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LeeJ
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0 posted 2005-06-27 08:07 AM


old pewter becomes a listening booth
for sublime mists of enlargement
golden laughter of ice-melts
smiling, effortless balance
like the qualities of a hero
eating grape leaves of perception
whose verse can make rocks!
but a step in a struggle to be reborn
like the little eye in everywhere
lapping at our feet
without explanation

backwater drop, licks innocence
battered by the blows of vocation
in stiff footsteps, not two feet away
malaise echoes for one superhuman ocean
deepened flights, flushed with blood
carry some darkness
which we lie down with

but in a cascade of deep blue chairs
and late nights
i exist beyond the gaze of summer shadows
drowning in violin mountain springs
rising up to smolder serene
washing rooms with light
pulling an all nighter in the breakfast chain
where i ponder clear fast moving streams
leaving a scent of daffodils
tickling me to death

“is there any better tool”?  i ask
green leaves stain my fingers
i’m amazed at how lawn chairs drift
into nothingness
becoming candles
of even tide
that’s the kind of life this is, ya know?
with forearms like soccer moms
foregoing fear, it
closes it’s eyes & sets me
at the entrance of some afternoon


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Seymour Tabin
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Tamarac Fla
1 posted 2005-06-27 08:14 AM


LeeJ
Well that kind of stuff happens. Good morning sweet. Have a good one.

Marge Tindal
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Florida's Foreverly Shores
2 posted 2005-06-27 11:44 AM


Lee~
I shall come back to this one to soak in the beauty of this moment~

BUT .. THIS ... THIS ...

'golden laughter of ice-melts
smiling'


... grabs me for the moment and sets me smiling~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram <))><

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