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bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

0 posted 2003-09-12 03:43 PM

I'm tangled in webs of missleep.
How many words jangle like keys
and coins in old pockets of memory?
How many touches taste turned, tainted
in the blister of midnight to three?
How many phone calls breaking streams
leave us deposited on the moon?

I'm looking out the window
at you
now.

You sit,
a satisfied coin,
a glowing silver key,
a ring against the sky.

I want to take you in,
shelter you in black felt,
cry against the knowledge
of your keeping.

The pillow offers no comfort.
The sheets no satisfaction.
I want to walk you to the sea.
I want to wade home through our image.

Fragments of light breaking and bursting
with each step.

Kaoru

Member Elite

since 2003-06-07

Posts 3892
where the wild flowers grow

1 posted 2003-09-12 05:25 PM

I'd go ahead..
but usually slow motion
and backwards
seems to make me rest easier.

Starting the alphabet with Z,
Y, and so on..
slowly trying to remember the
complete opposite of what
you've been taught..

But cupping your hand over your ear,
and hearing the ocean..

that's a wonderful thing... it's inside of you.

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

2 posted 2003-09-12 05:38 PM

You must promise
to watch for the breakers,
how they slide
as though escaping

some black seascape
further out.
You must promise
to watch the moon.

She bleeds her light
upon the water,
the edge of the coast,
the end to the stars.

If I only knew
the letters
to form, unplanned,
in my mouth.

Kaoru

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since 2003-06-07

Posts 3892
where the wild flowers grow

3 posted 2003-09-13 12:23 PM

Again,
like becoming
the sky
and
the stars being
the reflection
of yourself
on the water.

Ceinwyn
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since 2000-07-09

Posts 2175
VA

4 posted 2003-09-13 12:31 PM

*tiptoes quietly out*

If at first you don't succeed destroy all the evidence that you tried.

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

5 posted 2003-09-13 01:23 AM

A wavering face
that presses chances
and changes the sky
to quicksilver tar.

Kaoru

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since 2003-06-07

Posts 3892
where the wild flowers grow

6 posted 2003-09-13 02:23 AM

As if in mirror
all things
collide to the
other side.
Your left,
is your right.
All fingers jolt to point,
and musical notes
become mathmatic,
like the depth of shadow..
the depth of your sea..
The color is inflicting,
as yellows become grey.

[This message has been edited by Kaoru (09-13-2003 02:50 AM).]

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

7 posted 2003-09-13 01:27 PM

And what music is this.
Breaking spume upon the rocks,
wet-slicked back diamonds
burning below the crystal ceiling,
to the floor of the sea.

What measures written respond
to the flux and distilled ebb
of this night? What words
could I say --

to make you stay?

Kaoru

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since 2003-06-07

Posts 3892
where the wild flowers grow

8 posted 2003-09-13 02:14 PM

To inhale those whispers,
share your sky.
Scratching initials in the clouds,
...the unspoken,
are magnetic.
Remembered
in a pile of forget.

Wind

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since 2002-10-12

Posts 2981

9 posted 2003-09-13 06:41 PM

And the angel said unto me, "These are the cries of the carrots, the cries of the carrots!"
-Tool

bsquirrel

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since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

10 posted 2003-09-13 07:57 PM

Ah, but we must go.
We must melt along the line,
as ribbons of surf
jettison to the shore.

Caressing shells
with forgotten hands.
Remember now their shapes,
their spaces.

We must go.

[This message has been edited by bsquirrel (09-13-2003 08:00 PM).]

Kaoru

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since 2003-06-07

Posts 3892
where the wild flowers grow

11 posted 2003-09-14 07:50 PM

And that, was the most wonderful ending I've ever read, M. Indeed..

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

12 posted 2003-09-14 08:20 PM

Aw, thanks. It wouldn't have happened without your input. So thanks for surreptiously dueting with me.

[This message has been edited by bsquirrel (09-14-2003 08:22 PM).]

Wind

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Posts 2981

13 posted 2003-09-14 09:09 PM

I am laughing at how sweet this is. just..you just randomly started this and...kept going...

And the angel said unto me, "These are the cries of the carrots, the cries of the carrots!"
-Tool

Ceinwyn
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14 posted 2003-09-14 09:11 PM

yeah sweet....

If at first you don't succeed destroy all the evidence that you tried.

bsquirrel

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since 2000-01-03

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15 posted 2003-09-16 01:23 PM

Thanks, Windy Kris!

wranx
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Posts 3689
Moved from a shack to a barn

16 posted 2003-09-16 10:04 PM

So? um, Mikey? Did ya write yourself outta that funk? because this spontaneous duetting was WAY cool! and KUDOS to Koaru!

This, and all below it, is a thing of stark beauty!

Ed

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

17 posted 2003-09-18 01:34 PM

Yeah, I'm feelin' better. Thanks, wranx.

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