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Wikket
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since 2000-01-29
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Santa Clara, CA USA

0 posted 2000-01-30 09:29 PM


A small child
weeping…

She walks a lonely road
dreaming…

Carrying her heart which is
breaking…

In her hands that are
shaking…

The girl watches the trees
wondering…

Sees the limbs
beckoning…

The cliffs just beyond
whispering…

Her wretched thoughts
mounting…

And her sanity
scrambling…

Out of her mind; on a thread
dangling…

As she wanders her path set in stone.


--Kinda wrote this one for my sister, she's going through some hard things.  She doesn't know yet, what do you all think?


© Copyright 2000 Jamie Carlson - All Rights Reserved
Poet deVine
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Hurricane Alley
1 posted 2000-01-30 10:02 PM


It's good..the tone is dark, but I guess that's what you were going for....hope your sister is doing better..  

Denise
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2 posted 2000-01-31 12:03 PM


I like it too! I'm sure she'll love it!

Denise

Janet Marie
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since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554

3 posted 2000-01-31 03:28 PM


this is very good..I like the way you wrote it "stretched out"...Im sure your sister will be very moved by the poem and the fact that she inspires you..and hopefully will find strength and healing in your words...the true gift of giving another a poem. Take care, Janet Marie

 Some things cannot be explained by verses that rhyme,
They are not measured by the commitment of time.
Some emotions run too deep to be described by words,
Forgiveness and understanding-
remain the most beautiful words ever heard.
Janet Marie



Exile
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since 2000-01-23
Posts 42

4 posted 2000-02-01 01:19 PM


Wow...

How old is your sister? It DOES seem pretty dark...to be honest, I was hoping for an upbeat ending.

This one's hard to forget....esp. for an Exile, to whom "the road home" has a special meaning.

I wish you and your sister the very best; please keep us informed of her progress.

Exile

Munda
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since 1999-10-08
Posts 3544
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5 posted 2000-02-01 02:07 PM


This is a good poem Wikket ! If I were you're sister, I'd be deeply touched you wrote something for me, eventhough the circumstances might have been better. Hope she feels better soon : )
Gene
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since 2000-01-23
Posts 935
Colorado, USA
6 posted 2000-02-01 09:05 PM


Wikket,

Nice poem. Maybe you could tell your sister that there are many paths in life. Also, even stone changes.

~Gene



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Wikket
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since 2000-01-29
Posts 340
Santa Clara, CA USA
7 posted 2000-02-02 07:35 PM


Thank you all for your comments... I appreciate them.  Actually, I wrote this trying to put myself in her mind.  Right now, she sees everything one from one vantage point and I was trying to develop the idea that the only way to change where she's going is to change the way she sees it.  Guess I screwed up there! --Jamie  

 "...at night I cling to you I'm so afraid;
afraid the day will come
and I'll wake up and find you gone.
But you promise that you'd not abandon me
and kissed my fears away
but I woke up to that day..."
'Waking up Beside You' by Stabbing Westward

Broken_Winged_Angel
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since 2000-04-06
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Small Town, Somewhere
8 posted 2000-04-14 05:58 AM


Beautiful and soul touching...
Swåmp¤Faerÿie
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since 2000-03-29
Posts 358
Illinois
9 posted 2000-04-17 06:01 PM


no,wikket i don't really think you messed it up,but i would look for a place to put in a line or two about things being the way they are to her....only because she sees them that way. Tell her she can change that.

 And there she weaves by night and day,
a magic web of colours gay.~Tennyson

Swåmp¤Faerÿie
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10 posted 2000-04-17 06:03 PM


P.S. it's a wonderful poem anyway  

 And there she weaves by night and day,
a magic web of colours gay.~Tennyson

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