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James_A_Fraser
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0 posted 2003-12-30 04:00 PM


Dream

Waves on waves of shining silk
dark on dark in the dreamlight
I feel her ephemeral warmth
too soft ever to touch
as she dances away again
and I wake in blackness
wanting to sleep forever.






Something I wrote in (I think) 1964, and never finished. I almost always did rhyme back then, and took things to logical conclusions or hook endings. I ran across this the other day and realized it was complete after all. Odd, how grown-up eyes see things so differently.

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1 posted 2003-12-30 04:03 PM



Seems that was a very good year, James...
very good, indeed.

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2 posted 2003-12-30 04:04 PM


Friend~
A small *sigh* of pleasured realize that I know this poet and he is as good now as he has ever been~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
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Martie
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3 posted 2003-12-30 04:05 PM


Jamie...Some dreams are worth keeping forever.  It's good to see you posting again...you've been missed!
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4 posted 2003-12-30 04:21 PM


and I wake in blackness
wanting to sleep forever.

I know this well... just lacked the words to say it so beautifully. I'm glad you found this treasure... like the gold it is, years only lend it soft shine. *S*

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5 posted 2003-12-30 06:33 PM


Powerful write...great poem!

Eric

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6 posted 2003-12-30 10:01 PM


The Muse is without age.  The poet is a lens which changes with life through time.

This poem is a wonderful statement and you are correct that it is very much complete as it is.  Thank you for sharing it.

James_A_Fraser
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7 posted 2003-12-30 11:58 PM


This poem is the first instance I could find in which I expressed a recurring dream, that haunted me for all but the first few years of my life -- and still does.



~~J

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8 posted 2003-12-31 04:39 AM


excellently done!
nakdthoughts
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9 posted 2003-12-31 06:28 AM


James, how I wish I wrote poetry back then. So much to have expressed when I was younger.

Happy New Year

M

Patricia
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10 posted 2003-12-31 08:18 AM


A beautiful whisper of words...delicate and smooth in flow, words that I know.  

And yes, grown up eyes do see things so differently.  I started writing when I was 13 or so, and just yesterday, I wished I could remember how it felt just to let the words flow, unworried about the finish line.  Now you look to see, 40 years later...all was complete.

Gosh, I love everything about this.  As you can see by rambling...I don't want to go.  So, I am keeping this in my library, if you don't mind...

Patricia

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11 posted 2003-12-31 08:50 AM


James thanks for taking a second look at this beautiful poem.  I'm glad you shared it with us.

believe in what your heart feels...

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12 posted 2003-12-31 08:05 PM


A beautiful dream James and definitely one to keep forever; and yes it is complete.

Maree

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I've lost the very best of me"

Natalie Merchant


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