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Snow
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desert flower looking for rain

0 posted 2001-02-16 01:02 AM



Temporary Soothing

breasts pressed to
cool porcelain
while the steam creates
curls that cling to
the small of my back

no one hears me
release the pain
in here ... no one can
see the past wash down
the drain like I do

and it's all right ...
right now, to be alone
at this moment,
this time ... while I
look at my arms
and see, with my
minds eye

where his fingers
carved a path ...
and the water
slowly falling over
the curves ...
now warm



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Sunshine
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Listening to every heart
1 posted 2001-02-16 10:31 AM


Warm....steamy....I knew there was a reason for a good shower!
VAS
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since 2000-11-16
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2 posted 2001-02-17 01:10 AM


Oh, the meaning of this could definitely go two ways. That adds to its intrigue. I feel anguish for the teller. One way it leads is out of an act of violence and the other way is totally out of sorrow of something ending. Both are filled with pain. Yet, the 'something ending' would really be the lesser of two evils.
ethome
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since 2000-05-14
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New Brunswick Canada
3 posted 2001-02-17 01:51 AM


Very well written evocative write...I emjoyed it so much!

The poet is like a cocoon; in him the caterpillar of the past finds rest, and from him the butterfly of the future emerges.

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