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1slick_lady
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0 posted 2003-07-05 05:15 AM


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ratleader...i say to thee...

Thou Art A Poet

thou art a poet
I feel thy pain
as deep as oceans floor
salty as any sea
love abounds like green
painted across spring
in colors rich in textured
passion when drops drip
in waxed wick’s life
and ooze in melt across pages
where anger flies in flame
from red to blue when joy touches
then your brush takes empty canvas to
open windows for breezes breath
and brings me close, caresses me
and lets me in through words
for thou art
a poet


"if you keep looking back, you are going to miss your whole life" Unknown

© Copyright 2003 Helen Chambers - All Rights Reserved
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1 posted 2003-07-05 08:57 AM


Don't know what to say, Helen....

....except to thank you from the deepest places in me, and tell you that this poem describes the very best I hope ever to accomplish as a writer. That I achieve even a part of it is fulfillment of a dream I hardly dare to look at myself, let alone share with anyone else..... now they all know, and I thank you for that too.

I'd love this poem even if it weren't mine, because for a writer this is as good as it gets.

~~(¸¸¸¸ºº>   ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº>  ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº>    ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº>
______________Ratleader______________

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2 posted 2003-07-05 10:37 AM


You've written such beautiful truth... for if he's not a poet, then I don't know anyone who deserves the designation. *S*

But he is... The insight he brings to the simplest observations brush them with magic, he takes our emotions both into hell and beyond the skies and leaves us longing for more at the end of either journey... he asks us to think... and the one answer appropriate for every read is: Yes... this is poetry... poetry at its very best.

Thank you, lady... for the beautiful poem... and telling it like it is. *S*

[This message has been edited by suthern (07-05-2003 10:39 AM).]

littlewing
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3 posted 2003-07-06 10:38 PM


Helen:

what a beautiful tribute from one amazing poet to another and two of my favorite people . . .

This is amazing
xxoo

[This message has been edited by littlewing (07-07-2003 01:03 AM).]

Martie
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4 posted 2003-07-07 02:05 PM


Helen...This is so poetically beautiful and a wonderful compliment to the poet, who is all that you say here.
suthern
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5 posted 2003-07-08 01:35 PM


I can't believe I forgot to add this to my library... correcting that mistake now. *S*
gemjop
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6 posted 2003-07-08 01:37 PM


Helen, he is, he is. loved this tribute to a friend.
Aenimal
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7 posted 2003-07-08 02:03 PM


how the hell did I miss this? Awesome yeah Ed listen to her she knows things. You're both amazing
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8 posted 2003-07-08 05:07 PM


I'll try, but it's hard to listen with my head swelled up to this giant size....the internal pressure is pinching my ears shut....

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9 posted 2003-07-08 06:10 PM


you are both awsome

I said I'm going to buy a gun and start a war,
If you can tell me something worth fighting for
-coldplay

Sunshine
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10 posted 2003-07-08 06:56 PM


I so enjoy
when poets
acknowledge
poets.

scorpio
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11 posted 2003-07-08 07:04 PM



Truly wonderful compliment..

believe in what your heart feels...

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