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The Towers Down
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The Towers Down |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass 
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The Towers Down there is no answer but the question, neither hint nor bolt of reason shining through the smoke and grit the glass, the steel rebuff the eye, reject all answers but the one the mind will never take there is no answer, please let there be no answer let no hope arise here suck imagination dry and never let the eye put back the random beams, put back the shattered secrets of the steel the glass grit showered out into the smoke of it, oh let them lie here mute and real because there is no answer but to stop to stare to ask the answer question, and to turn away from a silent, empty sky From Reflections.... Somehow it seems more pressing this year, more intensely necessary to express the feeling. I don't know why. |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Well expressed...James |
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A Romantic Heart Member Ascendant
since 1999-09-03
Posts 5496Forever In Your Heart |
I agree ratleader! You did an excellent job putting words into a poem, like pieces of a puzzle, your words fit snuggly together to form the great picture inside the readers minds... ~Love and Hugs  Come,love all of me, mind, body, spirit..feel my passion, taste of me, be filled completely! |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
I understand, and agree |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
Certain pictures can always make me cry the same silent tears that slid down my face as I watched the unthinkable... so can your words... And you're absolutely right... the library I'm in doesn't have remembrance displays this year... but I feel that need, too. Thank you, my friend... thank you. |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
sigh...yes, not forgotten. (I was watching this special, and I didn't realize just how large ground zero actually is---seven building, they said. ) You write so eloquently, Ed. I thought at first this would be a dual voices poem--but is that too gimmicky? And yep, I owe you an e mail--that little challenge proved to be maddening to me. And thanks for posting this, in honor of our lost friends. hugs |
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Ericc Member Elite
since 2003-01-31
Posts 4178 |
Writing at its finest Ed. Eric |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Perhaps because it is an election year, and there is so much emotion already, Ed...perhaps that is why. Point being...it's a good poem, and I am sorry I didn't see it sooner. Thank you, Sir. |
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Greeneyes 
since 2000-09-09
Posts 9903In Your Poetic Mind |
sigh...thank you  I don’t want the world to see me |
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miscellanea Member Elite
since 2004-06-24
Posts 4060OH |
Ed, Yes, it does seem more pressing--maybe like Sunshine suggested, election year! We can't forget the past. Sometimes, it surely would be more fun to do that, but... history is our teacher. Her lesson plan? Now that's a topic in itself... Well expressed, my friend. miscellanea |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
...perhaps never an answer, but let no one stop asking the question. Excellent reminder! |
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Martie
Moderator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Ed Time sometimes takes things and makes them smaller or larger, depending....this we need to remember and never forget.  |
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