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Duncan
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0 posted 2004-01-20 10:19 PM



Be no echo of my sentiment
nor still stream blurred by touch

mirror, mirror
it is only beauty
stays the want.

With no pretense of selflessness
my gaze becomes your Narcissus

reflect then eyes
aesthetic bliss
in drowning.

Till evening settles soft the light
and shadows fall on days respite

then touch transcribes
my eyes delight
to braille.


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1 posted 2004-01-20 10:40 PM


With no pretense of selflessness
my gaze becomes your Narcissus

* cool line*
hey porch puppy, hope your blankie is keeping you warm

iliana
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2 posted 2004-01-20 11:03 PM


Oh, so beautifully penned!
BluesSerenade
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3 posted 2004-01-21 12:39 PM


Till evening settles soft the light
and shadows fall on days respite

then touch transcribes
my eyes delight
to braille.

Such a nice feel to this Duncan!!  
...my Dad used to read braille, and I remember thinking,
it must take the softest touch to understand and get it right.


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4 posted 2004-01-21 02:18 AM


*whew, this is good*
ok, more than good, its fantastic!

beauty is in the "hand" of the beholder

beauty is only perception, it is so much easier if we stop looking and just start feeling......

passing shadows
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5 posted 2004-01-21 03:35 AM


Echo


Narcissus
that's my nickname for you
that's how I will remember you

after all these years

on mire you dance
until you dissolve into light
while my words walk by

in Echo

Sunshine
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6 posted 2004-01-21 06:39 AM


Like Dixie, this deserves a poetic response...
I think I'll have to come back
to do so however, because for now
I'm without.

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7 posted 2004-01-21 08:05 AM


Hi Duncan,
This is quite lovely, perfect flow and with a poetic theam that should be published.
regards Richard.

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8 posted 2004-01-21 08:53 AM


Hey Duncan

sigh I have to say I didnt want this to end....a gentle touch and softer images
were playing the shadows and walls.....very nice....
Lauren~

~*~
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

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9 posted 2004-01-21 08:54 AM


I see you re-wrote it... and it came out well...

not bad at all for a mangey porch puppy with fleas...

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10 posted 2004-01-21 09:03 AM


Yes....soft and gentle..
I really didn't want it to end...
and it does deserve a poetic response which I don't have on the tip of my tongue at the moment.
Settle for a hug?
Hugs~

    In the midst of winter..
I found there lives within me,
    an invincible summer.

Seymour Tabin
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11 posted 2004-01-21 10:10 AM


Duncan
You've touched the waters of regret
And found the mirror is not wet.
Excellent my friend.

vandana
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12 posted 2004-01-21 10:14 AM


enjoyed
Christopher
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13 posted 2004-01-21 10:30 AM


will be back.
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14 posted 2004-01-21 01:20 PM


Be no echo of my sentiment
nor still stream blurred by touch
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With no pretense of selflessness
my gaze becomes your Narcissus

reflect then eyes
aesthetic bliss
in drowning.

----------------

then touch transcribes
my eyes delight
to braille.

-------------------


whoa.....
this is deeeeeeeeep(and very very cool)
the moth is gonna have to peel the layers on this one..read between the lines...
shake it and see what falls out
(besides the alliterations) heh  


How foolish must man be, not to be impressed by mountains and trees
not to be brought to his knees by the beauty of the sky and sea

Cherokee Lore

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15 posted 2004-01-21 06:43 PM


interesting write D!

pretentious to claim lack of same in the confirming gaze of unsubtle adoration upon illusive self-deprecatory indecisiveness.

i like. poem, "meaning," tone, language.

veddy, veddy nice.

Justbleu
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16 posted 2004-01-21 08:04 PM


This was creative and imaginative....I much enjoyed!!!
HI DUNCAN!!!!
Nicely done!!!!
Bridgette

"Somewhere, somehow, it should be possible to touch someone and never let go again.  To hold someone, not for a moment but forever." Unknown


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17 posted 2004-01-21 08:25 PM


and thus the blind can see...


ice
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18 posted 2004-01-21 09:10 PM


Excelent...:-)

Especially the ending lines...
enjoyed
________ice
  ><>

J.Samm
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19 posted 2004-01-21 09:35 PM


liked it! these are interesting lines...

"then touch transcribes
my eyes delight
to braille."


passing shadows
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20 posted 2004-01-22 03:41 AM



Christopher
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21 posted 2004-01-22 04:38 PM


one more time... i like this one.
nakdthoughts
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22 posted 2004-01-22 05:15 PM


reflect then eyes
aesthetic bliss
in drowning.


very nice...and
I love Seymours response

*s
M (the Alicethruglass part of me loves mirrors...)

Martie
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23 posted 2004-01-22 05:20 PM


Duncan

I liked all of this...the way and the meaning!

Severn
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24 posted 2004-01-23 06:38 AM


A touch of the classic in this one, D...

Suffice to say - I like it.

K

Patricia
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25 posted 2004-01-23 08:30 PM


I was hypnotized by this, Duncan.  I was so into this piece...I didn't want to come back...then my four year old yelled me out of the trance...Hmmm, best keep this one in the library for when the four year old is sleeping.

An exquisite writing!

Patricia

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