
Still shot within the mind
    Of her hair beneath his fingers
And the less hollow sound of her sigh
Warm upon his cheek

My dear girl, my heart is found only now
Within the echo of the memories
Made when you were here

Seal the flap and savor one last feel
Of the texture of words under your tongue
There is no zip code in Oz
   Only a place where mail is left
For those who come this way
Now and then
To read
                 And dream

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bel1e
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1 posted 2010-06-22 12:09 PM


~~~This is endearing, intimate...heartfelt....and left a pang in my heart, Chief~*~*~*~

so beautiful~

xoxoxoxox

         

Cpat Hair
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2 posted 2010-06-22 12:14 PM


Thank you ma'am.... glad you found something in it to enjoy. I wsn't sure when this was written if it was a passage of hope or a post script.... still not sure I know. But it is what it is.

your eyes on my thin scribblings are always appreciated Belle.. thank you

Dark Stranger
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3 posted 2010-06-22 04:02 PM


Cpat..this oz brew is colorful and filled with floating gems that roll to my fried mind's eye and make me grin...muycoolo' guy
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