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LeeJ
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since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296


0 posted 2004-01-16 11:45 AM


Your description claimed every one of my details
Single lines focused and burned
Out there some place, birthed a happy meal and
Became sure of itself…like a mortal sin
Certain like documents enslaving forethoughts
Morning became a frequent soul
Interesting isn’t it,
Things that appear, before and after the main event?

Amber waves continued farther south
And kept on going, just like a coo coo clock
The orchestra remained in view while we poured
Shots of Chambord in our glass of Champaign
You bubbled nomadic observations
We looked through an Immortal listening booth
Where cicadas sounded like even voltage
Moving their hands back and forth like an old woman
Capturing 25 images per second, emotions linking
Like red ruby lips relating a subliminal perception.

Reaffirmation became faithful to Crispy Crèmes,
Renting movies on weekends, reading tea leaves in-between
Embarking on an outreach program, we became very drunk
Nirvana was our punishment, with rock and rollin’ spunk
When things became parallel to acute satisfying moments
You were the premier human experience
We earned degrees in self-reliance, extraordinarily rare
The Staten Island Ferry grew fond of some culinary goddess
While remaining lost in thought about nonfictions
We wrote the book on self proclaimed greatest authors living
And…the intensity of the book was writing it together…
Unplagued by experience, we lived within the main event
And now I feel as I’ve traveled a great deal  
I've now become someone else
All our events were real stories and remain real memories...vivid and stealth

I’ve embroidered a pillow case from that last departing
The factual information at the time, seemed way to dramatic
The whole idea of the translation fascinated me
Where you made a point of not saying a word
For me, didn't quit translate into English
But proposes one heck of a pattern


© Copyright 2004 Lee J. - All Rights Reserved
Terrina
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since 2003-12-31
Posts 166
California
1 posted 2004-01-16 11:48 AM


You are very talented and I can see what you write. That is powerful.
Thanks for sharing

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577
displaced
2 posted 2004-01-16 12:34 PM


kind of sad...but made me think about breaking open the bottle of champagne I have in the fridge
iliana
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since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434
USA
3 posted 2004-01-16 04:02 PM


LeeJ -- your poetry is so deep.  This is one I will want to read and re-read!  It's going to my library.  You are such a gifted writer!
GG
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since 2002-12-03
Posts 3532
Lost in thought
4 posted 2004-01-18 10:42 PM


Wow, you told a story with this one...
Of sadness, and love, and contentedness.
Thats what I see, at least.
I love it.

Always, Alyssa

He was a man of sorrows
...I am a girl of tears.

EverRuss
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since 2003-12-31
Posts 66
Indiana
5 posted 2004-01-18 10:50 PM


very powerful i can see really what you mean

If my poems could talk they would mean more than the words

Russell

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