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passing shadows
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0 posted 2012-09-09 01:48 PM



Life,

like playing along with the acoustic version
of God Bless This Broken Road,

I'm no good at it.

Death,

like a coiled up copperhead
you don't see till you step on it,

I'm in fear of it.


No other option...
it's black or white.


© Copyright 2012 Dixie Lee Bullington - All Rights Reserved
JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
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1 posted 2012-09-09 02:19 PM


Death should not be feared, passing shadows. It should not be welcomed either unless we are in so much pain it would be a Godsend. Death is just a fact of life, like being born and living. I think this whole thing about birth, living and death might could have had more thought put into it, but it seems it is all we have.

~*~ If they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~

MARK V SHELDON
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2 posted 2012-09-09 04:25 PM


Heh, heh...  Says, YOU! I say:  Steer over that snake with a Rebel Yell and then whistle Dixie!  Good to read you again, my friend!

-MVS

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http://educate-yourself.org/intro.shtml

secondhanddreampoet
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3 posted 2012-09-09 07:23 PM


Haven't seen the 'white' ... but, I agree that there really is no 'gray' ...
and WAY to many dark wolves on most horizons ... 'black' is now the
basal color of far too many lives amid this 'Runaway American Dream' ...

Goldenrose
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4 posted 2012-09-11 05:37 PM


Hope you always stay in lifes bright light...your far too good a poet to always be in the dark..

Goldenrose.

music was my refuge.i could crawl into the spaces between the notes and curl my back to loneliness - Maya Angelou

jwesley
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since 2000-04-30
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5 posted 2012-09-11 05:53 PM


Once, a few years ago, I awoke in the middle of the night and my right eye saw the room as black (as black as it is in your bedroom in the middle of the night anyway), but my left eye saw white - as stark and bright as the sun.  Even when I closed that eye, it still saw white.  The other black.  This lasted about 5 or 6 minutes and scared the b-jeebies out of me.  Then it slowly cleared and I saw the same from both eyes again. I saw the world, again.

Every since I never believed in only black and white, because I know black and I know white, and life is anything but.

And I strive to live everyday knowing life that way.


j.

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