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Walking In The New Plant
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass 
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Walking In The New Plant Out here where I used to work, it may be all flat sun on concrete now but, remember how I would walk the night, how I followed the rounds of it glare by shadow from building into building? Can you see how I knew it all so well? I’d leave the flashlight in my pocket at three a.m., let the sounds and echoes guide me through, those and my knowing, which is an echo too. It is only place to take a walk now and I wouldn’t know how to do what they are doing over there. I could do some of it even now get through it in a way, at least, but I would have so much to learn. Some of them still know me; they wave and I wave back, change direction just before they do so we won’t have to meet. Even their old times are not my old times now, an adjustment I’ve had to make. This place is changing like dunes; between my walks the random cranes and crews take and take until I only know the outlines, remember where this was, that was, where I was, see myself still doing things I can barely recall, in places that aren’t places anymore. soon it will all be strange to me and I won’t walk here ever, not even in memory. |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Ed...It's difficult to deal with, when something you were so used to, changes. Yet I enjoyed this poem and the memory that you still have. I know a few places like that myself, and even people.  |
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The Lady Member Rara Avis
since 2005-12-26
Posts 7634The Southwest |
You amaze me... and move me. I know a place like that too. |
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iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
RatL, this works for both a job change but on a much larger scale for internal personal change, as well...and that's how I'm chosing to interpret. Great write. ...jo |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
We're doubling the capacity of the place, without increasing the amount of land it's built on -- a half square mile it already filled -- and doing it in a rush, while in full operation. You can imagine the hullabaloo, and the disruption of the way the place has looked for twenty years....I used to know the place so intimately that you could have shown me a picture of a random square of pavement or floor, and I could have told you precisely where it was, and led you to it in the dark....now the dozers never doze. ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
Thanks for the detail, Ed...sorry to hear it. Change is hard sometimes; sounds like one of those times. ....jo |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
On the other hand, I sometimes do write a poem about a single thing....but not often. It's just too much fun, playing with dimensions! ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> ______________Ratleader______________ |
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Goldenrose Member Elite
since 2003-05-30
Posts 3665 |
Time and progress moves too fast..but they cannot take away the thoughts in your mind..enjoyed the write and thoughts here Ed..thank you.. Goldenrose. Desire for nothing except desirelessness,hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes, want nothing and you will have everything.avatar Meher Baba. |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
You three-dimension very well. Thanks for the tour! |
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miscellanea Member Elite
since 2004-06-24
Posts 4060OH |
Ed, Could have copied the poem, but isn't that always the case? let the sounds and echoes guide me through, those and my knowing, which is an echo too. love it! cathy |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
Some of them still know me; they wave and I wave back, change direction just before they do so we won’t have to meet. Even their old times are not my old times now, an adjustment I’ve had to make. you've done this so elegantly, knowing change as a friend...thats good...and your writing is as always marvelous. |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
Can you see how I knew it all so well? Yes... seeing is easy through your words. *S* And you present the known-intimately-yet-no-longer-quite-familiar so very well... so very poignantly. *S* And... smiling at your "play" with dimensions... *S* A snapshot tells many and varied stories when you're doing the showing. *S* Wonderful work!!! |
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JL Member Ascendant
since 2004-04-01
Posts 6128Texas, USA |
"soon it will all be strange to me and I won’t walk here ever, not even in memory." Difficult conclusion to hear, yet too true to ignore. Enjoyed. JL  |
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