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1slick_lady
Member Ascendant

since 2000-12-22

Posts 6088
standing on a shadow's lace

0 posted 2006-03-11 09:06 AM

My Ruby Slippers

what would I do
if I could change things
and do it all again

helpless love
would not let me hold you
and I was powerless to unmelt
you gave me rings around the moon
I was so drawn to its pull
for I had never loved anyone
like I did you
not before or since
breath halted in your name
where time unraveled quickly
stopping the world in your company
just too much to share
with anyone else
once a comfort in a hurricane
splashing sunset in pale
the best day I ever had
where you became my words
every letter was you
I could click paper and pen
just to be home again
a true haunting now
a hollow sound echoing
where everything I write
ends up being about you
I have almost ceased writing
and life has gone on
unknowing the secret to forget
I hear you thinly in the wind
invisible tears worn with rain
I can not forget
I can not
another lesson I never learned
like no matter what you do
you can not make someone
love you
yet, there is a dull missing ache
and when you went
I just wish you
had left me
strong

just some words cut out
from the diary of my heart

nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

1 posted 2006-03-11 09:43 AM

the best day I ever had
where you became my words
every letter was you
I could click paper and pen
just to be home again

Helen, almost every thought in this is powerful and meaningful to me~~
and you are strong of heart and words

M

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

2 posted 2006-03-11 09:48 AM

Helen this absolutely aches with longing.
Wonderfully expressed.
Hugs~Nancy

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

Ratleader

Member Rara Avis

since 2003-01-23

Posts 7026
Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass

3 posted 2006-03-11 09:48 AM

What a dance of love this poem is....a dance alone, but a dance. It's one of those rare pieces that leaves me thinking, that now I wouldn't need to read another word today.

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______________Ratleader______________

icebox
Member Elite

since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

4 posted 2006-03-11 10:33 PM

"for I had never loved anyone
like I did you
not before or since
breath halted in your name
where time unraveled quickly
stopping the world in your company"

OK, the whole poem slammed me, but these lines just plain blew me away.

I believe one of the basic lessons of karma is to experience a relationship in which hopelessly loving is the baseline. The reciprocal lesson is that of being hopelessly loved. I do not believe there is any way to avoid these lessons permanently; we can simply postpone them.

The Lady
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-12-26

Posts 7634
The Southwest

5 posted 2006-03-11 11:01 PM

"I can not forget
I can not
another lesson I never learned
like no matter what you do
you can not make someone
love you"

Terrific lines in this poem. Well done.

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

6 posted 2006-03-13 02:34 PM

the best day I ever had
where you became my words
every letter was you

This is absolutely lovely!!!

I'm reading "Wicked" so the title drew me in... I'm so very glad it did! *S*

Earth Angel
Member Empyrean

since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

7 posted 2006-03-13 02:42 PM

You expressed that "dull missing ache" very, very well.

Your ruby slippers await! May you soon be dancing in them!

EA

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