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BluesSerenade
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By the Seaside

0 posted 2005-04-05 12:04 PM



~*~

I do not take you lightly
rather I touch and trace
with shaking fingertips
the searing heat
as smoke streams from my lips,
and kindles a crazy kind of love.

As silence whispers with intent
coughing up my words, untamed.
Forthcoming and misconstrued,
caught in the act
of licking at the flames.

I am she who fans the breeze
then looks the other way.
Rising with each breath
painting shadows on the wall
that might mean something more than this.
I have no shame.

No, I do not take you lightly
or make believe that it is easy
that I might temper you in the moonlight
or consume the glowing embers
of desire passing by.
But I can close my eyes and lie beside the edge,
and reach for you in dreams .

You see, I've burned this way forever
for as long as I can remember.
But I am not so brazen
that I might take you lightly
and dare to play with fire,
or make a promise I can't keep.

~*~

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Janet Marie
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Posts 18554

1 posted 2005-04-05 12:24 PM


that I might temper you in the moonlight
or consume the glowing embers
of desire passing by.
But I can close my eyes and lie beside the edge,
and reach for you in dreams .

You see, I've burned this way forever
for as long as I can remember.
But I am not so brazen
that I might take you lightly
and dare to play with fire,
or make a promise I can't keep.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

WOOO HOOO -- MOTH ANTHEM!!!!!!
this one so goes into me mothy library...
smoke and ash....oh yeah... yaya

It's only words and words are all I have to take your heart away.


soul drifter
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since 2004-09-08
Posts 711
Colorado
2 posted 2005-04-05 01:09 AM


Wonderful. So many lines I loved...incredibly well-written.

"Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, and tell them; and the truth of truths is love." --Philip James Bailey

Dark Stranger
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since 2001-03-19
Posts 13631
West Coast
3 posted 2005-04-05 06:48 AM


hmmm bluzzzzy does it again...

enjoyed it !!

EagleOne
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Posts 2829
Between a laugh and a tear...
4 posted 2005-04-05 08:30 AM


I enjoyed this, complexity is the word that springs to mind, but that’s just my interpretation. Well done, take care!

"A spring shower was cause to run
Until you twirled me in the rain" ~ BDC

Gentle Spirit
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Posts 13989

5 posted 2005-04-05 08:53 AM


You see, I've burned this way forever
for as long as I can remember.
But I am not so brazen
that I might take you lightly
and dare to play with fire,
or make a promise I can't keep.


DS said it hon....You have done it again,
and this just reached write in....
and settled within me with a smile...

Luv ya lady!


I really want to care,
I want to feel something,
let me dig a little deeper
nah, still nothing~
my give a DAMN is busted. Jodee

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113
Canada eh.
6 posted 2005-04-05 09:01 AM


OH WOW!!
I'm not even going to try and choose my fav lines here Bluesy!!
A very blunt, yet understanding write.
Excellent!!
Hugs~Nancy

For it was not into my ear you whispered
But into my heart
It was not my lips you kissed
But my soul

Ratleader
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7 posted 2005-04-05 09:24 AM


Whew -- did somebody just turn up the heat in here??

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nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29
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Between the Lines
8 posted 2005-04-05 09:27 AM


always reading you and missing the Blues~~

hugs and much love
M

Midnitesun
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Gaia
9 posted 2005-04-05 09:40 AM


"I am she who fans the breeze
then looks the other way."

kinda like a Santa Ana wind

nice imagery, bluesy

BluesSerenade
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By the Seaside
10 posted 2005-04-05 11:46 AM


I am so pleased, thank you everyone!
suthern
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Louisiana
11 posted 2005-04-05 03:38 PM


ROFL @ JM's response. *G*

But I can close my eyes and lie beside the edge,
and reach for you in dreams .

These are lines I could have written... wish I'd written... but know I wouldn't have written as well. *S* Excellent write, dear lady! *S*

miscellanea
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since 2004-06-24
Posts 4060
OH
12 posted 2005-04-05 03:54 PM


Blues,
  First, let me thank you for the sweet comment you left on my post.  As for your post, I am very impressed! I really like how you figuratively incorporated fire thoroughout.  Very cohesive.  On a personal note, I understood this well but couldn't have put the idea in words if I tried.  Loved your title and words!  Couldn't agree more--I guess some things are better brushed aside.    

            misce

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