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wordancer
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since 2000-07-30

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VA

0 posted 2002-01-03 06:44 AM

If I had a piano
and knew how to play,
I would while away the night;
to softly tap the keys of my heart.
If I had a harmonica
and knew how to play,
I would inhale slowly to exhale
through the tangled canyons of time.
If I had a guitar
and knew how to play,
I would strum the drawn strings
so tightly fretted across my soul.
If I had a sax
and knew how to play,
I would wail into the long dark
to give vent to the sorrow of day.

Carefully, I unwrap
the dime-store tumblers
and line them up in a row.
As tears stream down my face
I fill them with the water of life;
to carefully tune with a tarnished spoon
in search for that one perfect note
of pure grace.

-Wordancer, the poet who writes to the beat of a different drummer

[This message has been edited by wordancer (01-03-2002 06:45 AM).]

© Copyright 2002 Beverly A. Tift - All Rights Reserved

BloomingRose
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since 2000-08-09

Posts 3092
Florida

1 posted 2002-01-03 10:13 AM

Enjoyed the read.
Grace is sufficient...

Deb

Wikket
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since 2000-01-29

Posts 340
Santa Clara, CA USA

2 posted 2002-01-03 05:01 PM

Wonderful...always a pleasure reading your work! Bravo!!

~~Jamie

"...Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." --Robert Frost

SmittenKitten
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since 2001-06-20

Posts 1131
where the sky and horizon meet

3 posted 2002-01-04 10:39 AM

What a soft and sad tune you've played for us. But so beautifully rendered!

Hugs,
~Krista

Your beautiful words & creativity allow me to connect with the same in myself.
Thank you for having the courage to share yourself so that I can too

wordancer
Senior Member

since 2000-07-30

Posts 809
VA

4 posted 2002-01-04 11:11 AM

Thanks for the replies my friends...this was my last poem for 2001, written on new year's eve...

-wordancer

Irish Rose
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5 posted 2002-01-05 09:21 PM

this is one of the most original poems I've ever read. Thank you.

Kathleen--
Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul.
Only kindness can do that. ~Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire~

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6 posted 2005-12-13 07:29 PM

Merry Christmas sweet friend~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

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