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Open Poetry #21

May This Not Be Prophecy

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2002-08-10 12:23 PM

May This Not Be Prophecy

What were those ideas
slipping by
on the sly?

How are they retrieved?
Conceived?
Believed?

Wrinkles of time confuse,
refuse,
bemuse.

Thoughts come walking up,
interrupt,
then erupt

in mindless gaze to recapture,
enrapture,
synapse cure.

Misfired logic escapes,
reshapes
my tape.

Nostalgia is a hard thing to miss
out on.
Don’t you agree?

How might one wax nostalgic
of a history
lost to webbed wiring,
misfiring?

Old timers’ Alzheimers
conspires
to steal one’s zeal.

©August 10, 2002

Whether on the shoal or on the shore,
I'll seek the lighthouse evermore.

Madame Chipmunk
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-05

Posts 8296
Michigan

1 posted 2002-08-10 12:39 PM

I love your rhyme scheme here, Virginia...
You made the words, the rhyme and the meaning all fit together as a perfect package.....
very excellent!

~ hugs from a
debunked
chipmunk

Lyra

copyright2002 Lyra Nesius

"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

catalinamoon

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-06-03

Posts 9543
The Shores of Alone

2 posted 2002-08-10 12:53 PM

Good write, Virginia, interesting rhyming.
Sandra

Mistletoe Angel

Member Empyrean

since 2000-12-17

Posts 32816
Portland, Oregon

3 posted 2002-08-10 01:11 PM

Yay!!! I too thought the rhyming really stood out in this wonderful poem, I love it, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Virginia, thank you for sharing!

May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

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

Shakira

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