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1slick_lady
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standing on a shadow's lace

0 posted 2001-06-10 12:58 PM


  
  Pearls of Night


driving
through the night
string
pearled headlights
press
against blackness
my necklace
breaks apart
as they
aproach

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


© Copyright 2001 Helen Chambers - All Rights Reserved
JLR
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1 posted 2001-06-10 01:05 AM


I could actually see this...very cool!  Though I hope the precious ones are still safely around your neck.
Logan
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2 posted 2001-06-10 01:07 AM


Yes, the dreamstate of driving, Brings to mind other times, other places..very nicely done,,thank you...gentle smile
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3 posted 2001-06-10 01:13 AM


I loved the visual of this...and how you tied in the symbolism. Abstract, yet generally accessible. A nice melding ot the two---I liked very much!  
DonFurr
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4 posted 2001-06-10 12:36 PM


Visualization so intense and flowing.
You need not close your eyes to see.
Memories and anticipation become as one.
Thank you Dear lady for an excellent read.

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5 posted 2001-06-10 01:18 PM


OneSlickLady~
Just too cool is the imagery here !
WONDERFUL !
~*Marge*~

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Poeminister
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6 posted 2001-06-10 01:57 PM


I agree with all above...wonderful image and idea...nicely done.

Poeminister

Irish Rose
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7 posted 2001-06-10 02:03 PM


love the way you described those headlights.....

Kathleen Blake

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

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Honeybee
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8 posted 2001-06-10 02:08 PM



A very clever use of two themes intertwined!

Take care,
Melissa~

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9 posted 2001-06-10 06:34 PM


I'm not sure what to make of this helen. . . it seems that the two are meeting head on. . . almost like a crash course. . .

it's just full of total symbolism. . . that's what I like about it. . .

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ethome
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10 posted 2001-06-10 06:42 PM


Good poem!  Very enjoyable read!

The role of poetry is to utter the un-utterable; to open up
spaces of consciousness and resistance; to language oppressions; to
re-language historie

g-hm
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11 posted 2001-06-11 12:12 PM


I've seen those pearls too.
theLadypoet
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12 posted 2001-06-11 12:21 PM


Sweet as summer raspberries and full of energy in a soft, quiet manner. Symbolism
galore. Good read.

theLadypoet

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