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ethome
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0 posted 2002-06-03 05:52 AM



They wanted me to always look out for you    
Boys alone with their daughter bothered them      
But you grew older, now I simply adore you
and they're afraid this loser just might win.

I like the fact I live beside you baby
at the gateway to love near discipline
We're guided by the power of what's happenin
the boiling spirit, underneath our skin    

I don't feel sorry that I dumped your sister
she'd always tell them where you'd been
and now you see her stayin at home waitin
while we're drugged with love lip to chin.

Now here we are in a long airport line up
Oh how we prayed for this thrill to begin
I don't like it by the window I'll take the isle
but I don't want to be far from your grin
  
Oh I thank you for the kindness of growing up  
and taking this advenbture on the wind    
We practised many nights and we're ready
I'll play the french horn and you the violin

They believe us when we say we live for music
cause you're in grade six now and I'm in seven
The school band won these tickets down to Boston
I hope we do the same next year again.


The role of poetry is to utter the un-utterable; to open up
spaces of consciousness and resistance; to language oppressions; to
re-language historie

© Copyright 2002 Eric Lewis True - All Rights Reserved
Sunshine
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Listening to every heart
1 posted 2002-06-03 06:37 AM



Cute with a twist!

Dark Stranger
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2 posted 2002-06-03 07:51 AM


yesss... dug it huge ethome
Janet Marie
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3 posted 2002-06-03 08:10 AM


They wanted me to always look out for you    
Boys alone with their daughter bothered them      
But you grew older, now I simply adore you
and they're afraid this loser just might win.

I like the fact I live beside you baby
at the gateway to love near discipline
We're guided by the power of what's happenin
the boiling spirit, underneath our skin    

I don't feel sorry that I dumped your sister
she'd always tell them where you'd been
and now you see her stayin at home waitin
while we're drugged with love lip to chin.

==================================

"Lip to chin"? NOW thats a kiss! lol  
Well ya had me going on this Eric...thought they were eloping
cute and clever write here ...

at the gateway to love near discipline

I love that original, unique line and thought.
I hear this one with a jazzy twist...sorta like when Van adds in some horns
waaay cool E-babes

Cant stand up for fallin apart
Cant see through this veil across my heart, over you-
Youll always be the one.
You were the first, youll be the last

Martie
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4 posted 2002-06-03 09:55 AM


Ethome

On the edge...so sweet.  Really enjoyed the story in this, and the end got me smiling.  Thanks!

serenity blaze
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5 posted 2002-06-03 11:57 AM


grinning--living for the music? Indeed!!!

this is delightful!

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6 posted 2002-06-03 07:45 PM




(smiles) Awwwwww, this is soooooo cute, sweet friend, the end of this poem also made me smile so big, your words are always so beautifully heartfelt and reflect the loving and sensitive boy in your heart! (sigh) This is wonderful, sweet friend, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Eric, thank you for sharing!



May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

"Underneath your clothes there's an endless story..."

Shakira

Suetang
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7 posted 2002-06-03 07:52 PM


Hello ethome

Wow!  This was brilliant and you captured my attention from start to finish with your worderful story.  I adored the ending.

Take care......Sue

Suetang

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8 posted 2002-06-03 07:58 PM


This little twist is extremely cute...and
I do love the ending....

Excellent!!

Enchantress
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9 posted 2002-06-03 07:59 PM


Ah Eric, what a sweet story!
Loved it!
~hugs~

~Somewhere in my heart I'm always
dancing with you in the summer rain~

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10 posted 2002-06-04 05:56 PM


Thoroughly enjoyed... loved the ending! *S*
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11 posted 2002-06-04 07:02 PM


PT darling boy I suppose you think that I’m going to praise you to the skies? Hmmm? …….. Well, of course I am, this is utterly utterly wonderful as YOU very well know. The picture you painted with words is vibrant and so cuter I loved it, the tone of the poem as light as fairy dust and oh how you’ve sprinkled that joy around.

This is really fabulous writing sometimes when you don’t expect it showers of moonbeams descend on you. They dropped like little twinkles of delight when I read this. Oh my eyes they are refreshed and my soul is washed in joy this is sooooooooo good, and just like you to twist the ending wittily.

Absolutely first class writing you are an utterly wonderful writer.


Love and warm stuff
As always
Mushy

Breathe through the heat of our desire
Thy coolness and they balm
Let sense be dumb let flesh retire
Speak through the eathquake wind and fire
Oh

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12 posted 2002-06-04 07:35 PM


very loving and tender sir...most enjoyable.....

Lauren~

I would rather have one breath of his hair,
one kiss of his mouth,
one touch of his hand
than an eternity without it.

Elizabeth Santos
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13 posted 2002-06-04 07:49 PM


There's a little twinkle in my eye
How precious this is
Liz

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14 posted 2002-06-04 08:48 PM


Too cute, too cute!

A broken heart may hurt me, but a broken heart won't kill me.

azblond
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15 posted 2002-06-04 09:48 PM


My favorite writers always throw a twist in the end...this one takes you to the top of the list!

Let my words fall first upon deaf ears before a closed mind...

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displaced
16 posted 2002-06-05 03:26 PM


this is very cute...I played the clarinet...what memories!
ethome
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New Brunswick Canada
17 posted 2002-06-05 03:41 PM


Thanks to all for the encouraging comments. I just haven't had the time today to reply individually however, I usually try to....Please forgive me on this one!....Thanks once again!
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