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LeeJ
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0 posted 2005-01-14 07:12 AM


Can you hear the train of dreams?

Smoky fingers of machines?

Sitting like a group of students

Drawing pictures of some tickling buzz

Giggles of body breathe behind you

Vertigo wakes in a double bed

Trembling pause to almost still…still my love

Hurries home

Coasting North, painting bridges

Designing out a space somewhere

In a wildlife refuge, throwing its head back

Lights flashing in secret codes

Arcing across the sky

We fly aside of sea gulls

Heading out to sea

Night with its warm tendrils

Living off our heat, broader then being

Even circumstance becomes immediate

Generous deep sighs, our letters of staying alive

Understanding language river-like

Spending part of childhood

Looking for you….occasional doubts and losses

Now we laugh with voices of breakfast

Happy tones receive tourists exploring

A safe place of tender choices

Slow combing, long hair of drowning lips

Playing hide and seek in moon shadows

Preparing to begin a moment of life

Colors, shades, undone

Changing to white sound

Heaven rolling up to our feet, in creative ways

Promising poetic imagery

Sparking scent of intimacy

Flirting, smiling with flesh so interesting

So...of blazing hearts at any price

Birthplace of high minded destiny

Knowing our names and secret places


© Copyright 2005 Lee J. - All Rights Reserved
Sunshine
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Listening to every heart
1 posted 2005-01-14 07:18 AM



Your title reminded me
of one of my own...

and yet you diverted
with a gem...


Seymour Tabin
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2 posted 2005-01-14 07:30 AM


LeeJ
You got a good chunk of what's going on.
Good morning.

passing shadows
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displaced
3 posted 2005-01-14 08:55 AM


I wish I could have some of your inspiration Lee
JL
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4 posted 2005-01-14 02:55 PM


So well written and expressed!
Enjoyed this very much Lee J.

JL

DavePage
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5 posted 2005-01-14 03:00 PM


This needs a few re-reads.

It looks simple yet seems very complex.

It sounds like a typical Lee J twister.

Dave

iliana
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6 posted 2005-01-16 01:26 AM


All aboard!  Love this Lee.... *hugs* ....jo
MGROVES
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7 posted 2005-01-16 02:21 AM


a pleasure  and i actually understand


ThisDiamond
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8 posted 2005-01-16 08:17 PM


Knowing our names and secret places!

High country for sure!

Superb.
TD

VAS
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9 posted 2005-01-16 08:32 PM


So much imagery!!!

These are my favorite lines, favorite images:

Arcing across the sky

                        We fly aside of sea gulls

                        Heading out to sea

                        Night with its warm tendrils

Whether on the shoal or on the shore,
I'll seek the lighthouse evermore.

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