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aurora rain
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since 2000-11-15

Posts 90

0 posted 2001-02-10 02:34 PM

your heart is sprawled upon the chair
in its abeyance this evening, in its cessation
to float to alone if its seclusion is only half-spent tonight
and if i am not worth the nickels and dimes spent on your call to arms
if i am unable to heighten your experience to the extent that you’re wishing
you were somewhere else tonight,
i don’t know why i’ll still hold steadfast to that sail

and if you could look at us now. look at us now—
a box with a glassy black frame and its roof of canvas
plateau’d over the center of the universe, its edges steep
and a haven below, its sky metallic and its voices soft and its
paper letters hanging by a caution of the wind i do not wish
to refrain from holding onto

and why i’m still holding on i do not know,
perhaps it is the promise of a new day or if i need
my heartstrings stretched to ache, then this will work them out
if i’m accustomed to pain for the longest time only to have it taken
from me and to long for its fulfillment, its need
and then to reshape itself into accepting beautiful
then this will work them out

but if i need the perspective from another angle today
the causation for return, arrival, departure
and if i decide i need more today, more when i’m nothing
to something so far from my reach
if i need to hold on today and i cannot
if i need to stretch to ache today
then this will work them out
and i’ll let go. i’ll have to let go.

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

1 posted 2001-02-10 09:50 PM

I think I shall come back to read this again....because I believe in the morning light, I will get yet again a different perspective....thank you...

Janet Marie
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since 2000-01-22

Posts 18554

2 posted 2001-02-11 01:38 PM

your heart is sprawled upon the chair
in its abeyance this evening, in its cessation
to float to alone if its seclusion is only half-spent tonight
and if i am not worth the nickels and dimes spent on your call to arms
if i am unable to heighten your experience to the extent that you’re wishing
you were somewhere else tonight,
i don’t know why i’ll still hold steadfast to that sail

and if you could look at us now. look at us now—
a box with a glassy black frame and its roof of canvas
plateau’d over the center of the universe, its edges steep
and a haven below, its sky metallic and its voices soft and its
paper letters hanging by a caution of the wind i do not wish
to refrain from holding onto

and why i’m still holding on i do not know,
perhaps it is the promise of a new day or if i need
my heartstrings stretched to ache, then this will work them out
if i’m accustomed to pain for the longest time only to have it taken
from me and to long for its fulfillment, its need
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this is outstanding writing
the vocabulary choices ... the imagery... and the sheer evoke of the emotions.
excellent in its depth of expression
very very well done... a very cool poem
and yes...like Sun...one that I will read again to absorb and enjoy.

Where the touch of the lover ends
And the soul of the friend begins
There's a need to be separate and a need to be one
And a struggle neither wins

aurora rain
Member

since 2000-11-15

Posts 90

3 posted 2001-02-11 06:26 PM

thanks.

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