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shadow974
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since 2001-06-21

Posts 636
Michigan

0 posted 2001-08-06 07:08 PM

Agony and Ecstasy

Clowns and roses; baseball bats.
Special times with funny hats.
Sweet and mellow; angry fellow.
Love and hope; hard to cope.
Wise and tall; feeling small.
Great plans; unending demands.
Toy soldiers; getting older.

Ribbons and lace; realities to face.
Jostling joyously; stammering
temperamentally.
Heavenly dreams; tearful extremes.
Giving graciously; grieving grudgingly.
Laughter's joy; lost toy.

Beautiful things; empty it seems.
Wishing well; plans to tell.
Plan ahead; fear is spread.
Raise them well; time will tell.
Floating on high; tell a lie.
Playing house; living like a mouse.
Dreaming all; take the fall.
Living playful games; sadness remains.

Natural splendors; ashes and senders.
Peaceful meadows; answering to my fellows.
Gentle rain; angry refrain.
Birds melody; lions roar.
Flowers blooming; life’s entombing.

Answers to all and all is life.
Answers to all neither black nor white.
Reason and rhyme lasting throughout time.
Dual lives we all must live.
With our minds keeping time.
May one be as large as a mountain
And the other so small it’s hard to find.

Throw your heart out in front of you
And run out to catch it.

rwood
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since 2000-02-29

Posts 3793
Tennessee

1 posted 2001-08-06 07:25 PM

May one be as large as a mountain
And the other so small it’s hard to find. I love this line.
Life is the proverbial two sided coin isn't it. But maybe the worth is the same. The agony helps us realize the ecstacy. I enjoyed this very much!
Sincerely,
Regina

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

2 posted 2001-08-06 07:41 PM

Shadow,
Each one of these lines could be enlarged into a poem. Well done.

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

3 posted 2001-08-06 07:51 PM

A great write, shadow...I really enjoyed the look at opposites. Without one there wouln't be the other...to my thinking.

MARK V SHELDON
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since 2001-06-21

Posts 3015
In a corporeal internship...

4 posted 2001-08-07 09:58 PM

Paradoxes defined...

-MVS

"When you tell the Truth, you never have to remember what you just said."
--Del Casher

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