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Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

0 posted 2004-01-20 02:42 PM

I Chi Mae watch for him
And wonder if the rain
Which fell as pearls against
The screen of my window
Contained his ashes.

Ti Si lay beside me
As I spoke to her of the days
When I was taken from my home
To marry
And kissed my tears
As I cried for the years I had been away

My Mother they told me
Died three years after I left
But word did not reach me
Until the Old Man with Pots
Came round and he spoke of my home
As he ate the rice I offered.

My heart now twists
Like the stick caught in spring flood

A turn towards Ti Si
Then swirled towards thoughts
Of him I married.

I wait this way
On endless days that like camels tied
Follow one on the other
each stepping in the footprints
of the one before
and my burden brings fatigue.

Ti Si watches me with almond eyes
Remaining silent
And I pull her closer
For this bed is cold
And you my husband
Do not know the ways of pleasure
But for yourself.

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

1 posted 2004-01-20 02:43 PM

You've been reading/learning/listening
again.

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

2 posted 2004-01-20 02:47 PM

it all began with a picture... one of bright colors and showing the face of a woman carrying a basket... the rest, simply was born of imagination and the creation of a voice in my head that speaks the words...

I am afraid I am still quite ignorant, neglectful of reading, and blind to so much of what I see...

lol... why these.. and why the subject matter remains a bit of a mystery to me.

muted

Member Elite

since 2004-01-15

Posts 2949
Elapsing, Eclipsing, Evolving

3 posted 2004-01-20 02:50 PM

you are a great storyteller...im always looking for more!
...i'll be reading this one again and again!

Someday I'll fly, Someday I'll soar,
Someday I'll be So damn much more
Cause I'm bigger than my body
Gives me credit for.
~John Mayer

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

4 posted 2004-01-20 02:52 PM

(chuckling) a great story teller huh? most people just say I am full of it and know how to spread it around...

thank you for the nice words...

Sunshine

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

5 posted 2004-01-20 02:53 PM

And in a wayward backglance, congrats on the milestone.

Susan Caldwell
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

6 posted 2004-01-20 02:57 PM

Oh you snuck one in on me...

Geez, Ron...I wonder where this is going...

Then I read the last line...LMAO..guess not...

love ya mister! And yes you are a great story teller!!!

"sit on top of the world and tell me how you feel...'cause what you feel is what I feel for you.."
~Dido~

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

7 posted 2004-01-20 02:57 PM

(laughing) the number of times I might have added some bit of trivial crap to these fine pages is truly not a milestone.. more perhaps something to be mourned...

Sunshine

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

8 posted 2004-01-20 03:03 PM

HA!

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

9 posted 2004-01-20 03:10 PM

*smiling at you*

whispering
....damn.

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

10 posted 2004-01-20 03:16 PM

Susan.. thank you

Sunshine.. HA! back...

Tinker... a sigh from you..is indeed a compliment.. thank you

Greeneyes

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-09-09

Posts 9903
In Your Poetic Mind

11 posted 2004-01-20 03:47 PM

sigh...these are so wonderful to read and get lost in.....

~*~
In your light I learn how to love
In your beauty how to make poems
You dance inside my chest where
no one sees you and that sight becomes art

poetically ghetto
Member

since 2004-01-20

Posts 100

12 posted 2004-01-20 03:53 PM

even though i'm a man
i loved the ending of this poem
so good that you keep it real
keep up the good work

Charisma

Member Ascendant

since 2000-09-30

Posts 5906
lost in blue pages

13 posted 2004-01-20 04:11 PM

mmmmm I almost forgot the tale of your stories.....eh poetry.....eh..see what I mean....

just kidding I know your poems have mostly always a nice twist....or telling a story...or....more.

and you know what, I always like to read you, have missed that lately C.

hugs
Charisma

Duncan
Member Ascendant

since 2001-08-07

Posts 5455

14 posted 2004-01-20 11:54 PM

"My heart now twists
Like the stick caught in spring flood

A turn towards Ti Si
Then swirled towards thoughts
Of him I married."

It is a powerful current to attempt and you write it with the insight and understanding I have come to appreciate so much from you, both as a poet and a friend.

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