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ice
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0 posted 2004-12-07 08:50 AM



Daydream-streams of consciousness
Rise up in flood, from old-creek beds
Onto a gray, fissured plane;
Overflows it with disjointed thoughts,
Then pastes them on the inner eye.

Green and blue and aqua-jade:
Water colors drape retired actors;
Old scripts they read again,
Though their lines are always garbled.

The ghosts of past times haunt,
People, places, things, move fast across
The space abyss, out of focus
Without goal, they come flashing;
Stored, subconscious signs,
Across the conscious mind.


Question:

For what reason, calls the prompter
(Raise again, the dusty curtain)
And reopen-- those long closed plays?


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Sunshine
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1 posted 2004-12-07 08:59 AM


Question:

For what reason, calls the prompter
(Raise again, the dusty curtain)
And reopen-- those long closed plays?

~*~

Ah, so that tinseled, tenured lines of time
plucked from history and man's mind
might still lend to us, them without patient ears
reason to continue making history
so that in ten one hundred years
such a question might be phrased, yet again...




Seymour Tabin
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2 posted 2004-12-07 09:01 AM


ice
No other reason than your unconcious asking.
Have a happy. PS Good write.

Enchantress
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3 posted 2004-12-07 09:12 AM


Another excellent write from your magic pen Ford.
Very much enjoyed.
Hugs~Nancy

~ Let peace begin with me... ~

LeeJ
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4 posted 2004-12-07 09:31 AM


The ghosts of past times haunt,
People, places, things, move fast across
The space abyss, out of focus
Without goal, they come flashing,
Stored, subconscious signs
Across the conscious mind.


Extrodinaryily written and felt


ice
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5 posted 2004-12-07 06:32 PM


Karilea...See more...Nancy...LeeJ

Thank you for your thoughtful replies...

This poem came to mme when out of the blue I saw a stop sign pass by, one I went thru about 10 years ago....(no accident) it really shook me up at the time though..the occasion resurfaces from time to time, for no apparent reason..

__________ice/ford
   ><>

froggy
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since 2003-06-23
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6 posted 2004-12-07 06:37 PM


Ford,
  Many memories to come my mind reading
this.
  I really like this one.
Good read and a great poem.

:-)

Within this heart you'll find love

Susan
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7 posted 2004-12-07 08:17 PM


Understood -

Susan

Happiness isn't something that happens to you, it's created from within you.  Joy is a state of mind.

ThisDiamond
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8 posted 2004-12-07 09:18 PM


Funny how the unfinished thought continues to knock the door of awakening...if only to place finality in a gentle touch at the gate of goodbye.
Liked this.
TD

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