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Dark Stranger
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0 posted 2003-01-10 08:26 AM



ashen sigh of granite
when you sleep
I kiss your chill
with foot step mouth
I smear your lipstick dust

your winter skin without flaw
perfection mosaic
do your lines have feeling
where they meet at corners
too 90ish to be smile degrees

do you really want a star
tattoos on women
mean someone has touched
privately in public
at least in thought

would I see it with bare feet
and have you chosen a name
of that man or woman
would you wear an animal
perhaps the gypsum moschus

can I still sleep with you
when the ginmills discard me
will you warm me with your metal
and show my fingers your color
can we sit and talk sometimes

when bare legs wave at buicks

©Dark


(place in hollywood that I used to sit and sip whiskey...they are gonna put a star there now....whoopee I guess, but even a sidewalk needs a love poem)


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Sunshine
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1 posted 2003-01-10 08:44 AM



Even a sidewalk
needs a love poem...
catching traces
of footstep
in shadows...

Seymour Tabin
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Tamarac Fla
2 posted 2003-01-10 08:47 AM


Dark Stranger
An intricate weave of ebb, enjoyed.

Enchantress
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3 posted 2003-01-10 08:51 AM


"when bare legs wave at buicks"
Yes...even a sidewalk needs a love poem.
Mmmmm, good morning DS.
~Smiles & Winks~

~Time has cast a spell on you,
  So you won't ever forget me~

garysgirl
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4 posted 2003-01-10 08:51 AM


I like this poem for the sidewalk.........  

"Love makes the world go around"
~~with love and hugs from Ethel~~  
                  

defenestrate
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5 posted 2003-01-10 09:16 AM


excellent metaphor/imagery. i'm kind of curious as to the separated final line. did you do it to keep the other stanzas uniform? is it designed to leave the reader with a kind of superimposed image (of the bare legs waving) that is to be taken as being as important as each separate stanza? i hope you'll forgive me for my naivete, i'm not a very experienced poetry reader, and i'm hoping to improve my writing skills by understanding why people choose to do certain things in their work.

i can relate very well with this work-good stuff.

serenity blaze
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6 posted 2003-01-10 09:21 AM


I am just giddy over here.

swooning.

sigh.

damnyergood.

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7 posted 2003-01-10 09:23 AM


well..can't say I am giddy or swooning but do agree...damnyourgood...

nice to read you again DS... I do enjoy the imagery and style..

Salty
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8 posted 2003-01-10 09:30 AM


I think you just seduced your way in...leaving  a warm sidewalk smile


Beautiful write!


~Salty

In the Midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
--Deepak Chop

Dark Stranger
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9 posted 2003-01-10 09:37 AM


Sunshine....mmmm you serve such sweet greetings, thanks babe.

Sy, thanks guy..just trippin again.

Enchantress, you warm the morning lady friend, thanks to you.

garysgirl, thank you for your review and reply.

defenstrate....more of a footprint that has followed me for a few years....usually just how it happens, something left sticking out....in this case it was the ladies of the night that are viewed from this curb arena in the midnight review that lingered after my mind was lifted from the limeskined stage?   Thanks for your review and interest...a pleasure to share my friend.

Serenity.....your saliva is lovely may I bottle it in a worthy flask?  Thanks lady..

Cpat..thanks for your review, made my day my friend.

Salty, mmmmmmm thanks babe...seduction is such a lovely naughty.

[This message has been edited by Dark Stranger (01-10-2003 09:40 AM).]

vandana
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10 posted 2003-01-10 09:50 AM


enjoyed
Janet Marie
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11 posted 2003-01-10 11:12 AM


ashen sigh of granite
when you sleep
I kiss your chill
with foot step mouth
I smear your lipstick dust


your winter skin without flaw
perfection mosaic
do your lines have feeling
where they meet at corners
too 90ish to be smile degrees

do you really want a star
tattoos on women
mean someone has touched
privately in public

at least in thought
==============================

I was thinking how cool this poem was...
all the personification and analogy...thinking you were speaking abstractly of a woman...then I get to your explanation at the end and I just had to smile...learning this was about the sidewalk made all the metaphors even cooler...and as always....impressive.

yeah...even sidewalks need love poems


I smear your lipstick dust

could that line be any cooler!!!

Moths dont care if the flame is real
The moth and flame got a sweetheart deal
Nothing fuels like flirtation
Like need, anger & desperation

A.M.

Midnitesun
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12 posted 2003-01-10 11:59 AM


Enjoyed the stroll along the sidewalk, smiled at the lipstick dust...
I remember Hollywood, lived in the Canyon
years ago. BTW, is McCabe's in SM still alive and well?

Gentle Spirit
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13 posted 2003-01-10 12:08 PM


and smiles linger long after the read....
well done amigo!

passing shadows
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displaced
14 posted 2003-01-10 01:15 PM



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15 posted 2003-01-10 02:03 PM


  Missed you.....

L~

I sing to life
To it's tragic beauty
To pain and strife
Let all that dances through me
The rise and the fall, I lived through it all

wranx
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16 posted 2003-01-11 12:12 PM


This needs to find its' way back to the top.

I'll help it along.

Ed

GOlDsparklESS
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17 posted 2003-01-11 12:38 PM


hot damn!!! what else can i say????  i am stuck in inarticulate splendor
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18 posted 2003-01-11 03:44 AM


now that was some use of metaphors - it has my heart in flutters up here.

Sure have missed your writing and it was so nice to see your name here tonight.

~ The soul lies buried in ink that does not flow ~
        

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19 posted 2003-01-11 04:34 AM




(sigh) I've been down Hollywood Boulevard before up through Vine Street and beyond and with so much decay and desolation around the suburbs, it would never hurt to urban renewalize! (big hugggsssssss) God Bless You, sweet friend, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet friend, 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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