your letters: a soft breath; an earthquake

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Elizabeth Cor
Senior Member

since 2000-10-13

Posts 879
Over the river and through the woods

0 posted 2002-04-06 08:57 PM

your letters: a soft breath; an earthquake

the burning:
the twisting, aching wind in me
that feels like wings.

the holding:
how tenderly palmed,
how defensively fisted;
to hide, but
for
the feeling of being found.

the nervous rub of
wanting you,
when I am
hungry,
when the world is dazzling
and i am struck dumb.

~

the selfishness of liquid:
how it refuses edges,
forces the rim of plagiaristic skin
even
into its container;

your haunt
fills me
like water
in wood

in the empty spaces,
in the pores of places
thought to be complete
alone.

~

this wonder:
a thought
that wakes me
by nestling its head against my collarbone,
by clenching my heart

until
it bursts

the way a smile orgasms to laughter;
the way a shotgun explodes a tree.

[This message has been edited by Elizabeth Cor (04-07-2002 01:13 PM).]

Bill Charles
Member Patricius

since 2000-07-11

Posts 10619
highways, & byways, for now

1 posted 2002-04-06 09:04 PM

Elizabeth - you write of the burning very well indeed...

BC

ThisDiamond
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-02-22

Posts 9353
Michigan, USA

2 posted 2002-04-06 10:34 PM

Such passion and fire to be told. Really well done. ThisDiamond

SEA

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Member Seraphic

since 2000-01-18

Posts 22676
with you

3 posted 2002-04-06 10:56 PM

"the nervous rub of
wanting you,
when I am
hungry,
when the world is dazzling
and i am struck dumb."

wow....I loved this part...extremely cool

Ivy Rose
Senior Member

since 2001-12-29

Posts 1300
MA, USA

4 posted 2002-04-07 12:51 PM

Elizabeth...VERY BEAUTIFUL, DELICATELY PENNED POEM!!! Your style of writing is powerful, full of intensity, passion.

***Ivy Rose

2dalimit
Member Elite

since 2000-02-08

Posts 2228
Mississippi coast

5 posted 2002-04-07 07:21 AM

Full of emotion. The title alone is rather astounding.

Thanks,
Melton

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

6 posted 2002-04-07 07:50 AM

Excellent!

vandana

Member Patricius

since 1999-10-22

Posts 10463
USA

7 posted 2002-04-07 10:05 AM

enjoyed

Alicia
Member

since 2002-03-22

Posts 279

8 posted 2002-04-07 03:13 PM

~Oh Miss,...I know sitting here with one hand on my heart and the other across my mouth in complete silence and breathing,...staring at this screen, just isn't going to get you the message,...but where?, how would, I,...just awed, you. I don't think the rest of me can speak yet, still sitting here, still feeling this feeling,...sigh, wish I could describe,...
and I honestly don't want to say these words, because, they won't mean what I truly want them to mean, they won't be enough, they couldn't be, but yes, thank you for you, and this swirling Sunday!
*Peace and love M. more.

Jamie
Member Elite

since 2000-06-26

Posts 3168
Blue Heaven

9 posted 2002-04-08 11:27 PM

and when a liquid seeks and finds its edges-- then it can overflow them....

There is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar.
byron

Tiersdin
Member Elite

since 2000-11-17

Posts 2364
east coast

10 posted 2002-04-09 09:50 PM

exquisite!

*smiles*
~Tier

Christopher

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-02

Posts 8296
Purgatorial Incarceration

11 posted 2002-04-10 10:36 AM

your haunt
fills me
like water
in wood

this is a perfect image - dense and poignant. tres cool meegan.

C

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