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bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

0 posted 2003-08-06 06:41 PM

Snow, bury me.
I never want to breathe again.
Such fine words seem so cruel in youth.
Now they are but fanciful.

Would I see Death's face.
Would She smile through sad eyes?
How silly, sentimental,
held by cold, blank light.

A poet's preferred end --
swallowing page after page
after page after page after page
after page after page after page after
page.

Reading dawn to sleep,
trembling. What's more,
a bed of frost to hold your bones.
A bed of frost would kill the moss.

That brings me to another page.
Lichen frozen on a tree.
A thousand photographs of ice
etched in still-framed life.

I never want to know.
These words but huddle in their fall.
Sweep the leaves from daylight's sweep.
Snow, bury me.

Janet Marie
Member Laureate

since 2000-01-22

Posts 18554

1 posted 2003-08-06 08:54 PM

Reading dawn to sleep,
trembling. What's more,
a bed of frost to hold your bones.
A bed of frost would kill the moss.

That brings me to another page.
Lichen frozen on a tree.
A thousand photographs of ice
etched in still-framed life.

I never want to know.
These words but huddle in their fall.
Sweep the leaves from daylight's sweep.
Snow, bury me.
=========================

I would choose an avalanche of your words

I LOVE this write of white, night and poetic plight.
YOU rock.. and it rolls me

"How could I stand here with you and not be moved by you."

LH

[This message has been edited by Janet Marie (08-06-2003 08:55 PM).]

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

2 posted 2003-08-06 09:24 PM

Dang dang dang...
JM beat me to exactly what I wanted
to say - perhaps not in her words,
but doggone it all...

they're close.

Thanks, Mike!

brian sites
Senior Member

since 2002-06-25

Posts 1475
usa

3 posted 2003-08-07 10:41 PM

I'm just shaking my head here

unbelievable

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

4 posted 2003-08-08 02:05 PM

Thanks.

Local Parasite

Member Elite

since 2001-11-05

Posts 2527
Transylconia, Winnipeg

5 posted 2003-08-09 03:16 PM

It's not nice to think that we'll someday be forgotten. The neat thing about snow, though... is that it melts...

Nothing wrong with a little snow, Mister BlackSquirrel...

Parasite

Faith is a fine invention
When gentlemen can see
But microscopes are prudent
In an emergency.
~~~Emily Dickinson

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

6 posted 2003-08-09 07:55 PM

Snow for me is a shorthand symbol for death. Not necessarily physical death, though.

Marshalzu

Member Elite

since 2001-02-15

Posts 2681
Lurking

7 posted 2003-08-10 06:26 PM

Beautifully written

Andy

gemjop
Member Elite

since 2002-11-18

Posts 2587
Pencilveinia, USA

8 posted 2003-08-10 09:20 PM

ahhhh. keeping yet another of yours.

thankyou. xx

Instant karma's gonna get you.

wranx
Member Elite

since 2002-06-07

Posts 3689
Moved from a shack to a barn

9 posted 2003-08-10 10:42 PM

"I never want to know.
These words but huddle in their fall.
Sweep the leaves from daylight's sweep.
Snow, bury me."

Mikey, there is such stark beauty in your words, one is often left blinking back the images.

You rock? yes

Ed

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