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aurora rain
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0 posted 2001-02-07 11:26 PM


“i think i’m in love with a year that never existed”

and time passed with its traumas, how often her dreams could see
a future through its paper-bag eyes and its hazy streetlamp sadness
burning its anger through morning but how long will you remember,
and how soon will you forget the ties which held us, leather and gold
and suede ribbons lapping the sky as the chains undid themselves in
a warm synesthesia when our anger shouted red and i cried.
or if i didn’t know.

and how many times will the sirens sing if i hang my ribbon on the door?
if i purse my lips and proclaim my intolerance in ivory and lavender
and if the petals fall in the dependence of my survival if i had a survival at all
and if halfway down the lane this morning i were to decide i didn’t need predilection
to cloak the hole if i would not know otherwise without you
and if i have already forgotten in the midst of this afternoon, if i have spun
your words around my finger like cloth on a singer or a trail of teacups
with their colors resounding, i think i’m in love with a year that never existed
had it been a year at all, and if i promise not to remember i wonder
how soon you will forget.


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"and if i promise not to remember i wonder
how soon you will forget."


I know just how this feels..........absolutely wonderful write   -SEA

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2 posted 2001-02-08 01:08 AM


I love the flow and feel of this.  I don't fully understand its intracacies, but I feel it has a melancholy, a longing for someone and a lost relationship.  It is so well done, I don't think a full explanation is necessary.

Maybe it's like the absolute beauty of someone sitting with another, in their sorrow, and weeping with them though neither speaks, full sensation of the pain and caring abounds in their comaraderie.  Well done!!!

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3 posted 2001-02-08 07:16 AM


AuroraRain~
I enjoy the way you work your phrases.
Very, very thought provoking ...
nicely done.
~*Marge*~


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4 posted 2001-02-08 10:03 AM


Wonderful, Robin......Have missed your poetry!  

To capture and live a moment is truly living


aurora rain
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5 posted 2001-02-08 07:25 PM


thank you.

and my name is not robin, if that is what you meant.  

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