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lucky
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0 posted 2003-08-26 01:50 PM




I was lucky & you a rose


despair is why
I had to leave but the trouble with
leaving is staying away so long that it makes
the spirit ache your dancin' like a gypsy surviving
on Spam and I the hippy smokin' a ride into Tucson
lookin' for a peace train got to watch your step yer
running out of time standing on the boulevard
underneath a Wool Worths sign eating

a bacon lettuce
tomato
trying
to blend
in pressin' a rhyme
between the vellum of foreign
parchment down at the fisherman's wharf
the market hums & a ferry runs into a foamy
strait I guess we kinda burnt the candle a
little low didn’t see which way to go
down those old hotel corridors

hoping to start a flame
‘cause we lost the
one we had
I was

lucky
and you a rose


Speaking of ghosts, wouldn't you know here comes mine again...
~Rosemary J. Gwaltney~


© Copyright 2003 Dale W. Gwaltney - All Rights Reserved
Martie
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1 posted 2003-08-27 12:46 PM


Dale, my friend...I always enjoy going down the path of your words....sort of like watching a piece of your movie, and in color!
Kaoru
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where the wild flowers grow
2 posted 2003-08-27 12:48 PM


I really dig this, a lot.

I'm saving it, if you don't mind.

RomanticPoet
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since 2003-08-25
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3 posted 2003-08-27 01:19 AM


Quite Interesting; I enjoyed it, the lack of punctuation or an extra space beteen line breaks kept me busy, no breathing space there. but content was wonderful.

We Feel,We Write,We learn; We Write More

Kahlil
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4 posted 2003-08-28 09:55 PM


I really like this write for all the raw emotion, and then for the artistic visual design of it, too. And then, do you think she realizes what she has lost?  ~K~

[This message has been edited by Kahlil (08-29-2003 12:18 AM).]

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