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Krawdad
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since 2001-01-03

Posts 2597

0 posted 2004-05-06 01:58 AM

          Rock Paper Pen

          I ought to have been a railroad bum,
          I think,
          when again I hear a freight passing
          through town, heading west, mostly
          empty.
          I might have left on the C&NW or the
          Milwaukee Road or any number of other
          lines we have since plowed into history and
          nearly forgotten.
          The sound of the crossinghorn triggers
          one of those out-of-body memories
          that transports me.
          You know the kind.
          This one calls up the unprejudiced
          eyes and ears of a not yet young man
          riding on cross-country rails,
          with a ticket.
          Such a trip happens only once and
          vivid though it was, I followed other
          roads.
          Adventure is in my pen now and travels
          cross the page.
          I can sit here on this winter chilled
          boulder in the warming spring sunshine
          and watch the flutter of thin bark,
          tatter-peeling from a paper birch
          younger than me.
          I could lay my ink down there, black on
          white, and send the papered words
          floating down this Mississippi River.
          And maybe you would find them adrift
          and read them like the life lines of
          a washed-up bum.
          But then I would not see the wind catch
          there or hear its rhyme before it
          ripples across the lake and is gone.

               ©   050504

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

1 posted 2004-05-06 02:26 AM

no, you should have been the engineer

Kaoru

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since 2003-06-07

Posts 3892
where the wild flowers grow

2 posted 2004-05-06 02:46 AM

This is beautiful.

I am glad I inspired something better.

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

3 posted 2004-05-06 09:43 AM

...       But then I would not see the wind catch
          there or hear its rhyme before it
          ripples across the lake and is gone.

~*~

I'm so glad you take the time
to share with us - you.

Cpat Hair

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since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

4 posted 2004-05-06 09:53 AM

bravo sir... bravo

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

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California

5 posted 2004-05-06 10:13 AM

Krawdad

"But then I would not see the wind catch
          there or hear its rhyme before it
          ripples across the lake and is gone."

So many choices, and they may all be the right one.  Enjoyed this much!

inkedgoddess
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since 2002-11-19

Posts 7392
Ohio

6 posted 2004-05-06 10:23 AM

i felt your journey as i read the words that
wander within you

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

7 posted 2004-05-06 11:23 AM

Very very much enjoyed the journey with you Kraw.
Excellent write.
Hugs~

~ Lost in you, I found myself. ~

iliana
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since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

8 posted 2004-05-06 12:02 PM

I enjoyed this out-of-body journey!

RMW
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since 2001-03-21

Posts 1424

9 posted 2004-05-06 02:25 PM

Krawdad .......... Trains are special. I sometimes think that I moved just to be near the trains. Wonderful. Bob

1slick_lady
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since 2000-12-22

Posts 6088
standing on a shadow's lace

10 posted 2004-05-06 06:07 PM

sir,
you inspire
me
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