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1slick_lady
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standing on a shadow's lace

0 posted 2001-02-03 07:18 PM


Now I write


things run through my head
words that should and shouldn't be said
as I sleep where dreams can't go
words and words and words still flow

damn this lost separation of night and day
grabs my emotions, I start to fray
yielding now, to win or lose this fight
I pick up the pen and again I write

pour out my soul on white blank pages
come to terms with myself, small stages
within bitter darkness I become a sleuth
I now face myself, staring out at truth


© Copyright 2001 Helen Chambers - All Rights Reserved
Irish Rose
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1 posted 2001-02-03 07:20 PM


How I identified with every single word of this!!!!!!!

"I walked beside the evening sea and dreamed a dream that could not be." George William Curtis



Temptress
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2 posted 2001-02-03 07:51 PM


What you say in the end of this is the hardest thing to do. To face the truth about one's self. Effective writing, Lady! I love it!

"This above all-ask yourself in the stillest hour of your night:MUST I write? Delve into yourself for a deep answer.

Rainer Maria Rilke
from "Le

spiked
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3 posted 2001-02-04 01:22 AM


The therapudic effects of writing, helps us realize what we already know just have told ourselves.
Nice write Helen
Rich

Snow
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desert flower looking for rain
4 posted 2001-02-04 01:29 AM


well done! very much enjoyed this.

snow

jonmcm
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5 posted 2001-02-05 01:56 PM


Writing is powerful and theraputic, it's helped me alot; and when you look back at what you have written, sometimes it is as though

"I now face myself, staring out at truth"


Jon

Jill
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6 posted 2001-02-05 02:02 PM


Very Nice.
Sven
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7 posted 2001-02-05 06:53 PM


indeed, the hardest person to be honest with. . . is us. . .  

excellent helen. . .

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To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world.

JLR
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8 posted 2001-02-05 07:04 PM


Brutally honest.  Maybe someday I'll have the courage to grow up and be you.  Hit home hard!
jwesley
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9 posted 2001-02-05 07:08 PM


Love the flow of this. Just seem to move automatically from one line to the next.  Well done.

jwesley

Lone Wolf
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10 posted 2001-02-05 07:22 PM


You have said a ton here.  In the end, we all have to face ourselves and come to terms with who we are.  Well done.  

LW


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

Honeybee
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11 posted 2001-02-05 08:09 PM




Wow! Well penned, great flow and rhyme, and I do relate.  The truth isn't always kind, but most often it is necessary for the soul, even if it paints a dark picture~

Take care,
Melissa~

kcsgrandma
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12 posted 2001-02-06 12:39 PM


This is a thoughtful and courageous composition.   I often think I write to let others see me, but you are undoubtedly right that it is a good way to see ourselves.  I love it when you people make me think!  

To love another person is to see the face of God.
- Les Miserables

Marilyn

Krawdad
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13 posted 2001-02-06 02:38 AM


Oh, the sweet curse of it!!!
1slick_lady
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standing on a shadow's lace
14 posted 2001-02-07 02:35 AM


I am so glad you all liked this.....helen
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