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Greeneyes
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In Your Poetic Mind

0 posted 2004-10-11 09:52 PM



You lit your cigarette
walked to the window

turned in half pose --

"do you remember how vivid

orchids look after rain?

their color alive"


I wanted to – to feel that alive again

I remember watching the smoke rise
from your mouth, almost as though
you were burning words into air    

another moment of embrace
between layers ----to softness as it dances
beneath  us

maybe in

reflections of how fingers touched
the pale yellow  sliding along  
windowsills

and I would tell you what its like --
            real silence--

but I cant describe it here

beautiful and damaged

the way:

water trembles upon the petals
   these  petals made for words

kissing the sound of water

as if this existed just for me

before  rain washes  the color away

I tried to write about you   once
these  words  already written
for you in     faded ink


so I just smile and
remember:


to softness as it danced beneath  us

Le Gardien de Mes Mots


~~*~~
Read between the lines
look deep into each word
and you will understand the
depth of my soul (GE)
~~**~~

© Copyright 2004 Lauren~ - All Rights Reserved
Larry C
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1 posted 2004-10-11 09:59 PM


Tender words to ponder...nice.

If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again.

Aenimal
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the ass-end of space
2 posted 2004-10-11 10:03 PM


Stunning L, simply stunning
Duncan
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3 posted 2004-10-11 11:22 PM


"and I would tell you what its like --
            real silence--

but I cant describe it here

beautiful and damaged

the way:
water trembles upon the petals
   these  petals made for words

kissing the sound of water

as if this existed just for me

before  rain washes  the color away

I tried to write about you   once
these  words  already written
for you in     faded ink"


For now...this is an incredible bit of writing Loopy.  I'll be back...  


iliana
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4 posted 2004-10-12 12:39 PM


This really flows, Lauren.  Just beautiful.  I missed wishing you happy birthday.  I hope it was a good one.  *hugs* ......jo
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5 posted 2004-10-12 06:09 AM


fantabulous Lauren.

Maree

cuz fate is not just whose cooking smells good
but which way the wind blows

~ani difranco~

Contabo
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6 posted 2004-10-12 08:28 AM


To me, as I read this, I felt like I was in the middle of a great novel.

I wish you could take this and plant it in the center of about 20 chapters!!


I would read every word.


Contabo

babygirlwlove
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7 posted 2004-10-12 08:28 AM


wow...this carves deeply into the soul...

niiiice...

**babygirL**

Gentle Spirit
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8 posted 2004-10-12 08:55 AM


kissing the sound of water

as if this existed just for me

before  rain washes  the color away

I tried to write about you   once
these  words  already written
for you in     faded ink


so I just smile and
remember:


Lovely L~ ....so precious these words.

The greatest beauty on earth, is
found in the hearts of those
who love....

littlewing
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9 posted 2004-10-12 08:57 AM


God, Lauren, this could be a screenplay.
It blew me away . . .
the silence, that is.

What a beautiful intro.


Enchantress
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Canada eh.
10 posted 2004-10-12 09:05 AM


Your writing is beyond compare Lauren.
Time to publish a book I would say.
Love ya pretty lady~

~Autumn..the year's last, loveliest smile.~

Dark Stranger
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11 posted 2004-10-12 11:17 AM


lady with sad eyes
and mittens on
to keep her hands warm
writes to her soul
and leaves the door open
she is lovely
well penned lady lauren

Susan Caldwell
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12 posted 2004-10-12 03:58 PM


Beautiful Lauren.  

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

serenity blaze
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13 posted 2004-10-12 04:50 PM


You just keep getting better and better Lauren.



You have a way of telling truth gently and I admire that very much.

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14 posted 2004-10-12 10:33 PM


The world is shopworn....and so are we....but there is great beauty all the same. Some of it, like this, is found in Greeneyes' poetry.

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Sunshine
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Listening to every heart
15 posted 2004-10-12 10:43 PM


I remember watching the smoke rise
from your mouth, almost as though
you were burning words into air

~*~

I remember moments like this...

Lauren?  Do you have any idea how much I appreciate you not only as a poet...but as a person?


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16 posted 2004-10-12 11:30 PM


Lauren, I felt I was watching a movie from the 40's and that is a good thing, quality.  I was "in wow" hope all is well.
Janet Marie
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17 posted 2004-10-12 11:37 PM


I remember watching the smoke rise
from your mouth, almost as though
you were burning words into air    

=======================================

and you scultp words into poetry
lovely lovely poetry

I would love to live as a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.

~Fluent~
John O'Donohue


wranx
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18 posted 2004-10-12 11:49 PM


What all those people up there said?


Yep!
This is ALL that. A stellar write!

suthern
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19 posted 2004-10-13 04:07 PM


I tried to write about you   once
these  words  already written
for you in     faded ink


so I just smile and
remember:

Lordie, gal... this is one where every line sinks right into a person's soul... I could have copied any part and been spotlighting excellence!!! But these lines... they touched most. *S*

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