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wranx
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0 posted 2005-01-02 01:21 AM





Museums are no help at all
Never have been

They, churches, libraries
And other houses of Imponderabilia

Always leave me leaving
With more questions than answers

On a good day though
You can have one to yourself
Or nearly

With your footfalls and mutterings
Heard only by a disinterested guard

You can find yourself
In an anteroom

Staring into a glass box
Containing household bric a brac
From a time before man had a name

Pots, shards, fetishes, bones
And tools

And you are taken by one flint
In particular, from amid the jumble

Perfect, as if knapped by a jeweler
And unused, as if it were special

Perhaps it was a gift for another
An Elder
A Chief
A god?

Or, could it have been
The last such tool made to usher
In an age of Iron

In the great room, the ossuary
You’ll be standing alone, gazing

At the bones-made-stone
Of large and ancient creatures

Creatures, it seems to you
Embarrassed to be there

Unearthed, naked and pleading
For you to dress them again

But, you only walk away
Wondering, exactly, what it was

They turned their heads to see
Just before they were turned to salt

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iliana
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1 posted 2005-01-02 01:41 AM


Very much enjoyed the walk through the museum.....that's the feel of it for me, too.  Happy New Year, wranx!   ....jo
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2 posted 2005-01-02 02:03 AM


They forgot the cardinal rule:

"don't look back."



huggs m'yeti

and damn yer cute, too

(and you know what I'm talkin' 'bout)

babygirlwlove
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3 posted 2005-01-02 11:26 AM


love the way your mind wanders, wranx....

much love
and Happy 2005...
**babygirL**

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Seymour Tabin
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4 posted 2005-01-02 11:33 AM


wranx
Many a time I've thought the same.

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5 posted 2005-01-02 12:13 PM


I like this very much... and I agree... museums, etc... even churches... become different places when the crowds are gone and the distractions are silent. *S*
Sunshine
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6 posted 2005-01-02 12:55 PM


And you are taken by one flint
In particular, from amid the jumble

Perfect, as if knapped by a jeweler
And unused, as if it were special

Perhaps it was a gift for another
An Elder
A Chief
A god?

~*~

Sometimes we never know
but with our imagination,
thoughts might soar
into believabilities...

Thank you, yeti.

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7 posted 2005-01-02 02:31 PM


I love how you think and as a matter of fact, it's 2005, the year I tell all those I care about that I care, so, "Hey man you are a special breed!"
DavePage
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8 posted 2005-01-02 03:30 PM


Superb.

I loved doing this in London.

Now they are closing Libraries in San Francisco where the poor who cant afford charges get second best for a few more days.

Why are American's trying to destroy knowledge.

No-one can sit at a terminal day after day.

It has been known for years that it screws your eyes up.

Documents on the web is great but you need time and a place to read and Museums and Libraries were where you developed.

The Internet is where you research, steal and don't have to walk further than a bedroom.

Dave

Susan
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9 posted 2005-01-02 06:03 PM


Oh, I like this indeed

Give me a good museum to get lost in - would love to spend a good month or so in the Smithsonian - been to some of the biggies - such as the Louve-

Adn Libraries - oh what a wonder - especially the big old ones that have as much ambiance as they do curiosities

And book stores - the used ones - with two floors to meander

Love old grave yards too with their ancient stones and rune speak -

This was a wonderful poem - simply wonderful

My favorite part is about the bones wishing to be redressed - what an incredible thought-

Susan

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10 posted 2005-01-19 10:31 PM


Dive for pearls in the forum....surface with a wranx....

Open! Open! See, the beauty is right there, inside.

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11 posted 2005-01-20 09:20 PM


"Perfect, as if knapped by a jeweler
And unused, as if it were special"

I have found and collected quite a few of these over the years. They still invoke the same kind of wonder.

An obsidian poem from an ancestor that says, "See, I really was here."

Thanks for the write, man.

CB 8)

"If at first an idea is not absurd, there is no hope for it."
Albert Einstein

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12 posted 2005-01-21 10:39 PM


very nice    enjoyed


Aenimal
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13 posted 2005-01-22 02:23 PM


what more can i say, at this point you know what i think of your writing.
Dark Angel
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14 posted 2005-01-22 08:02 PM


smilin at ya Bro, this is truly an amazing write.

Fantastic!

Mxx

and i knew in the crystalline knowledge of you
~Buckingham/Nicks

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15 posted 2005-01-22 10:05 PM


Great write!

~Alli~

Happy 2005!

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