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Masked Intruder
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Near golden sunsets

0 posted 2003-03-10 12:50 PM


Stranger things have happened
when I walk down an interstate
between cities that have no
important names or locations.
Fewer people have waved, honked
or called out to a lonely traveller;
More sirens have blared and
lights have flashed as the law
realized it was being broken;
And a twister had come down
to whip around in my face once,
just once before.

But it had never gotten dark before,
the path had always been clear.
Headlights at least had blazed
from over distant hills
at limit breaking speeds, but this,
this was darkness complete,
leaving nothing to reflect off
the reflectors, nothing to shine
over pavement or concrete.

Nothing to suggest that I wasn't
alone, breaking strands of nothing
with each dutiful step westward...

...towards nothing.

Wind's Challenge

© Copyright 2003 Philip Zemler - All Rights Reserved
ecrivan
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my own state
1 posted 2003-03-10 12:56 PM


funny I just wrote a poem on the absense of white and here is a similar topic...nice go


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displaced
2 posted 2003-03-10 01:38 AM


stranger things have happened...

nice write!

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3 posted 2003-03-10 07:55 AM


I just keep thinking about how cute raccoons are--until they are cornered..then they are quite the ferocious little fighters.

hugs you...(missed ya--I've been in solitairy confinement all weekend--pout)


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4 posted 2003-03-10 08:08 AM


Masked Intruder
Well done, enjoyed the read.

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5 posted 2003-03-10 08:35 PM


I really liked that.

I look and I listen, does not everyone?

-Diane lee Wilson

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