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bsquirrel
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0 posted 2003-11-25 01:41 PM


What are pictures anyway?
Patterns in the glass.
They crack, they fold, they crumble.
Discolored memory.
They tint the sky to yellow.
They brush dirt on your face.

They never melt the snow.
You hover on my wall,
seeing out and sightless.
I brush my hand across your capture.
No nearer to you now.
Frames are fallen leaves.

I open one thick book,
an album's worth of film.
Of what exactly? Who's to say
what songs you wavered out that day.
I'll let them leave. Formality
of playing cards, sun-spinning motes.

Changing through long years
of keys, they never change at all.
These inked-back sliver messages,
notes that stick and stain.
Ready as a breath to blow
dried dandelion seeds.

Empty fields of sunlight.
Rows of chairs are empty.
All those spaces photographed
haunted by our absence.
The words are wrapped in twine
and left boxed in the attic.

What are pictures anyway?
That is something we would say.

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Enchantress
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1 posted 2003-11-25 01:45 PM


Gosh Michael..you leave the reader with so much to think about!
I love that..to sit back and read again..enjoyed this piece!
Hugs~

~I've loved you forever, in lifetimes before~

the_loner_23
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2 posted 2003-11-25 01:48 PM


yes this leaves much to ponder. But I troughly enjoyed it.

Cold hands means a warm heart

Lost Dreamer
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3 posted 2003-11-26 12:03 PM


Very interesting poem indeed. Glad I happened upon it tonight.

Sometimes we have to follow a stronger voice, even if it's silent.



bsquirrel
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4 posted 2003-11-26 02:37 AM


Thank you.
passing shadows
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5 posted 2003-11-26 03:41 AM


*...thinking...*
wranx
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6 posted 2003-11-26 12:21 PM


Squirrel dude? I've read a bunch of you, and believe this to be one of the very best.

Or, perhaps it's just that I could see so many of my own pictures in this.

Awesome, in any case.

Duncan
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7 posted 2003-11-26 04:05 PM


"They never melt the snow.
You hover on my wall,
seeing out and sightless.
I brush my hand across your capture.
No nearer to you now.
Frames are fallen leaves."


and

"Empty fields of sunlight.
Rows of chairs are empty.
All those spaces photographed
haunted by our absence.
The words are wrapped in twine
and left boxed in the attic.

What are pictures anyway?
That is something we would say."

Yep, got the pictures...in boxes with other assorted tools of self-torture...
Excellent write Mike.  Glad I stopped by.
  

bsquirrel
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8 posted 2003-11-26 04:41 PM


Glad you all enjoyed, and got something from this.

m

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