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icebox
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since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

0 posted 2003-06-26 11:31 AM

When the lights of Paris
are dimming,
and sunrise licks at the Rhine,
I know your day is beginning
while I'm slowly shutting down mine.

Will you join me
this evening in my dreams?
Will we walk
once again on the sands
of an empire lost to the ages?
Will you sit with me
holding my hand?

Time has granted us two things,
awareness of past lives together,
and hardships
that help us to grow.

I wish my eyes saw the future
as clearly as I see the past,
but half of each life
I spend wandering,
picking up threads from the last.

So walk with me this night,
in my dreams,
we'll stroll
by the Rivers of Time,
secure in the soft understanding
that I am your's
as you are mine.

©2003 by icebox

Martie

Moderator

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

1 posted 2003-06-26 11:44 AM

icebox....Thank you for sharing this love that passes time and place barriers and still lights your dreams.

timothysangel1973

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since 2001-12-03

Posts 1725
Never close enough

2 posted 2003-06-26 11:45 AM

"I wish my eyes saw the future
as clearly as I see the past,
but half of each life
I spend wandering,
picking up threads from the last."

Hey Ice...are you in my mind this morning?

Wonderful write!

Mysteria

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since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

3 posted 2003-06-26 11:56 AM

I too spend my life in that fashion, and look forward to dreams to rekindle what I missed, and it's quite lovely. I am so enjoying your poetry.

Pilgrimage
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since 2001-12-04

Posts 3945
Texas, USA

4 posted 2003-06-26 11:58 AM

How utterly lovely. This evokes visions and longings...

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

5 posted 2003-06-26 01:28 PM

oooooooo...just gorgeous!

Bill Charles
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since 2000-07-11

Posts 10619
highways, & byways, for now

6 posted 2003-06-26 02:08 PM

icebox - you're are an excellant writer. I enjoy your words and thoughts...

BC

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

7 posted 2003-06-26 04:29 PM

This is so very beautiful, Icebox, and so much more than mere writing ability I'm inclined to think. Whatever and from wherever it comes, it speaks a truth not many people can truly understand.

Bonfirelight
Member

since 2003-06-19

Posts 85
London, England

8 posted 2003-06-26 04:50 PM

whimisical. thanks for the memories.

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

9 posted 2003-06-26 10:04 PM

Enjoyed...James

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