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Reflecting On Emma
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Reflecting On Emma |
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icebox Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383in the shadows 
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Your picture arrived as a surprise, it has been ten years or more, with no return address; candid sideways a tiny bit out of focus fresh sadness lines around your eyes, surely to be missed by any who didn’t know you when you were twenty-five, sharp featured quarter profile stare in half tones and shadows slightly wild hair, distant like Virginia Woolf in the thirties, faint trace of the old smile, now clearly just a quirk in how your lips are shaped not yet a sullen smirk forgetting all they were allowed to taste along the way, I bet it still fools a crowd and gets you through the day, the look of the mature housecat, absorbed in pride and tedium bored way beyond all human scope having finally understood the limits of the trap the confinement of having almost all its needs met except the hope to flee except the need to fly; so many years since I have wept and I don’t know your reasons, in that first moment I didn’t even care my heart leapt in my chest, I think I’m getting kind of old for that. ©2006 by icebox |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
icebox "so many years since I have wept and I don’t know your reasons, in that first moment I didn’t even care my heart leapt in my chest, I think I’m getting kind of old for that." Sometimes, a surprise takes us, and we see ourselves as who we were, or it helps us let out something that had been hidden for years, like a heart leaping in chest. Seems like a good thing to me, and I hope that it was for you. Beginnings happen all the time, even after the end.  PS...I guess you're not too old, eh?  |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
Yes, icebox, listen to Martie - she's right! If there can be a time that keeps a woman a child then the same can apply to men so - no, you're not too old. Enjoyed your words. |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
I agree totally with the above...impressive write, as always, very much enjoyed this |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
I very much enjoyed this candid reflection. Well done Sir. In the midst of winter, |
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wvatvrider Member
since 2006-02-04
Posts 78West Virginia,USA |
i think that sometimes the ice comes perilously close to melting-eh? nice memories and how they may unfold... Dan |
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iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
"absorbed in pride and tedium bored way beyond all human scope having finally understood the limits of the trap the confinement of having almost all its needs met except the hope to flee except the need to fly;" What a portrait! The beauty of a wild creature, whether lynx, bird, or butterfly is a seductive force, no doubt about it! ...jo |
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The Lady Member Rara Avis
since 2005-12-26
Posts 7634The Southwest |
"sharp featured quarter profile stare in half tones and shadows slightly wild hair, distant like Virginia Woolf in the thirties,' Beautiful portrait... so poignant. |
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Kaoru
since 2003-06-07
Posts 3892where the wild flowers grow |
You have such a distinct and unique way of description...I like being able to enter your reflections.. This was a fine poem. |
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nakdthoughts Member Laureate
since 2000-10-29
Posts 19200Between the Lines |
I took this meaning in two different ways...enjoying both~~ M |
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Dominique-Simone Senior Member
since 2005-11-12
Posts 643 |
Impressive.. I enjoyed this greatly |
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