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Where is the river?
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Where is the river? |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa 
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Fingers barely touching trail like whispers down her cheeks back and forth searching for the river of her tears. Maybe lower to her chin, neck and fulsome breasts, and her fingers play softly, tenderly, between the folds of skin age ushered in one day. No wetness to attest to the presence of despair, no dried up river bed to show how much she cared, and her fingers travel, waist, belly, thighs, to the very centre of true womanhood. She pauses on the brink, perhaps the river flowed down, down, down, to where he one day lay unknowingly to open the floodgates of desire. Not now, not there, where are they then those accumulated tears and she turns from this reality to face the world of soul. “Watch out! A river flows!” screams the echo of her needs and she cowers in the shadows too exhausted to run from unfiltered emotion threatening to flood and obliterate surface composure. Immobile she stands remembering it all before silently detaching to live the way she must in total denial of … the echo of her needs. Fingers barely touching trail like whispers down her cheeks but she knows where rivers flow! |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Helen You capture the inner turmoils so well...with an empathy that most don't have. That is a blessing, but also a curse, I know. I sure do appreciate you and your poetry. This deserves more readers!  |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
this was so well done... in addition, it's where I've been for the past five years...which ponders many thoughts for me...but...the most credible ones are realizing in this time alone...who I am...knowing and liking me better, using the time wisely for self examination... I don't feel it denial but more so...great growth and perhaps preparation for what is to come next....so my point is...if this is about you...don't be to hard on yourself...you can't love another until you like the company you keep, and know that company, inside and out, your dreams, desires, needs...then you realize who will best complete the "we" that comes together compatible and mature. |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
a fantastic piece! |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
Martie - thank you so much. You say it all so much better than I ever could. Yes, empathy sure is a curse! LeeJ - Thank you! Yes, I do understand what you're saying and also look at it that way but I know myself inside out by now and still ... the river flows. Some things just need time and more time. Dixie - Thank you so much for the read. Much appreciated. |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Helen~ Today I came in search of soft thoughts afloat ... this is just that~ *Huglets* ~*Marge*~ ~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost, |
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mysticpoe Senior Member
since 2003-02-28
Posts 883 |
Talented my friend. The entire piece flowed without stumbbling once. Nice lines reveling towards a superb finish. Nice job here. wayne If nothing is something |
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