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1slick_lady
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standing on a shadow's lace

0 posted 2001-04-14 01:58 AM


With words

with words again
I am reborn
they mold and shape
then take their form

they sing a song
that's truly me
struggling now
to be set free

I hold them back
against their will
close my eyes
they fill me still

I hold the paper
at my side
words jump right out
together we ride

it goes one way
then another
precisely like
a selfish lover

I now let the words
have their way
just hold the pen
the ink will obey

with ink and paper
words ignite
consumed in the flames
I write


"...the rest is silence" (Hamlet)       Shakespeare


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Sven
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1 posted 2001-04-14 02:07 AM


the spirit speaks
the words come
and we write. . .

excellent helen. . .

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Irish Rose
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2 posted 2001-04-14 03:36 AM


Yes, I have felt this way, words, they are sometimes the last weapon we have, may we always use them only in kindness and love.

Kathleen Blake

"When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass,
and the sun drips honey."
Laurie Lee


helen smith
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3 posted 2001-04-14 03:58 AM


riderless horses ;  unbridled   tongues  these words.....  and how I hate  to suffer a bit between my teeth
kitkat
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4 posted 2001-04-14 08:50 AM


With pen and paper we write, setting our spirits free. May the soar to new heights.
Nice poem :-)

bslicker
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5 posted 2001-04-14 02:04 PM


I like the way you put on this piece, with ink and paper, since i caught a glance at the orginal and it was done on paper before you typed it up on the computer. Just think all this money i have invested in computer equipment.. i still have to go by ink pens and paper...lol

Nice write about writing, it could be a poem, it could be short story, it could be words on paper about anything...    
Nicely done

Bernie

A smile a day keeps the world in  's.

Bernie Slicker

Bill Charles
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6 posted 2001-04-14 03:14 PM


1slick_lady - and what you write is very touching. Keep the words coming, I'll keep reading. A wonderful writing.

BC

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7 posted 2001-04-14 06:41 PM


Beautiful write Helen. Sometimes what we write helps us to anylize things more easily and through this we make things more clear.
Well done
Rich

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