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bsquirrel
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0 posted 2003-10-21 02:49 PM



I'll burn the sky black,
just for you to see
the colored, paling leaves
cupped into the breeze.
Spindly stem-light hold
letting go.

Skirting to the water,
a dappled leafy puddle.
Trembled, windless sails
without want of ships --
threaded droplet ships
without need of sails.

I'll burn the sky black,
roiling clouds of blotted light,
so in the darkness you will find
the gentle swimming of their sway.
Slowly growing cold,
losing all their gold.

Taste my lips, cinderless,
and brush the afterglow away.
The final colors that we see
before it fades.

That is why abstract is new.
That is why one word is but
one word said, without restraint,

Feel the fire
threading in.

without the truth -- the sadness
of our mouths' sealed shape.

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Duncan
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since 2001-08-07
Posts 5455

1 posted 2003-10-21 03:22 PM


"Taste my lips, cinderless,
and brush the afterglow away.
The final colors that we see
before it fades.

That is why abstract is new.
That is why one word is but
one word said, without restraint,

Feel the fire
threading in."

Love this part Mike.  Nice to see you here in Open!  

Toerag
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since 1999-07-29
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Ala bam a
2 posted 2003-10-21 03:31 PM


Interesting write....and your picture?...ya just saw your first glimpse of Balladeer in the nude didn't ya?.....It's okay...it's all been done surgically, it's not real....
bsquirrel
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3 posted 2003-10-21 07:08 PM


Thanks, guys. A rare sighting to be sure.
Sunshine
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Listening to every heart
4 posted 2003-10-22 09:20 AM


I'll burn the sky black,
roiling clouds of blotted light,
so in the darkness you will find
the gentle swimming of their sway.

~*~

Now you knew I would like this...

Susan Caldwell
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since 2002-12-27
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5 posted 2003-10-22 11:18 AM


"Taste my lips, cinderless,
and brush the afterglow away.
The final colors that we see
before it fades."

Love it...

Susan

"if you won't let me fall for you
then you won't see the best that I would love to do for you"
~Dido~

SharaRose
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since 2003-07-19
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Somewhere out there~
6 posted 2003-10-22 11:24 AM


When it's over, it's over and that should be for both! Thank you for sharing.
Terri~

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