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CMGrimm
Senior Member
since 2000-02-14
Posts 685
USA

0 posted 2000-07-11 10:09 PM


Smiling
laughing at me
through the window.
Golden locks
framing
her high cheekbones
and tiny nose.
She drives away
slowly waving one hand
out the window to me
behind her....

Christopher M. Grimm
2000



Never be a carbon copy of anybody...make your own impressions. - ANON.



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epoet
Member
since 2000-05-11
Posts 291
grand rapid,MI, usa
1 posted 2000-07-11 10:43 PM


nice short poem about saying goodbye.  question for you to ponder though, why is she waving goodbye did she have to move or are you and her parting ways?


P. J. Kotrch
carpe diem
A soul once touched is a soul once blessed by love


CMGrimm
Senior Member
since 2000-02-14
Posts 685
USA
2 posted 2000-07-12 01:04 PM


Does it matter??

This piece is about a single moment trapped in his memory about a single wave goodbye....don't matter why she left...maybe she was just going down to the beach for a week to relax...or maybe had just come up and visited for a while and was going home...
The worst thing to do is to try and add real life to some of my poems because they are VERY seldom drawn from mine...this piece in particular comes from a picture on the cover of a magazine of a woman pulling away and waving goodbye...  Don't matter why she's leaving, where she's going or when she's coming back (if ever)... fact is she's gone and that's what we are seeing...her leaving.

Thanks for the reply by the way epoet...as you can see...I likes to keep em guessing...

chris

Never be a carbon copy of anybody...make your own impressions. - ANON.



CMGrimm
Senior Member
since 2000-02-14
Posts 685
USA
3 posted 2000-08-07 10:31 PM


hmmm....guess I shoulda had a few more valium that day...sorry epoet for jumpin case like that...very seldom happens with me...musta just been a really bad day...
I realy do appreciate all comments, every single one...and I should never never ever jump to the defensive side...ever...anyway...just wanted to say I was sorry....

chris

Never be a carbon copy of anybody...make your own impressions. - ANON.



dgvarner
Member Elite
since 2000-05-13
Posts 3552
High Springs, Florida
4 posted 2000-08-08 02:07 AM


cm..i'll accept your apology for epoet     wonderful poetry you write..will have to read more!!  just visited your webpage..i love the 3 i read on the first page too   i love your style of writing    cant get enough!  

dg

"Half of what i say is meaningless; but i say it so that the other half may reach you."
-Kahlil Gibran


ethome
Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada
5 posted 2000-08-08 05:00 AM


Lots of pain in this short poetic work. Very well done!!
CMGrimm
Senior Member
since 2000-02-14
Posts 685
USA
6 posted 2000-08-08 07:26 AM


Thanks very much..to both of you.

chris

Never be a carbon copy of anybody...make your own impressions. - ANON.



Holly
Member
since 2000-05-12
Posts 127
Arkansas
7 posted 2000-08-08 07:29 PM


Chris-
RA RA RA! I love this one!! Very touching and heartfelt...as your work always is. I LOVE IT!!
love & hugs,
-Holly


I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
Michel de Montaigne


CMGrimm
Senior Member
since 2000-02-14
Posts 685
USA
8 posted 2000-08-08 07:50 PM


Thanks Holly....my own personal cheerleader...lol

You are always appreciated...

chris

Never be a carbon copy of anybody...make your own impressions. - ANON.



Jamie
Member Elite
since 2000-06-26
Posts 3168
Blue Heaven
9 posted 2000-08-08 10:08 PM


Very nice



Jamie

Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito. - Virgil.
"Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely".



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