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Christopher

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-02

Posts 8296
Purgatorial Incarceration

0 posted 2000-09-18 07:02 AM

From Here to Distance
©2000 Christopher Ward

a chase~
the chase

from then to now

a game~
our game

    first to fall
you smile
   I frown
you cry
   I smile

and again
begin-

én motion cir-cular
  we float through
      ringless trees
   ‘cross dreamless
  delusionings,
kissing foreign
foliage
   all...
     the...
        while...
    dancing gaily
on that distant
horizon's
    edge

teetering
  on the balance
       a-pointed pin
  pin-pointed
on a star map
    that there,

we,
       us
a sigh across
infinity

   we meet
   we burn
   we love
         then die

-orgasmic explosion-

   the only remnants,
          words
    empty; cold
     warm; heartening
       deceased

   and meaningless now
only arms have the power
     to defeat
   the empty-cold
         ...of space

Elizabeth Santos
Member Rara Avis

since 1999-11-08

Posts 9269
Pennsylvania

1 posted 2000-09-18 07:08 AM

You encircle the infinite distance, define the invisible, measure the vastness of a hug.
You do the impossible
I was so happy to see your name this morning. I knew it would bring a smile to my face.
Liz

Sunshine

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

2 posted 2000-09-18 08:07 AM

orgasmic explosion...

of space...

vivid imagery...

well done!

hoot_owl_rn
Member Patricius

since 1999-07-05

Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA

3 posted 2000-09-18 09:03 AM

Whew...powerful stuff here my friend. It's nice to be reading you

serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

4 posted 2000-09-18 09:19 AM

Now I smile. Thanks Chris.

Irish Rose
Member Patricius

since 2000-04-06

Posts 10263

5 posted 2000-09-19 07:29 AM

This is really wonderful. Good to see you (I mean read) such imagination.
How do you do it?

Kathleen

Poet deVine

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-26

Posts 22612
Hurricane Alley

6 posted 2000-09-19 09:48 AM

I see the dance
of this
romance

Excellent poem! But you knew that!

Gemini
Senior Member

since 1999-12-15

Posts 1203
Wisconsin, USA

7 posted 2000-09-19 01:26 PM

Christopher-Never appreciated the vast power of a hug until I read your piece, very wonderfully done.

brian madden
Member Elite

since 2000-05-06

Posts 4374
ireland

8 posted 2000-09-19 01:44 PM

Chris, wow wonderful poem...
distances I know that word well at times

The softest thing in the world Will overcome the hardest.Non-being can enter where there is no space". Taoist saying

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