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I Write In Sand
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I Write In Sand |
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RSWells Member Elite
since 2001-06-17
Posts 2533
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When I go I plan to take you along, tucked like a football in the left crook arm, keeping the right free to stiff arm whoever tries to tackle us in the overtime of death It will seem like a headlock to you no doubt, in your ash soot dissolution, as though extradited and in the custody of the one who bailed you out from the twenty-three year confinement in the body bodega-crematorium (such a sweet word for mote dry leavings). The last person you’d expect to carry you. I, who’d not attended the last lip-service, the one everyone walked away from leaving you to settle in that coffee can until I learned of it decades later. I who’d specifically been willed “not 1 penny,” the one you’d call “Sluggo” towards your end for the one punch that took 17 years to throw. But I liked the nickname, earned it and will keep that strong arm free should anyone choose to knock politely on our horizontal door. I feel it won’t be too long now because I write furiously in sand, on paper at the bottom of an hourglass Poets against the war is redundant |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
yes, he probably would be surprised then again, perhaps not, Sluggo |
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Gentle Spirit Member Patricius
since 2000-10-09
Posts 13989 |
and I for one hope you keep writing furiously Richard.. just keep writing. Its good for you and great for us.  |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
Amazing how life takes turns isn't it, and I am the proud holder of a coffee can myself whose destiny is yet undecided.  The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Just don't let your sand get too close to water... not just yet. |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
Doing what's right, being true to yourself....those are two of the three things that make a man, a man. Having the compassion to feel another's need and be bound by it, whether it means suffering yourself or picking up the ashes when everyone else has turned away, is the third...the mere fact that you wrote this poem, says it's there in you too. ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
Richard, metaphorically strong piece. And such a message, one I sense to be a personal one of a personal experience. Sometimes they just don't understand, do they? |
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*Alli4000*
since 2004-03-21
Posts 3188The World of Poetry |
Amazing write.... ~Alli~ *AIM = Alli4000* Journal! |
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RSWells Member Elite
since 2001-06-17
Posts 2533 |
Thank you all for your notice and encouragement. It makes it easier to keep bleeding on these pages, the deeper, darker blood that is closer to the essence, not the pink foam of the surface. Ratleader, if that isn't the best comment I've ever received, it sure is close. Thanks Poets against the war is redundant |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
Your poetry always evokes many feelings ~ and results in several reads. I appreciate your strength, courage, wisdom and yet there is a sensitive vulnerable side that simmers beneath the surface that is also very appealing. You are a poet in every sense of the word. God bless you, Sluggo Man!  Love & Light, Linda |
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