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serenity blaze
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0 posted 2002-08-24 10:05 AM


I wish I had a scab to pick--
I'm yearning pieces of me gone--
I'm sitting humming silences
as all around me demands song.

I wish I held a plastic shield
instead of ice that parts my way--
conversation is mine field--
bits of people on the way...

I wish I had not slathered mud
across my face to further blind...
I wish I was not in this war.
I wish I had not lost my mind.

I have to rid myself of watch--
tick-tock driving me insane...
instead I cut my left hand off--
and wish that I could feel the pain.

I dream of things I could have done
had I not wished my hand gone--
I dream of jacks, and bubble-gum...
I wish, I could wish myself--young...

[This message has been edited by serenity blaze (08-24-2002 10:18 AM).]

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Magnus
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1 posted 2002-08-24 12:02 PM


Karen,  I think we all have wished this...

Your title made me wonder if I took the fish
out of the boat?  Did I?  

serenity blaze
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2 posted 2002-08-24 12:08 PM


Um, Mag? why? you smell something fishy?

ROFLMAO

brian sites
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since 2002-06-25
Posts 1475
usa
3 posted 2002-08-24 01:34 PM


if replies were cowpies,
mine
would be fresh
sorry
popped out
you have an amazing way of describing regret
the images...
ow
b

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07
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Tamarac Fla
4 posted 2002-08-24 02:57 PM


serenity,
You grabed me with the title. Sorry there is nothing physical you can do, but you have the sort of mind that could be young forever.

Madame Chipmunk
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since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296
Michigan
5 posted 2002-08-24 03:28 PM


Me too, Karen...
the years just fly too fast!
I love your poem!
~ youthful hugs from an old chipmunk

Lyra

copyright2002 Lyra Nesius

"poetry is life distilled"  Gwendolyn Brooks

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