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A Photograph
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A Photograph |
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1slick_lady Member Ascendant
since 2000-12-22
Posts 6088standing on a shadow's lace 
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A Photograph my mind tightly caresses memories that is all I have of you now and curled yellow pages of unsent love letters that I stir ashes with in a fire once lit just smoke that echoes now down a hallway from a shadow things are so dead and unbelievably I still breathe in my hunger I had tasted you the swirling chemicals of development licking between the bitter and the sweet but realism and romance are not a good mix so I saw myself in black and white a photograph that became my life just some words cut out |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
SweetestOneSlick~ This is poignantly pretty~ I greatly enjoyed the way you developed the photo for sharing~ *Huglets*  ~*Marge*~ ~*No matter what I search for ... |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
you've stirred those ashes, and transformed those memories into a puff of smoke color peeks past the black and white  |
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Ringo
since 2003-02-20
Posts 3684Saluting with misty eyes |
Helen- You are as awsome as always. I am looking forward to even more from you. When all is said |
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iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
"of unsent love letters that I stir ashes with in a fire once lit" What a way with words! ....jo |
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inkedgoddess Member Rara Avis
since 2002-11-19
Posts 7392Ohio |
romance needs always to fly never a good mix with realism |
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marcel Senior Member
since 2003-03-02
Posts 660az, usa |
sadly beautiful...... |
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ctowen Member Elite
since 2001-10-18
Posts 2286Green Mountains of VT |
endeared ... well carried ... unforgetful ... picture perfect!! CT  |
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Dark Angel Member Patricius
since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095 |
so I saw myself in black and white a photograph that became my life fantastic!  ~i want for myself your trembling~ |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
I've been doing a lot of this too. This is beautiful sadness. (and hey? I'm not making an assumption that was about him, but I thought you would like to know, I found Richard. He's alive, and stubborn as ever. He lost everything, but he still insists on trekking back in bio-chem suits to try to salvage his cd's.) |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
OH...and this reminded me so much of a favorite song: "Time it was and what a time it was it was a time of innocence a time of confidences. Long ago it must be I have a photograph preserve your memory-- they're all that's left you." Simon & Garfunkel (Paul wrote it I believe)  |
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jwesley Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563Spring, Texas |
hey you...haven't been around much but. . . thinking of you still...and enjoyed this. j. |
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SmartChick Member Rara Avis
since 2001-09-23
Posts 7081On A Journey To The Unknown |
Beautiful. I wish I had the talent of writing my feelings in such a poetic way as you do. You wrote the way I feel. |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
Ah, yours was the last one I have time to read today, must have known to save the best for last. Helen, your snapshots of life are always more technicolor than black and white  |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
I could almost ditto Mysteria's response... except that I began with this... and am glad I did! Excellent! |
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