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1slick_lady
Member Ascendant

since 2000-12-22

Posts 6088
standing on a shadow's lace

0 posted 2004-01-24 03:48 PM

The Domino Theory

you stacked
them all
so carefully
in neat rows
my black marks
numbered sins
in each of them
against me
then lined
them up
and watched
me topple

Mistletoe Angel

Member Empyrean

since 2000-12-17

Posts 32816
Portland, Oregon

1 posted 2004-01-24 03:53 PM

(sigh) I can't decide if this is more upbeat or downbeat, dearest friend, at first it felt sad to me but then I thought of it as repenting and watching all the sins be baptized away! (big angel hugs) Either way this is wonderful, sweet friend, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Helen, thank you for sharing!

May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

"You'll find something that's enough to keep you
But if the bright lights don't receive you
You should turn yourself around and come back home" MB20

muted

Member Elite

since 2004-01-15

Posts 2949
Elapsing, Eclipsing, Evolving

2 posted 2004-01-24 03:54 PM

its sad to think people are "lining us up for the fall"..hurts to fall by the hand of someone you love and trust..

~Dawn

Marge Tindal

Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

3 posted 2004-01-24 04:33 PM

OneSlick~
oooooh ... this one hurts~
It's a game nobody wins~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram <))><

noles1@totcon.com

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

4 posted 2004-01-24 05:15 PM

Sad, but so very well painted.
Love, Margherita

Dark Angel
Member Patricius

since 1999-08-04

Posts 10095

5 posted 2004-01-24 05:17 PM

I'm sorry you are hurting... I felt this one..very well expressed.

Maree

Beauty of the world which is soon to perish has two edges, one of laughter and one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
(by Virginia Woolf)

Kaoru

Member Elite

since 2003-06-07

Posts 3892
where the wild flowers grow

6 posted 2004-01-24 08:33 PM

Wonderful metaphor, H.

Brilliant.

Tim
Senior Member

since 1999-06-08

Posts 1794

7 posted 2004-01-26 09:17 PM

direct and to the point, well expressed.

Krawdad
Member Elite

since 2001-01-03

Posts 2597

8 posted 2004-01-26 09:40 PM

h,

I like this.
I wonder, is there more metaphor here than it first appears?
A "Domino" is also "a hooded cape worn by clergymen", "a hooded rob worn with an eye mask at a masquerade" ("the mask itself"), or "one wearing a robe or mask".
Very interesting.

btw,
I have a set of ivory colored dominoes with dots painted in lush colors . . .
Care to play a game sometime?

e

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

9 posted 2004-03-21 10:10 PM

how'd I miss this?

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

10 posted 2004-03-21 10:20 PM

Don't topple until I lay at your feet, my friend, to cushion your fall. . .

jwesley

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