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Lady In White

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since 2001-02-12

Posts 2799
USA

0 posted 2001-05-25 11:51 AM

touching inward

time to let it all
come forth, this touching
inward

too long the walls
have stood between the
feel
and the real

too often put aside
the deepest part
of this emotion’s flow

let it go…

let it go….

this, this is the moment, then
to let the memories
begin to mend

to let the sorrows pour
forth in rain

to quench the soils
where blood was lain

and although left in weakened state
leave open these, thy flooding gates
allow thy pain to surface in full
allow this inward touching pull

and in memory, touch the stone
and in touching inward
we shall go on

in memoriam

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

[This message has been edited by Sunshine (edited 05-25-2001).]

angelswing
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since 2000-02-10

Posts 705
United Kingdom

1 posted 2001-05-25 11:56 AM

Wonderful poem, you have a very good structure, it is different to many poems which is what makes it work . I enjoyed the subject content .
Thanks .
L.of.L. Tommy .
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Seymour Tabin
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Tamarac Fla

2 posted 2001-05-25 12:21 PM

Lady,
Wonderful write, enoyed the read very much. *L*

Interloper

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since 2000-11-06

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Deep in the heart

3 posted 2001-05-25 12:31 PM

Looks like the raising of the flag over Mt. Suribachi ... always gives me chills ... my dad was there.

If by "touching the stone" you mean the Vietnam memorial, I haven't yet summoned the intestinal fortitude to "touch" my buddies' names. One day ...

Well written and a big THANK YOU.

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

RMW
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since 2001-03-21

Posts 1424

4 posted 2001-05-25 12:56 PM

Lady In White ...... Thank you for sharing this. It touches so many times and places...thoughts and feelings. Thank you. Bob

inot2B
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Arkansas

5 posted 2001-05-25 12:58 PM

So many names, upon the walls.

brian madden
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ireland

6 posted 2001-05-25 02:44 PM

and although left in weakened state
leave open these, thy flooding gates
allow thy pain to surface in full
allow this inward touching pull

and in memory, touch the stone
and in touching inward
we shall go on

WOW powerful writing.

"across the unfair divide
where black will never meet white
so read my token lips
as though they never exist"

nicky wire

Auguste

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By the sea

7 posted 2001-05-25 03:31 PM

Lady In White,

We owe a great deal of gratitude to the veterans of this country. Most did not come from well to do famililes, but were the poorest of the poor and uneducated. For many, their only hope for a better future was to enlist. So many never had a future. I loudly applaud each of them. Thank you for this.

Michael

Proust-
"Love is space and time measured by the heart"

Martie

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8 posted 2001-05-25 05:17 PM

Well chosen words, Lady, for something that holds a catch in the voice, you speak strong and true.

Irish Rose
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9 posted 2001-05-25 07:54 PM

This is wonderful in structure and graphic

Sven

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10 posted 2001-05-25 09:01 PM

a superb idea. . . passionately written, and thoughtfully done. . .

excellent. . .

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Mysteria

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since 2001-03-07

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British Columbia, Canada

11 posted 2001-05-26 05:51 AM

I have met so many Americans now through the computer and a lot are Vietnam veterans. They still choke up as they speak, and still can not "touch the stone", and every new story makes a deeper hole in my heart for all who fought, as the nightmares, it seems, never leave them. It is a wonderful thing you do by honoring all those that fought for freedom!

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ethome
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New Brunswick Canada

12 posted 2001-05-27 06:30 AM

Lady this is a wonderful write and I enjoyed the read so much!

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