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Decaflame
Senior Member

since 2001-05-11

Posts 1635

0 posted 2001-07-25 09:47 AM

                 no pretense

                 slowly unfolding
                 from night’s
                 sleep
                 stretches
                 disentangling limbs

                 a mantle drawn
                 o’er shoulders
                 but
                 no veil o’er
                 countenance

                 confronting all
                 disputes
                 with
                 required
                 grace and poise

                 taking but
                 one day
                 at
                 a time
                 persevering

                 possessing calm
                 stamina to
                 hide
                 the quiet
                 heart’s bleeding

SEA

Moderator

Member Seraphic

since 2000-01-18

Posts 22676
with you

1 posted 2001-07-25 09:53 AM

this is so painful.....I hope you are ok? (((hugs))) just in case....

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

2 posted 2001-07-25 09:55 AM

Ouch....

painful indeed... but well presented

Rick
Member Elite

since 2001-06-21

Posts 2903
Victoria, Australia

3 posted 2001-07-25 10:09 AM

Be well and master peace of mind, accept each day and every kind. Be at one with all around, then a joy in all is found.

Be strong and well. Good write.

Rick

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

4 posted 2001-07-25 10:58 AM

oh, my you have said this well
times like these come in life
hopefully infrequently enough to survive them

Extremely well done!!!

JLR
Senior Member

since 2001-02-04

Posts 1785

5 posted 2001-07-25 01:58 PM

Intense, impressive!

Decaflame
Senior Member

since 2001-05-11

Posts 1635

6 posted 2001-07-25 02:29 PM

SEA, your care is showing, but I am fine, thank you...just a mental poetic exercise...

Cpat Hair - if it hurt, then my exercise was worth every stretch....thank you!....

Rick, a nice poetic response, and it is truly appreciated, kind and thoughtful wisdom...thank you...

VAS, your extremes are welcome, indeed...thank you...

JLR - thank you!

Interloper

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-06

Posts 8369
Deep in the heart

7 posted 2001-07-26 03:57 PM

My heart is breaking. Glad this is just an exercise of your muse

Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart and write. Philip Sidney (1554-1586) Loving in Truth
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Mysteria

Member Laureate

since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

8 posted 2001-07-26 11:38 PM

Just an excellent piece!

~ Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance ~And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance ~ I hope you dance. (Lee Ann Womack)

vlraynes
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-25

Posts 8229
Somewhere... out there...

9 posted 2001-07-26 11:41 PM

Decaflame-
   Wow...VERY impressive exercise indeed!
   Glad to know this is just a case of
   a poet being a poet..
   Excellent!

   hugs,
   ~vicky

"...until you have read the verse on his
heart, you have not truely met the poet."
-vlraynes

RSWells
Member Elite

since 2001-06-17

Posts 2533

10 posted 2001-07-27 10:00 AM

No way to live, no way to rise. I won't go back there myself.

"Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to decieve"

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