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JOY 14
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since 1999-09-22
Posts 1419
Wisconsin USA

0 posted 2000-06-15 11:19 AM


Wandering spaces
Run from me
As I chase them with a butterfly net
From my early days
On this earth

On this earth
So full of swamps
And pools of light
Filling dirt in a hole
To cover an empty space

An empty space
That flies like a speck of dust
That I now watch
Flutter to the ground
Butterflies once trapped in a net
Fly away
I wander away from empty spaces.


 Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying,
And this same flower that smiles today
To-morrow will be dying.

-Robert Herrick



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dgvarner
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since 2000-05-13
Posts 3552
High Springs, Florida
1 posted 2000-06-15 12:01 PM


this is great writing joy!  the second rather abstract one i've read in the last 24hrs..     
i like abstract...it makes one think on it for a while...unfortunately, i'm not so good at writing that way myself these days...but i enjoyed reading yours     

dg


 "A Poet's life is on written page; a scenario to take the stage--watch..." dgvarner

childomine
Senior Member
since 2000-01-25
Posts 818
st. petersburg, FL
2 posted 2000-06-16 10:09 AM


I'm with dg - makes you look below the surface - think.  Very good.
JOY 14
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since 1999-09-22
Posts 1419
Wisconsin USA
3 posted 2000-06-16 01:08 PM


I thought it was rather abstract myself.  Kind of surprised myself.  I have a lot of abstract things jumbled up in my head but can very rarely put them down.  I'm happy w/ the end result here.  Thanks dg and childomine!

Joy

kelieth
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since 2000-06-12
Posts 314
Normal IL - USA
4 posted 2000-06-17 12:47 PM


Abstract indeed and enjoyable.  



 Kevin

"Anything is possible with patience, time is the tool use it to reach your goals."

Munda
Member Elite
since 1999-10-08
Posts 3544
The Hague, The Netherlands
5 posted 2000-06-18 09:04 AM


I truly like this a lot Joy ! I do ! I do !  
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