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Goodknight
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since 2002-06-15
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Ohio, USA

0 posted 2004-04-22 07:22 PM


I want so much to be alive
To reach out and touch the sky
To splash in rain
To roll in snow
To go where no one ever goes
To teach to learn
To laugh to cry
To touch again those who have died
To say to listen
To hear to smile
To take my life over many a mile
I want so much to be alive
To be with someone who holds my soul
To open myself
To let them know
All that there is of me and mine
To let them see and feel like the divine


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Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113
Canada eh.
1 posted 2004-04-22 07:40 PM


Paul m'friend..your writing has come a long way and this I really like..
wonderful flow and very uplifting...
Yes, just to feel.
~Smiles & Hugs, Nancy~

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

Susan
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since 2004-03-27
Posts 5104
walking the surreal
2 posted 2004-04-22 07:49 PM


I want so much to be alive
To reach out and touch the sky
To splash in rain
To roll in snow
To go where no one ever goes

I really like this.  What optimism towards life.  Nice.

Susan

Grover
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since 2004-01-27
Posts 1967
London, ON, Canada
3 posted 2004-04-22 08:00 PM


A very good poem... full of the zest for life!
Dark Angel
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since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095

4 posted 2004-04-22 08:06 PM


I want all that too...

Enjoyed.

What are you my god? You touch me like you are my god
What are you my twin? You affect me like you are my twin.

Go Alanis!


iliana
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since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434
USA
5 posted 2004-04-22 10:50 PM


Paul, this is a great one!      jo
pictureme
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since 2003-11-28
Posts 248
Ohio, USA
6 posted 2004-04-22 10:56 PM


Goodknight,
Very optimistic approach to your wants!
I thought the last line of the poem was awesome
and than I seen where you were from....OHIO...and I knew it was written from the heart of it all!
pictureme :-)

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577
displaced
7 posted 2004-04-23 02:32 AM


oh I understand this one well
Martie
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since 1999-09-21
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California
8 posted 2004-04-23 04:20 PM


Paul

You are full of a wonderful zest for living...it shows in this poem.  

Sadelite
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since 2003-10-11
Posts 2519

9 posted 2004-04-25 01:25 AM


Paul,
   You are so much alive and an inspiration!
Enjoyed this and saving it for a rainy day.  Thank you for this.
          Sadie

azblond
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since 1999-07-01
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The Steamy Desert
10 posted 2004-04-25 10:22 AM


What a great way to start any day!

Let my words fall first upon deaf ears before a closed mind...

Sadelite
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since 2003-10-11
Posts 2519

11 posted 2004-04-25 10:49 PM


Goodknight,
   This is irregular, but I've tried twice today to respond to "To Fill the Coffer", but to no avail.  My screen goes blank for quite some time when I press "post", so I'll leave a message here.  I had hoped to send the other one back up because I imagine there are others out there who have or have had similar feelings about work, and would rather be writing.  You expressed it well.
                 Sadie

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