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JerryPat
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0 posted 2010-12-07 10:28 AM


sitting here on the bank
of Bayou Lafourche
loneliness is a state of funk
lethargic water meanders slowly
toward its predestined end
I watch with fascination
the slow-moving bayou and
its sole purpose
in life
swallowing deeply from the cask
of life's many tributaries
thinking how life is like
Bayou Lafourche
meandering through woe and glad
many different roads taken
many lives touched
some for the good
others for . . .
and as the bayou rolls toward
its end
emptying into Gulf of Mexico
can life's many roads be linked
to the bayou
these widely divergent roads
we trod
wearily at times
like an aged heavyweight
plodding toward the ring
fragile as an old lady
past his prime
past his worth
are we like Bayou Lafourche
predestined
or have we really
had choices
forGodsolovedtheworld
thathegavehisonlybegottenson

or

are we merely conditioned
from birth



. . . and the Raven said, %!~#&(&#!$!

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Dark Stranger
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1 posted 2010-12-07 12:10 PM


JP..I choose to believe we have choices and was pre-programmed to say that...enjoyed this ooze of mind.
JerryPat
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2 posted 2010-12-07 12:12 PM


Hah! Clever, DS.
Lori Grosser Rhoden
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3 posted 2010-12-07 12:28 PM


I enjoyed the pondering meander. Lori
JerryPat
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4 posted 2010-12-07 12:41 PM


Thank you, Lori

. . . and the Raven said, %!~#&(&#!$!

serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02
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5 posted 2010-12-07 06:09 PM


It is entirely possible to use a bayou for scrying.

Those odd, slow, rainbow murky whirlpools that have no apparent reason for being there, and the awe of history--one of nature's many monuments, the bayou is...

There's Bayou St. John, just right there in the middle of the freakin' city, too. I used to sneak off to them as I cut class, and think about those waterways as the highways and byways of the likes of Jean Lafitte.

ooops, I'm writing on your thread again.

My apologies.



Tonight's muse is brought to you by Nyquil.

Very much enjoyed the capture of the romance of the bayou.

*IKO*

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