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Echo Rhayne
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since 1999-09-17
Posts 1495
Canyon Country, CA

0 posted 2000-05-01 01:38 AM


I'll never write another poem
that's a promise I make tonight
Please do not try and argue with me
'cause I feel it is what's right!

Not a single word that's in my mind
will reach my hand again.
I shall not write what's in my heart
of life, love, death, nor sin!

I shall not write to vent my hurt
or frustrations of the day.
No more poems of things I've learned
or poems just to say HEY!

I locked my heart behind a wall
and threw away my pen.
The inspiration need not come
because I'll never write again!

Now take this poem, it is my last
and read it one more time.
Now leave this page and don't come back
and forget that it was mine!



 I'm not waving, I'm drowning!



© Copyright 2000 Echo Rhayne - All Rights Reserved
serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738

1 posted 2000-05-01 03:01 AM


Echo--I forget who said it--forgive me--but whoever it was said---"if you can NOT write--don't..."    This too shall pass...Not an argument, but a prediction...
Rex Allen McCoy
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since 2000-01-30
Posts 2863
Sippin a Timmy's in London
2 posted 2000-05-01 03:16 AM


I feel like this most every night
why should I endure the fight
A losing battle
in my mind
No friend that cares enough to find
... my dignity ...
who cares if I don't ?

devina
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since 1999-10-28
Posts 3539
Cali
3 posted 2000-05-01 11:22 AM


Let me say that I hope this is just a venting poem Mel...we'd hate to lose you hun!!! Especially when we just get you back girl!!! Here's a hug if you're in need!!!

((((((HUG))))))

Take care!!
~D


 Open arms can be the most fragile in the world...


Denise
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since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648

4 posted 2000-05-01 11:38 AM


Well, you can deprive me of any future poems, if that is your desire, but you can't make me forget.....oh, no,no,no....and I can click on this one anytime I want to...hehehe....but seriously, don't give up writing, you are so good at it. I've also found that it is the best outlet for emotional turmoil, at least for me it is. So please reconsider!

Denise

DiObear
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since 2000-04-30
Posts 66
Switzerland
5 posted 2000-05-01 01:01 PM


This is the only poem I have read of yours so far.  It leaves me wondering what forced this decision.  I hope it really isn't your last.  But if it is, it's a great one to end with.

Now that I've seen your writing, I'll have to go and search through the ones that you've posted before.

Good Luck, whatever you decide.

DiObear


 

Corazon
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since 2000-02-02
Posts 1209

6 posted 2000-05-01 01:11 PM


I must say I do not understand it, nor the emotion behind it, or should I say I have never been where you are...once I found writing could cleanse my soul, I would never give it up....there are times when I am without words...and there are times when my words are inadequate, but it is a gift given to me, to help me cope....and I do say thank you for it....with or without writing....I hope you find your way to cope too...
WhtDove
Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-22
Posts 9245
Illinois
7 posted 2000-05-01 04:06 PM


And why would this be? I hope you don't quit writing, because I've told you many times you have such a gift for it! Along with your drawing...and I'm stickin to it
Poet deVine
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since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612
Hurricane Alley
8 posted 2000-05-01 09:10 PM


This is one of your best...see if it wasn't the last one, you would have more just like it...I know from experience you can't stop writing... you've got poetry in your soul...
A.C.Turner
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since 2000-04-30
Posts 83
Reading, Pa.Home of Bardfest
9 posted 2000-05-01 09:41 PM


I hope this isn't your last poem. It's the first one I've read of yours and I like it a lot. Peace to you. ACT.
Echo Rhayne
Senior Member
since 1999-09-17
Posts 1495
Canyon Country, CA
10 posted 2000-05-02 03:25 AM


Thanks serenity and Rex

Devina...Not just a venting poem, sorry.  Im not writing anymore poetry.  Reasons yet to be told to anyone!

Now Denise, give me a little more credit please...cause as far as depriving you from further poetry, I can also deprive you of this one as well by deleting its contents!  Didn't think of that did you? As far as me being 'good' at writing, I have to STRONGLY disagree with you there!  Reconsider?  Me?  Sorry!

Thanks Dio & Corazon

Rebecca...Gift for writing?  NO!  Drawing, maybe!

PdV...Well, we'll see, but I believe that I can and WILL quit writing!

Thanks ACT but it is!



 I'm not waving, I'm drowning!



Ethan Halo
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since 2000-04-28
Posts 793
on the roof again
11 posted 2000-05-02 03:42 AM


"Apoem is not an idea. it's an experiance. a carefully shaped experiance when the reader (an sometimes the author) discover things about life and themselves"

Don't give back a gift. You can leave it in the closet for a while. But don't give up on it all the way.


 We all got somethin' we need to atone for.


Sven
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since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA
12 posted 2000-05-04 10:48 PM


Echo, this is your decision. . . I can't say that I agree with it, but I will not tell you how to do things. . . but know that once you've begun down that road, there may be no turning back. . .

You will pick up the pen again one day Melanie. . . mabye not for a long time, but a day will come that the only way to express yourself will be with that pen. . . and on that day, you will save your life. . .

deVine is right. . . it's in your soul. . .you can run. . . but you can't hide. . .

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 That which gives light must endure burning
--Victor Frankl


Tia
Junior Member
since 2000-05-05
Posts 41
massachusetts
13 posted 2000-05-05 11:35 PM


this is the first poem i've ever read of yours..it is good.never giveup writing. i did once and it didn't do any good. my emotions were crammed up inside...keep writing...

Tia

 I'd rather have someone hate me for who i am,than to have someone like me for who i'm pretending to be

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