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icebox Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383in the shadows 
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Now the clock is winding low, not much more time to gather fate before you go to learn the lessons for which you've suffered; so little left that you can do no more than wait, you who never believed in Death will realize always it was true Death so strongly believes in you. ©2005 by icebox |
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Dark Angel Member Patricius
since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095 |
Death so strongly believes in you. WOW! that last line just slapped me fair in the face...maree clears vision  Fantastic! mxx ~i want for myself your trembling~ |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
icebox Always enjoy reading you. |
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Nightshade 
since 2001-08-31
Posts 13962just out of reach |
Gave me shivers this did. Very true words. hugs, Chris Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
icebox I think our culture conditions us to deny death....especially our own. Your poem is like a nudge towards truth. Thank you.  |
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Susan Caldwell Member Rara Avis
since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348Florida |
"before you go to learn the lessons for which you've suffered" Oh how sad that they didn't learn them while here... As always, your words scream of truth.  "too bad ignorance isn't painful" |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
How very very true your words are! Yes..indeed..we are all headed in the same direction, believe it or not. Hugs~Nancy ~Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.~ |
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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan |
Very good old Man |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
I'm gonna be writing you on this one... love, grasshopper II |
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Robert Frazier Senior Member
since 2003-02-06
Posts 1014 |
after this, what's left to say? except, maybe, "seize the day"? Rf |
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Temptress
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-06-15
Posts 7136Mobile, AL |
truth...I love it  this reminds me when someone told me the devil believes in me. Geesh.. enjoyed "I want to heal, I want to feel, like I'm close to something real" |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
Makes it easier if you can learn 'em here....but that's so very hard, and always based on assumptions that might be wrong themselves, stick a magnet under your compass..... ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
A bit of a reality check! I think I best try to figure how to slow the hands on that proverbial clock! I don't want the Grim One reaping my bones any time soon!  EA |
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Angelheart Senior Member
since 2005-09-08
Posts 754Jacksonville,FL USA |
dang this did make me feel something, you just never know when its your time, thanks for sharing. Poetry can get you very far |
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Sharksbean Member
since 2005-09-25
Posts 368jax |
this gave me the shudders it... was... good thank you for sharing icebox -may the force be with you in poetry |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Reminded me of something I heard on the radio today..."Sometimes God retires us."...James |
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iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
There is death and there are deaths and I am not sure what the difference is. Nor am I sure of what the difference in life and death really are. Maybe we are dead now in a way and free when we cross over into the wider space. See, there you go, getting me thinking again. There is no doubt, though, that changes happen. There's a growing worldwide anxiety about the end times now which the major news channels are of course playing into, and maybe the Earth will have no more of us because it can only take so much without vomiting us out....but I do believe in the divine spirit that each of us has within us and it's undefinable beginning and ending....well, that's what I am going to hang onto. Just hope there's a good use for me on the other side....lol. Thought provoking read, Mr. C. .....jo |
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littlewing Member Rara Avis
since 2003-03-02
Posts 9655New York |
icey? The only way I can even begin to respond to this is a repost, I have no other words than this: Synthesis It can be disputed, that the dying breath of man is composed solely of flushed, angelic breeze. Not unlike a delicate touch, traversing each curve of hip and thigh, while lying, entwined beneath a cool summer’s morn’. It can be disputed, that such temperate breeze resembles the joy felt upon hearing an infant’s first wail. It has been proven, that one’s last breath is nothing more than carbon dioxide and nutrients, dispelled. I have seen more death than life. I embody the bile rising from the city’s sewers. Vomited, from the cracked and bleeding mouths of our forefathers. The gutters ejaculate, stinging my skin, pricking, as needles. No matter how I try, I cannot be scrubbed clean. I dispute, that death is anything pleasant. For the living. I have seen more death than life. And I braid its bony fingers, within my own. |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
whoa! chillingly effective....causes one to ponder...this was a tremendous write with a touch of poe, and those cold winter winds, reaching up from the darkest grave, twising the arm of fate.... well done...well done! |
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