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Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

0 posted 2014-07-20 01:17 PM

Hard Tinge

I love a soft, soft song;
But I need a hard tinge.
For a life I got wrong,
For time spent on the fringe.
I know I missed my calling,
God, I sold my soul for love.
All those years spent free-falling,
What was I thinking of?

Now I pick up the guitar,
And it feels queer in my hand.
I pick it with just my fingers,
But it sounds, and it feels, bland.
Magic, once there, is missing;
How it used to grasp the soul,
And squeeze till I was bled dry—
Till the darkness took its toll.

With the dreams that I've been chasing
Finally yielding their reward,
The reality I'm facing
Comes as a double-edged sword.
The music I abandoned
Having now abandoned me,
And the love I gave it up for
Surely never meant to be.

Michael Anderson

7/20/2014

[This message has been edited by Michael (09-28-2014 11:14 AM).]

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

1 posted 2014-07-20 01:29 PM

Double edged swords, I know them well. I can relate to the emotion behind this one. As always your form is perfection.

Lori

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2014-07-20 01:52 PM

When there is still darkness on someone's life the guitar knows it and refuses to cooperate. It will start sounding the way it used to, only if you start being the man you used to be. Yep. I know that you know this, but I just had to say it.

~*~ Tell the truth, but tell it slant.--Emily Dickimsom ~*~

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius

since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

3 posted 2014-07-23 02:39 PM

You express so much feeling and emotion...
You write so nice...however sadly.

Sunshine

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

4 posted 2014-08-15 10:21 PM

You made remembers here, Michael...brought back the gilt-edged love my brother had for his music, and the guilt-edged life he found with it...

but I love him still the same.

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

5 posted 2014-08-18 10:46 AM

I hope you find that magic again... for even though I can only play the radio, I know music seduces, entertains, soothes, enlightens... and heals. *S*

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

6 posted 2014-09-21 06:21 PM

Well, they do say that music can be soothing. Michael. Maybe in time it will be.
Ida

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

7 posted 2014-09-23 11:30 AM

Change is bound to occur, dear Michael. For one with your immense sensitivity music must be a wonderful companion, even if it conveys sadness. It's a phase, the world is full of melancholic songs, but they all vibrate with a spark of hope. It's the same with your verses. In my belief one can not "get a life wrong", as all of our experiences are necessary to grow in understanding life's facets.

I sometimes wonder when I read your wonderfully written sad poems, what an extraordinary miracle it would be to read you in that moment of inspiration when love and light and joy peak through the dark clouds you hang out on the sky. Sadness is a very intense human emotion and in my opinion it always contains the deep longing for the opposite,

Love,
Margherita

Gale
Senior Member

since 2013-06-10

Posts 578
Russia

8 posted 2014-09-23 11:37 AM

A sad and so beautifully written poem, Michael!
I can relate to.

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

9 posted 2014-09-26 08:09 PM

Ahhhh...and so we make our bed and have no choice but to lay in it! Hindsight is alwsys 20/20....hope u find ur song again!

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