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Cpat Hair
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0 posted 2001-06-29 01:21 PM


Sunset again fades
The crimson colors of day
To sepia and grey…

[You left today]

Glorious colors
Fill the sky's canvas
With  watercolor strokes

[Nothing seems the same]

Heat from the day
Rises in wavering sheets
Replaced by evening cool

[I can only paint the image]

Gloaming … Fall into dark soon…
As night's influence grows
On this landscape

[The feelings have no color]


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1 posted 2001-06-29 01:25 PM


...
for feelings have
bled
along this day
all the crimson
has gone gray
all the blue
has lost sheen,
hue
and all that's left
is very dark...

all that's left
is one heart,
stark

oops.  You started it...not that it needed finishing, but your muse just strummed a note to mine...

thank you for this!

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2 posted 2001-06-29 01:26 PM


you are welcome... your verse is wonderful..and perhaps says what is left unsaid in mine... thank you


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Deep in the heart
3 posted 2001-06-29 01:45 PM


poignantly perfect
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4 posted 2001-06-29 01:47 PM


thanks Interloper... appreciate the comment and youtaking time to read.


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5 posted 2001-06-29 02:09 PM


the picture you've painted feels like a memory from my heart........
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6 posted 2001-06-29 02:12 PM


                "[I can only paint the image]

                Gloaming … Fall into dark soon…
                As night's influence grows
                On this landscape

                [The feelings have no color]"

Very interesting emotions playing through these lines...well done!

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7 posted 2001-06-29 02:20 PM


perfectly poignantly powerful

I'm powerless to say anything profound{er}


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8 posted 2001-06-29 02:30 PM


Ron, this took a couple of reads to begin to sink in, but I love the unique contrasts between the vivid and colorful portrayal of the sunset with the bleak and colorless void felt of abscence.  Great title, too.

-MVS

"If you think you know it all, you have a lot to learn."

"Everyone can hear;  few can listen."

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9 posted 2001-06-29 02:56 PM


Sea... thank you... a very nice reply indeed!

Et.. many thanks for the read and the nice words!

VAS... priceless

Mark.. Thanks for taking the time to read... and to comment. It was a play on the idea of viewing the close of day and how it might be captured to reflect the personal loss suffered. I also hoped it would reflect how theinternal and the external are effected by
each other in some ways...


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10 posted 2001-06-29 11:40 PM


This poem ignited a memory in my heart I had forgotten, and it too was a painting unfinished.  I loved the title of your poem, and once again, first class, thank you.

"Lose your temper and you lose a friend; lie and you lose yourself."
~ Hopi ~

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11 posted 2001-06-30 08:02 AM


Ah, you make me think that feelings have no color and I would argue with you that feelings/emotions are indeed colorful...

or is that just an artist's poetic license to imagine so?

Much food for thought, yet again...

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12 posted 2001-06-30 09:49 AM


I hope you find the colors of the rainbow again one day soon.  Sad write.

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

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13 posted 2001-06-30 11:30 AM


CPatHair~
Graceful strokes of imagery
across a canvas of the heart.

Very nicely done.
~*Marge*~

~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
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