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peppermint35
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since 2000-05-28
Posts 1106
Texas, USA

0 posted 2003-07-06 10:08 AM


I cannot say you've driven me insane
I do that most efficiently myself
But to give credit where it's due
You are a most amazing alchemist
This mix you've helped provide
Most surely is eating me alive
As I ponder all the reasons why
Looking for THE ANSWER
Answers are elusive eels
Difficult to grasp and hold
These things make me laugh or cry
Most powerful an unplanned cry
Erupting from the heart of me
Like molten lava it pours forth
Until it's done and I'm wrung dry
I also laugh unexpectedly
Amidst these pithy ponderings
Laugh when it's too ironic to cry
It's this kind of philosopy
Pushed me over the abyss

Pepper
"A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth."
   Percy Bysshe Shelley

[This message has been edited by peppermint35 (07-06-2003 10:49 AM).]

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Patricia
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since 2003-04-06
Posts 2160
Missouri
1 posted 2003-07-06 11:31 AM


I wanted to quote a few favorite lines, but with my third reading, I realized I would had quoted the entire poem.  I know your words all too well.  You expressed my feelings in a way I cannot, and with that I feel a release.  

A great write.

Patricia

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