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1slick_lady
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standing on a shadow's lace

0 posted 2004-07-20 10:15 AM



I Am Stained Dark


did you just want to touch
the outlines of the tattoo
colors underneath bleed
of the true outline of me
could you slip beneath
the scars and bruises
to where the tender is
a place of velvet I hide
incase another touch hurts
needling me to death
stained I can be so dark
in a design I did not pick

"be prepared to bleed"  Joni Mitchell

© Copyright 2004 Helen Chambers - All Rights Reserved
LeeJ
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since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296

1 posted 2004-07-20 10:22 AM


a person with patience, and understanding of self will...if he possesses compassion not for himself, but for others...and is a man of complete fidelity to self...which will flower every life he touches.  

God bless and good luck...and a question we should all ask ourselves according to our own individual needs.

Cpat Hair
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2 posted 2004-07-20 11:02 AM


complex patterns we get inked into our souls.. some bleed more than others underneath..

interesting imagery...

Dark Stranger
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since 2001-03-19
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3 posted 2004-07-20 11:15 AM


I am stained dark too
and it didn't hurt me
shhhh well it didn't hurt me too much
shhhh well anyway
I do like the tattoos

enjoyed it ms slick

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26
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displaced
4 posted 2004-07-20 12:03 PM


understand this
Susan Caldwell
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since 2002-12-27
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5 posted 2004-07-20 12:05 PM


  wonderfully said!

"cast me gently into the morning, for the night has been unkind"
~Sarah McLachlan~

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