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Bits and Echoes
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Bits and Echoes |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla 
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Bits and Echoes Flotsams token broken bits…toll the bottom of my wits Grime of old digested chime…making rotten shafts of time. Stir the demons of my goal…threaten structures of my soul. Make my head to bow in shame…neath the showers of to blame. Infringements of youth and play…insidiously display Concavities of old flaunts…into phantom flares that haunt. Baste the barriers conspire…to fields of muck and mire. Slow my feet and mind and wit…into unrewarding grit. Though I fight with lance and shield…bits of flotsam will not yield And winds strike me icy cold…either that or I’m too old. I tire and give way ground…my mind sore of nightly round Weary lays my arm once stout…heavy from a mind of doubt. And though I pray loud and clear…salvation does not appear Nothing stays but night and day…little of a light of way. The crows fly about my head…yet I know that I’m not dead. I curse them their darks declare…but only in wildest stare. Generations fly my sight…generations why and night. And I add my voice to theirs…echoing their dreams and prayers. |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Even in the very dark of it, I still see a ray of light.... |
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Sudhir Iyer Member Ascendant
since 2000-04-26
Posts 6943Mumbai, India : now in Belgium |
A tremendous work, indeed! Regards to you Seymour, my friend Sudhir |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Well you would you are my sunshine. *L* Sudhir, Thank you my friend. |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
I know Sy, and sometimes, I'm an irritating little bugger, aren't I? {~,^} |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
Slow my feet and mind and wit…into unrewarding grit. this will never happen  ================= And winds strike me icy cold…either that or I’m too old. no no no ... whats the rule about old jokes  ==================== I tire and give way ground…my mind sore of nightly round Weary lays my arm once stout…heavy from a mind of doubt. And though I pray loud and clear…salvation does not appear Nothing stays but night and day…little of a light of way. The crows fly about my head…yet I know that I’m not dead. I curse them their darks declare…but only in wildest stare. Generations fly my sight…generations why and night. And I add my voice to theirs…echoing their dreams and prayers. =========================== my goodness me thinks Randy read you some Poe for a bedtime story such a wonderfully melancholy gift of inner rhyme and imagery you have penned for us me sweet. There are so many cool images and phrases in this walk thru your poetic mind excellence from you pen Stinky ... its like second skin for you *winkiewinkie*  meoh you speak to me in riddles |
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Just A Woman Senior Member
since 2001-03-10
Posts 507 |
Sy, this is outstanding. Am saving for many reads. Powerful emotion written only as you could. I almost feel as though I should curtsy to the master! LOL "Often the test of courage is not to die but to live" |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Winkiewinkie, blinkiebkinkie Randy read me Poe's darkthinkie. He is a scoundrel and a tease. With very little if you please. He read me once upon a theory And made ne very very weary. But he sends his love with mine Somewhere right below this line. Love you dearly tinkerbell You toll a very pleasant bell. Stinky |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Just A Women, You may take my hand in friendly bow But curtsy I will not allow. Just A Man |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
I'm glad JM called your bluff on that old stuff... I was gonna have to get out my baseball bat! *G* And that would be a shame to cause you bodily harm after you've penned such somber excellence... this is great! |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Suthern, I can always count on you for a boost. Yes JM won't put up with any of that stuff. But every once in a while I like to get it out of my system. You are a sweet heart and I thank you for the read and sweet comment. *L* |
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