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Sven
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0 posted 2000-10-24 08:52 PM


Togetherness is the younger sister of Intimacy
In fact,
it was Togetherness that first introduced me to Intimacy many years ago.

Togetherness and I used to hang out all the time.
We went to the movies,
              the mall,
                  we did everything.

But after I met Intimacy,
I started to stay home a lot.

So, Togetherness found someone else to do things with.

Togetherness could learn a lot from her older sister.

But until that time,
     she'll just keep taking people to the mall
           and telling her sister about it all.

3-21-91

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That which gives light must endure burning
--Victor Frankl


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Poet deVine
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1 posted 2000-10-24 09:37 PM


Hey..this is cool...I like this idea..and you wrote it 9 years ago? Very good.  
Lone Wolf
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2 posted 2000-10-24 09:40 PM


Sven,

Very nice writing my friend.  I have always loved that collection of yours.  

Lone Wolf


Poetry should surprise by fine excess...it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts and appear almost a remembrance. -J.Keats

seraphin
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3 posted 2000-10-24 10:53 PM


I like this! Very, very true! Well put, my friend.
Temptress
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4 posted 2000-10-24 11:03 PM


Interesting work here, Sven. I like it.

Ron K. Fox
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5 posted 2000-10-24 11:07 PM


absolutely clever and cool! loved it! Ron
StarGlow
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6 posted 2000-10-24 11:59 PM


Hi Sven,
  We must be from the same area! I know both the sisters...or, maybe someone just like 'em. Good writing.   Star

Sven
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7 posted 2000-10-25 12:47 PM


deVine, thanks. . . I got the idea from reading "The Book of Qualities" by J. Ruth Gendler.  I don't know if it's still in print.  But in the book, she took qualities like loneliness, anger, love, whimsy and the like and gave them shape and substance.  Made them human. . . I took this idea and changed it a little. . .thought about "What qualities make up love?". . . and this is what came out. . . and yes, it was nine years ago. . . there are more. . .I'll post them. . . I never finished them. . . but I might now. . . thanks!!    

LW, didn't know that I still had those lying around did you??  Thank you    

seraphin. . . thanks. . . glad that you enjoyed. . .

Temptress. . . thank you my friend. . .  

Ron. . .welcome to Passions. . . and thanks for reading!    

StarGlow. . .a welcome to you as well my friend. . . and we just might be. . . it seems that a lot of people know these sisters. . . thank you. . .  

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[This message has been edited by Sven (edited 10-25-2000).]

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