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Huan Yi
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since 2004-10-12

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Waukegan

0 posted 2005-11-24 02:41 PM

Rumor had it
She would watch
From some high place
With that lovesick Paris
At her side

And of course
It was said
She was beautiful
Though the features of her figure
The very color of her eyes
Seemed to change
From man to man

There were women enough
For peasants to fight
And poets to write about
In towns and farms back home

So only a fool
Would think it true
We left the fields
Our pigs and cows
To war for a woman
We had never seen

1slick_lady
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since 2000-12-22

Posts 6088
standing on a shadow's lace

1 posted 2005-11-24 03:15 PM

lesser things
have made
a heart beat
on

Huan Yi
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since 2004-10-12

Posts 6688
Waukegan

2 posted 2005-11-24 03:25 PM

Helen,

"lesser things
have made
a heart beat
on"

That can be taken
a number of ways
as different as sword and flowers.

Happy Holidays

John

CastleGuard
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since 2003-04-30

Posts 760
Alberta, Canada

3 posted 2005-11-25 12:59 PM

true
most of those
who went
did not carry Helen’s
portrait next to their hearts -
but a premise of gold
and more pigs and cows...

yet, men have died in millions
for causes much lesser than
a face of a woman...
for another man’s avarice
and greed, egos
of godly stature...

“Where you going, soldier?”

“Where they tell me to....”

Huan Yi
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since 2004-10-12

Posts 6688
Waukegan

4 posted 2005-11-25 01:30 PM

CG,

Thanks for reading.
And the response which I think
you should post where others can read.

John

Ratleader

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since 2003-01-23

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Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass

5 posted 2005-11-26 11:06 AM

But -- haven't we all? I mean, at some time or another, hasn't every man done something exactly like this?

...and does that excuse it in the slightest....?

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Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

6 posted 2005-11-26 11:37 AM

Enjoyed this very much, John.

Thank you!

.

Huan Yi
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since 2004-10-12

Posts 6688
Waukegan

7 posted 2005-11-26 02:28 PM

Ed,

Thanks for reading.

Something addressed in “The Leaden Eyed”
I think had much to do with it . . .

Thanks again,

John

bgj
Member

since 2005-11-09

Posts 128
Ga. USA

8 posted 2005-11-28 12:48 PM

"Without a reason men would make war for the sake of war itself."

Very interesting write. Well done,
bgj

CastleGuard
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since 2003-04-30

Posts 760
Alberta, Canada

9 posted 2005-11-28 01:15 PM

bgj - that in itself...may be the greatest reason...

CG

serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

10 posted 2005-11-28 04:21 PM

I always took it as metaphor anyhow...Helen, the embodiment of passion for an ideal...

your work is always thought provoking John.

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

11 posted 2005-11-28 04:41 PM

You have left me with much to ponder today John.
Well done!

~ Trace my body with your words..
in doing so, you touch my heart ~

Drauntz
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since 2007-03-16

Posts 2905
Los Angeles California

12 posted 2007-04-20 11:11 PM

this world. many things surprised me.

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