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LeeJ
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0 posted 2005-02-15 01:34 PM


Keep me timeless
As solitude standing
Like deep sea coral
In an elementary world
Dreaming underwater haikus
Mending screens
Chasing away nightmares
Milky humid haze
Handing out a few extra days
Swimming in cerulean spread tail skies

I found swallows harvesting
Thin dusting of dry golden powder
Cross pollinating the surface
With an occasional splash from leaping fish
Dorsal knifing the surface
From an endless whirlwind
Slowly rising caress
Direct sun smiles warmth…
Stepping me nearer to maligned grace
Turning me inside out
To a summer endless
Dominating warm tingling sensations
Positive energy
Leaving go of thoughts
Touching a connection
Floating harmonious
And steady as a sun doth rise

The town had gone
Only front steps remain
Steep golden staircase
Talking of air and passwords
Everyone knows…
Mating with some earthy thing
Like the light of dusk
Eternally noticing
Timid poems…with no critique
Internal fires
Like an eagle’s sprawled wings

Whispers of survivors
Wide lipped basins
Running over with burning water
Blue pools of a garden
With the keepers lifetime blood
A luminous flask
Like the red planet
Topped with all that time means

To dry as different windows
In some other day….
Will power exposes her breasts
Wave motion striding in crowds
Invisible, with meaning

Reading daily horoscopes
Like colored stone
The nightingale flows into words
Sooths, dreams, visits my room
Incredibly still & gentle
Caress
Like air pearls with eyes
Leeward swells
Bursting in violet air

Ohhhh…..
I sit upon the shore
Recognizing a certain reference
To convenience
Because it associates my mind
With crossed legs
Of a nude soul
Private confessional of bones
Where white candles the heart
Sifting cinders of longer rhymes
Central to purifying flame
Floating, floating, floating
Whispering my name

Images dominating
Mystery filled eyes
I color pebbles, unfailing dance
Sensing the image
Knowing time without fear
Understanding majestic parts
I am the worktable
Who can swim
In time sense……

You are there


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passing shadows
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displaced
1 posted 2005-02-15 01:45 PM


so many good lines here
each one could be a poem itself


Seymour Tabin
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Tamarac Fla
2 posted 2005-02-15 02:13 PM


LeeJ
You could make about a dozen poems from this one. Enjoyed

Susan
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walking the surreal
3 posted 2005-02-15 02:56 PM


Enjoyed this greatly - the imagery and the feel of the words tumbling through my mind - especially like underwater haiku -

Hugs - Susan

If I wander far enough, long enough, will I finally know . . .

garysgirl
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4 posted 2005-02-15 03:08 PM


Goodness, Lee J, now YOU are a poet.
There are so many excellent parts of
this.
It's just beautiful.
Hugs,


Earth Angel
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Realms of Light
5 posted 2005-02-15 03:08 PM


You'd win any race with the speed with which you swim! ~ and write! lol The images keep coming faster and faster in whirling technicolor!

Enjoyed this panoramic view of your world!

Love & Light,
Linda

JL
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6 posted 2005-02-15 03:58 PM


“Ohhhh…..
I sit upon the shore
Recognizing a certain reference
To convenience
Because it associates my mind
With crossed legs
Of a nude soul
Private confessional of bones
Where white candles the heart
Sifting cinders of longer rhymes
Central to purifying flame
Floating, floating, floating
Whispering my name”

Nice, a really nice write.  I was here on this shore.
Beautiful and pictographic.



Ericc
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7 posted 2005-02-15 04:01 PM


Great write!

Eric

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