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1slick_lady
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standing on a shadow's lace

0 posted 2004-04-15 09:17 PM



Bridge Tender

I saw you
as I slipped
across the creaking
wood you pushed
me onto striking
match in hand
that became the
blaze behind me
and now you
keep calling me
from the bank
where you reside
and wonder why
there is distance



© Copyright 2004 Helen Chambers - All Rights Reserved
Copperbell
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1 posted 2004-04-15 11:36 PM


oh. I like the flow of this, it led me along a little... then I got it
Kaoru
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where the wild flowers grow
2 posted 2004-04-15 11:57 PM


This makes me feel faint, I am afraid of the height you take me sometimes.
passing shadows
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3 posted 2004-04-16 03:03 AM


they just don't get it sometimes, do they?
Grover
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4 posted 2004-04-16 03:32 PM


A master of metaphor... this is great!
iliana
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5 posted 2004-04-16 05:04 PM


Helen, you're such a talent!  
Enchantress
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Canada eh.
6 posted 2004-04-16 05:58 PM


WOW!!  Excellent write here lady...much enjoyed.
~Hugs and smiles to you Helen~

To have lived the dream of a love so true...
   is to have seen a glimpse of heaven.

Dark Angel
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7 posted 2004-04-16 08:06 PM


Wow...deep.

I always enjoy the messages within your poetry.

This one is a keeper.

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)

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8 posted 2004-05-09 09:24 PM



iliana
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9 posted 2004-05-09 10:02 PM


Ouch.  Ouch.  Ouch.  I would keekp them wondering, too!  Great metaphor.   ...jo
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10 posted 2004-05-09 10:09 PM


Helen...This hit me like a knife in the heart. You sure the title shouldn't be Burning Bridges?  Paul

~~To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you~~
Paul

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