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Purity
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Once Upon, USA

0 posted 2002-06-24 12:58 PM


Time's will is strong from infinite years of detachment
that shatter the greatest of earthly realm's dreamers.
I find it a less-than-worthy-of-bereavement fatality;
new day's sun casts light on empty spots of futile
gestures offered to previous night's moon to discard
with justifications of passing-by life. Hue of dark colors
are forever coaxed from trees getting in the forest's way.
Paradox multiplied when kittens & pups forget playtoys
once removed from sight & elsewhere, simultaneously,
humans then beg the blue moon to return the throwouts
not missed in view. Deep & deeper in blah-blahs of
meaningless everyday rituals branching out to more time
consuming ruts; Stop! Even if only briefly, catch a glimpse
of the beauty of eyelids meeting in closure. As you calmly
fill lungs to capacity, will the cells of oxygen into doorways
of once-was & remember not to forget. The dominance of
time can come unto defeat by being more conscious of the
conscious need to ignore it. Then you shall see, as I have,
it's all still here...



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News_From_Nowhere
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1 posted 2002-06-24 04:04 PM


Unique wording, Purity. Captured my interest from the first line. Indeed, time can buff us about, and become an enemy when things desired are "out of sight/out of mind". Wow, intensely deep, yet flows well!
wranx
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2 posted 2002-06-24 09:30 PM


At first, I thought this was awkward, then, caught a cool cadence that knitted it all together. Slowing at "Stop!" and slower yet until "then you shall see, as I have."
"It's"
"all"
"still"
"there".

Cool read

~wranx

"Writing is a perfectly natural thing to do....just remember to wash your hands afterward"....Heinlein.

bsquirrel
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3 posted 2002-06-24 11:21 PM


A thick yet strangely readable stream of consciousness (or some state thereof). Cool, I used "thereof."

These smiling eyes are just a mirror for the sun.
-RHCP

Purity
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Once Upon, USA
4 posted 2002-06-25 03:48 AM


Wranx, you rule...Thanks for the "neatest" of acknowledgements...from you, that was too cool...bsquirrel, most "the 'preciate'"... I was hoping to illicit a response from you as most of your works are even more maskedly deeper than this attempt. Thanks!
Purity
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Once Upon, USA
5 posted 2002-06-25 04:25 AM


Sorry to double respond, but News...the "out of sight/out of mind" is the whole premise of the poem. If time is such a "friend", then the one you so care about, when they go out and live their own life and do their own things devoid of you ("out of sight..."), would still in the smallest of thought spaces remember you, miss you, and will you to be..."even still". Thanks for catching on to this theme in and amist all the over verbage. (Hiding my feelings, once again)
bsquirrel
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6 posted 2002-06-25 07:05 PM


Nothin' wrong with double responding. But there is something wrong with me "bump"ing you to th' top again. Pay me. j/k

Mike

These smiling eyes are just a mirror for the sun.
-RHCP

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