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Mistletoe Angel

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since 2000-12-17

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Portland, Oregon

0 posted 2005-03-12 01:08 AM

Learn To Forget
By: Noah Eaton
4/21/04

Turn your head,
from the martyrs and patriots, dear child,
patriotism is a scoundrel's game,
I fight for no one, we're citizens of the world,
and we're born to be wild.
Cover your ears,
from all these trivial reasons being sung of,
the willingness to kill and be killed,
from a fabricated real estate love...

I wish I didn't know now,
what I didn't know then,
fill your heart with the smell of nurseries,
and rest your light head,
children have no past, children have no future,
all that matters is the present, my friend,
break from this heart of clay,
and learn to forget...

Won't it a beautiful day,
when our government needs a yard sale,
to buy a war plane,
and we're all reluctant,
to seal up our childhood dreams,
like stacked Brillo boxes?
BREATHE A SKY,
free of surveillance and Thaliomide,
where children are born without limbs,
without hands that can reach for the sky...

I wish I didn't know now,
what I didn't know then,
fill your heart with the smell of nurseries,
and rest your light head,
children have no past, children have no future,
all that matters is the present, my friend,
break from this heart of clay,
and learn to forget...

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Come one, come all,
now we've gone too far,
only love is the way,
children, build your filiarchy to the stars,
come one, come all,
don't let their words discourage you,
look above and beyond the flag pole,
the world is your playground,
return to your roots...

I wish I didn't know now,
what I didn't know then,
fill your heart with the smell of nurseries,
and rest your light head,
children have no past, children have no future,
all that matters is the present, my friend,
break from this heart of clay,
and learn to forget...

The world will never be quiet,
till the patriot sings his last song,
so learn to forget...
The world will never be quiet,
till the patriot sings his last song,
so learn to forget...

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other"

Mother Teresa

Professor Gloom
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since 2000-07-23

Posts 3082
of Depression

1 posted 2005-03-12 07:08 AM

A wonderful mixed media presentation
A child-like wish
But wouldn’t we all be better if it could come true.

Enjoyed the read.

Gloom

Marshalzu

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since 2001-02-15

Posts 2681
Lurking

2 posted 2005-03-12 07:20 AM

Enjoyed

Andrew

NewEnglandlazurlu
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since 2002-01-04

Posts 7470
A Mountain Paradise

3 posted 2005-03-12 12:43 PM

Noah love, this is so heart touching. Love your words and the pictures.

I fight for no one, we're citizens of the world, and we're born to be wild.

How true, how true. If only your words could become truth.

huggles and luvs, Marti

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
–St. Francis of Assisi

Local Rebel
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since 1999-12-21

Posts 5767
Southern Abstentia

4 posted 2005-03-12 09:32 PM

from the moment one takes a side there is no peace --

the illustrations are spectacular Noah

Martie

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California

5 posted 2005-03-12 11:36 PM

Noah

You are so thought filled...this poem touched me with its truth and the beauty of the graphics. Thank you.

Nightshade

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since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

6 posted 2005-03-12 11:40 PM

Wonderfully written Noah.
hugs, Chris

"Nunc scio quit sit amor."
~ Virgil

Alwye

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Posts 3850
In the space between moments

7 posted 2005-03-13 12:41 PM

You're a wordsmith after my own heart, Noah.

This reminds me of a line from an Ani Difranco song-- "You have to believe that mercy has its own country, and that it's round and borderless..."

Peace to you, my friend.

~*Krista Lee Knutson*~

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
~Rabindranath Tagore

Earth Angel
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since 2002-08-27

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Realms of Light

8 posted 2005-03-13 10:57 PM

Noah, I am so thankful that the children of the world have a voice through yours!

The world is a better place because of your loving Light.

Love & Angel Light,
Linda

vandana

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since 1999-10-22

Posts 10463
USA

9 posted 2005-03-14 11:00 AM

liked it

sweetpoetess
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since 2005-02-27

Posts 428
Florida

10 posted 2005-03-14 11:51 AM

Awesome write

Poetry is beauty in words.

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