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icebox
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since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383
in the shadows

0 posted 2014-02-15 12:40 PM




This time of year
I'm as wasted as a ray of sunshine
when all the world wants sleep.

I watch,
peripatetic eyes of others' souls
wander aimlessly,
little lost puppies
more like food for the keep
than possible companions;
this time of year
nothing holds me dear.

It's moons like this when I remember
ease of running free,
cutting all the cloying threads
of faith's humanity,
when none could stand before me
when anger was set free;
this time of year,
it is easy to peel away
thin buckled veneer  
to sear the underbelly of soft propriety
and sheer away,
a ricochet screaming out of sight;
last night,
the tremolo wail of a moonstruck coyote
drifted tight through Winter's crack
in a window by my head.

He said, "Come join me,
I am hunting
along this frozen river's bed
and I tire of being lonely in the night."

          ©2004, 2007, 2014 by icebox




  

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EmmaRose
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since 2011-03-02
Posts 1376
Midwest
1 posted 2014-02-15 01:55 PM


Even in the supposedly barren world, there is life.  I enjoyed the primal feel to this
JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
2 posted 2014-02-15 02:00 PM


To be as one with the keepers of the forest even is a dream is a magnificent feeling.

~*~ Life is simpler when you plow around the stump. ~*~

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere
3 posted 2014-02-15 02:43 PM


You are an alchemist Sir Icebox!   You take cold gray snow and ice and weave a colorful tapestry such as this. Amazing!


Lori  

OwlSA
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since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa
4 posted 2014-02-16 05:47 PM


Charly, as superb as ever a poem of yours is.  I adore the coyote part, and read it in slow motion, wanting to hold the picture in my mind.  I was right there, and I heard him, I saw him, and I felt his presence.  

Owl

Margherita
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since 2003-02-08
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Eternity
5 posted 2014-02-17 05:39 AM


Shivers of emotion rise from your intense words here, dear Charly.

Margherita

Pweisbrod
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since 2011-10-14
Posts 27

6 posted 2014-02-18 08:57 PM


Really great. Felt crisp and cold.
latearrival
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since 2003-03-21
Posts 5499
Florida
7 posted 2014-02-22 01:07 PM


Charly, just spotted this one.Guess I was not here that day. Very touching,it shivers through my soul. best to you , jo
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