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Dreaming’s Just The Rent We Have To Pay To Stay Alive |
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icebox Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383in the shadows 
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I don’t have amazing grace, though I have walked on pathways most would shun, I was born to be forgotten in a life that always turned upon the smallest dime. It is sad to think a god created man so wrapped in mystery only heaven ever really could know why. I guess it takes a god to get away with such a crime. I want to write an old fashioned love poem, the kind that always comes out as a song, but every time I try, somewhere back behind my mind’s eye everything gets bent, and comes out wrong. Maybe if I’d lived a life more wholesome, I could look at love without a jaundiced eye and write in simple flowery words and soft rhymes, but somehow I would always question, “Why?” Somewhere in each dusty dark high ceilinged room, with cold winds blowing in through cracks in time, where memories are jammed into the joints between the stones, and everything gets tangled up with thoughts and bones and tattered rags from other rhymes, the petals seem to fall right off the bloom. ©2005 by icebox |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
quote: It's proof god has a sense of humor: Think of it, he invents light and matter, goes to all the effort of balling-together stars and putting planets around them for trillions of light-years in all directions, picks one planet to be the center of it all, makes life and all the nuances of spirit that go with it, makes angels to sing about it somewhere along the way....and then after all that he crowns his creation with his grandest most glorious triumph of all..... ....and it's US..... If that ain't a sense of humor, there's no such thing! ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> ______________Ratleader______________ [This message has been edited by Ratleader (02-20-2005 09:34 PM).] |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
icebox I beg to differ with you....you DO have amazing grace.  |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
I damn sure agree |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
icebox There is no question and there is no answer. But you have the obtion to think as you may. To laugh or cry. |
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inkedgoddess Member Rara Avis
since 2002-11-19
Posts 7392Ohio |
Maybe if I’d lived a life more wholesome, I could look at love without a jaundiced eye and write in simple flowery words and soft rhymes, but somehow I would always question, “Why?” nah,wholesome,shmolesome you lived you learned you leave you return |
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1slick_lady Member Ascendant
since 2000-12-22
Posts 6088standing on a shadow's lace |
maybe it is that you have... grace amazing |
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James_A_Fraser Senior Member
since 2003-09-03
Posts 972Out Making Anticlines |
Yes -- you do have grace, I'm sure of it. It's a gift, you know, and very often we aren't even aware its been given. ~~J |
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Opoetry4me Member
since 2002-10-11
Posts 126Dixon, Ky USA |
Ice-There was no crime here and my friend you do have Amazing Grace.  Dara Beth |
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latearrival Member Ascendant
since 2003-03-21
Posts 5499Florida |
icebox, You are Amazing Grace. You are A preacher and a teacher, with more right to say than "they". sincerly, marty |
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Kaoru
since 2003-06-07
Posts 3892where the wild flowers grow |
always something i come back to read, ice... |
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Susan Member Ascendant
since 2004-03-27
Posts 5104walking the surreal |
Sometimes we wonder, don't we? But then deep down we want to believe in grace - you write it well, my friend - S If I wander far enough, long enough, will I finally know . . . |
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urdarbrunn Junior Member
since 2004-04-09
Posts 10 |
Maybe if I’d lived a life more wholesome, I could look at love without a jaundiced eye and write in simple flowery words and soft rhymes, but somehow I would always question, “Why?” Wholesome by who's definiton?  I enjoying learning your life through your poetry. I'm still around |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
You need not use flowery words, dear amazing poet ~ for when you write, you gift your readers with the opening of a lotus blossom.  EA |
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Susan Caldwell Member Rara Avis
since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348Florida |
"I was born to be forgotten" You couldn't be more wrong...  "cast me gently into the morning, for the night has been unkind" |
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littlewing Member Rara Avis
since 2003-03-02
Posts 9655New York |
I could look at love without a jaundiced eye and write in simple flowery words and soft rhymes, please, no icey . . . Your perspective is just fine. It is that perspective that allows us to realize something good when we have it . . . |
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BluesSerenade Member Patricius
since 2001-10-23
Posts 10549By the Seaside |
I don’t have amazing grace, though I have walked on pathways most would shun, I was born to be forgotten in a life that always turned upon the smallest dime. But you write so fine, icebox. Make no mistake, your pen is alive and well. Your insight is uncanny and very meaningful to me. Life is hard, and you've got lots of company my man! Bless you, dear heart!! |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
I want to write an old fashioned love poem, the kind that always comes out as a song, ~*~ Oh, so do I...so let's dream on...we both want to live for a long, long time... |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
Never fails - I see your name and absolutely enjoy every word. A good write Ice. What's past is prologue. |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
now that I've read this four times, I guess it's time to reply the rent always seems too high until you face the option of homelessness |
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