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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2006-08-07 03:08 PM


I can take it today right out of the door
and discard it offhandedly into the can
or aim it and throw it with fixated bliss
into the face of the poor garbage man
as positive proof of synchronicity.

He wouldn’t believe because slowly I’d kneel
and smile the sweet smile of an innocent child
doing always and always what comes naturally
to shock and enliven the mind
to a most undeniable force.

Look!  It’s today and a moment to pray  
the wind blows a gale and my timing is bad  
but “sorry for you” it’s your destiny
to take, take it all, like a genuine man
and be the keeper forever.

But sighs to the sky for these present times
that keeps the men running for garbage
instead of the wisdom to stand and receive
love’s age-old workable adage
thrown out for free by women like me!  

Helen  7 August 2006


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Midnitesun
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Member Empyrean
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Gaia
1 posted 2006-08-07 09:23 PM


"to shock and enliven the mind
to a most undeniable force."
yep
stand back and behold
woman...strong

nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29
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Between the Lines
2 posted 2006-08-08 05:44 PM


"But sighs to the sky for these present times
that keeps the men running for garbage
instead of the wisdom to stand and receive
love’s age-old workable adage
thrown out for free by women like me"...

made me sigh just to read it and absorb the thoughts

M

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