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Tara Simms
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since 1999-08-12
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Honea Path, SC USA

0 posted 2000-05-02 12:11 PM


I am

I am wild and untamed
I wonder why I am this way
I hear the roar of the crowd
I see my adoring fans
I want to set the world on fire
I am wild and untamed.

I pretend I’m stronger than I am
I feel my artificial walls crumble
I touch the tender carcass of my soul
I worry that I’ll never love again
I cry for my lost childhood
I am wild and untamed.

I understand that life is what you make of it
I say I can do anything
I dream of falling in love again
I try to embrace life with arms wide open
I hope to live life with no regrets
I am wild and untamed.


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Poet deVine
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Hurricane Alley
1 posted 2000-05-02 12:59 PM


Tara, this is wonderful! It is you! Nice to meet this side of you after all this time....  
Alicat
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since 1999-05-23
Posts 4094
Coastal Texas
2 posted 2000-05-02 01:06 AM


Tara, this is a beautiful reply to this challenge...thank you for letting me know a bit more about you.


Alicat

Janet Marie
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since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554

3 posted 2000-05-02 07:58 AM


tara...
you did a great job with this...
lots to learn about you...which was the fun
of this challenge...
I like the way you questioned things in your life...and your hope of things to come shined in it.
very nice work!!

 ~as always, Take Care,JM~
--------------
I know it's been a long road
To get these towns behind me and I
Will gladly reap what we may sow--
I am there for you ...
and you're there for me ...
Are you waiting for
Heart in hand
Woman and man
See me where I stand I am
Heart
Heart in hand
~vertical horizon~


Corazon
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since 2000-02-02
Posts 1209

4 posted 2000-05-02 09:47 AM


this is beautiful....sigh....I coudl almost say you wrote this about me, but the wild and untamed....hmmmmm....makes me think....guess you are wild and untamed even if you are caged.....great writing tara  
Sven
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Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA
5 posted 2000-05-02 08:22 PM


Tara,
     this is really wonderful!!  You have met the challenge with excellent results!!

Wonderful poem!!

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 That which gives light must endure burning
--Victor Frankl


netswan
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since 2000-03-28
Posts 1369
Washington
6 posted 2000-05-02 08:35 PM


Hi There Tara -- Simply Perfect.
Well done.   So great to meet you.

netswan

Tara Simms
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since 1999-08-12
Posts 1244
Honea Path, SC USA
7 posted 2000-05-02 10:23 PM


Thanks everyone!  I thought this challenge was going to be easy to do, but it took a lot longer than I thought to get it "right".  My original attempt was to do it without revealing so much of myself.  I soon discovered that was impossible!  

Nice to meet all of you!


 It matters not how strait the gate;
How charged with punishments the scroll;
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
--W.E. Henley



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