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1slick_lady
Member Ascendant

since 2000-12-22

Posts 6088
standing on a shadow's lace

0 posted 2001-06-04 03:45 PM

Hurt’s Tattoo

sometimes
it hurts
beneath
your skin
you want it
to go away
wish it
would end
try to wash
it away
in your tears
still embedded
the design
is clear
it is the color
of despair
unwanted tattoo
that you wear
in time
shall lighten
it’s tint change
just a part of life
rearranged

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

serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

1 posted 2001-06-04 04:12 PM

Helen, I liked this. Reminded me of a discussion once (think I wrote something about too, but never too sure) about the biology of pain. We learn to retreat our fingers from the scorch of the flame, and the body remembers, so that self-preservation becomes instinct, and further evidence shows that psychological pain carries the same biological response. (re: Pavlov's Dog) So thanks for the re-think, you've gone deep with this one!

JLR
Senior Member

since 2001-02-04

Posts 1785

2 posted 2001-06-05 12:54 PM

Rearrangement...long overdue. This goes deeper each time I read it!

Krawdad
Member Elite

since 2001-01-03

Posts 2597

3 posted 2001-06-05 12:59 PM

before they turn all ugly black

the many colors of despair

yet may, with hope, anew come back

a rainbow, after tear washed air

[This message has been edited by Krawdad (edited 06-05-2001).]

kansas-jim
Junior Member

since 2001-06-05

Posts 22
Willits,Ca

4 posted 2001-06-05 09:09 PM

I do love your work.

Saunni
Senior Member

since 2000-07-11

Posts 1777
West Virginia

5 posted 2001-06-05 11:23 PM

I so know what you mean, My Friend... what a fantastic write.

Sauni

Sauni :)
Have you ever known the color grey when the nighttime finds you weak
I have, I've walked that road each time; that's where my angel sleeps

Lone Wolf
Member Ascendant

since 2000-03-16

Posts 5842
Lansing, MI USA

6 posted 2001-06-05 11:28 PM

There is so much truth in this! Very well said.

All writing comes
by the grace of God.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sven

Member Laureate

since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

7 posted 2001-06-06 08:05 PM

you always have a unique way of looking at the world. . .

that's why your writing is so excellent. . .

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

Tovi
Member

since 2001-06-05

Posts 168

8 posted 2001-06-06 08:57 PM

So very very true. Nicely done.

Irish Rose
Member Patricius

since 2000-04-06

Posts 10263

9 posted 2001-06-06 10:25 PM

words I can relate too, Helen, thank you.

Kathleen Blake

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

Deafheaven
Junior Member

since 2001-06-02

Posts 23
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

10 posted 2001-06-06 10:28 PM

pretty slick, lady

The pain I have felt is material to the journal of my life
And I have scrawled many an erroneous line upon its yellowed pages
-Deafheaven

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