Why the Red Dress Came Off

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Lady In White

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since 2001-02-12

Posts 2799
USA

0 posted 2001-04-20 05:36 PM

Why the Red Dress came Off

it fit the time
the place
the craze
a red velvet dress
around her
graced
the form
the fit
was so complete
the length of it
reached to
her feet

but the stares
and whispers, sure
did not for a
moment occur
to her ears, as
attributes should,
and she stood
glued,
as if hard wood
had suddenly
become her
limbs,
no,
red was not
her color

why had she
listened
what good could
become
of a person
whose heart
was white as
the sun,
of a person
whose soul
was not dark
of despair
and this red
dress,
how was it this
she had
come to wear?

in fear
of jeers
and laughter
unkind
she fled
in dread,
removed
the red

now in white
she is adorned
her countenance
now
never forlorn
she had tried
to be
someone
she was not
and that was a
lesson
she has never
forgot
for one wears
their soul,
it’s true
and when a
light appears
unto you
know that lack
of color
is all right,
especially if
that lack appears
all white.

write with grace, all others lose face;
"Jo was very tall, thin, ... and reminded one of a colt..." LMA

SEA

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Member Seraphic

since 2000-01-18

Posts 22676
with you

1 posted 2001-04-20 05:40 PM

LOVE this

beautifully said

SEA

Interloper

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-06

Posts 8369
Deep in the heart

2 posted 2001-04-20 05:42 PM

You gotta be you ... only you.

Well done. Very well done.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

3 posted 2001-04-20 08:31 PM

Lady...interesting isn't it, how sometimes we try to be someone we're not...you have don it so well with color...much enjoyed!

Balladeer

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since 1999-06-05

Posts 25505
Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA

4 posted 2001-04-20 09:01 PM

The color of the spirit is the only color that matters in the end...

Very nicely said, Lady....

Sven

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since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

5 posted 2001-04-21 01:22 AM

white will always be you. . .

excellent. . .

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To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world.

Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

6 posted 2001-04-21 01:34 AM

If something's right, why change it? Joyce

Wilfred Yeats
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since 2000-08-04

Posts 2704
Wilmington, Delaware

7 posted 2001-04-21 11:32 AM

There's a commercial: "sometimes you feel like a nut, some times you don't..."

I've had a fascination with auras for years now -

"White" - is you -white shall always be you

This is not to say -
you're not entitled to some red moments

Seriously - great poem

Celebi
Junior Member

since 2001-04-20

Posts 17

8 posted 2001-04-21 11:42 AM

Very Very Well Done! I liked you poem a lot it inspired me to be myself and not what other people want me to be.

~Celebi~

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