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0 posted 2006-09-15 07:14 PM


burning poems

passes for friday entertainment

white to orange to black to gone

not much heat and they leave a lot of ash

they look the same as any other paper

the decision feeling makes it special

the beer helps but only a little

i’m running out


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1 posted 2006-09-15 07:42 PM



Well then, douse some more of that beer
on the burning flames...because I can't
think of one poem of yours that I could
find worthy of burning.

YET....

We do hit that stride when we believe
every thought we ever had is nothing
but something for the toilet.

Well...

get off the pot.

Because I know yours, isn't.



So there.




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2 posted 2006-09-15 07:47 PM


Oh, but I'm keepin' my files, yep..... I just got tired of looking at those tired old pieces of paper, and the metaphor set sail on me when I decided to burn the dang things....fire going in the chiminea where I'm burning bush branches I cut this afternoon....and....

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3 posted 2006-09-15 07:55 PM


your poems are hot, but not to be burned, Ratleader!  They have always been among my favorite!  (But... I do understand!  I have artwork I'd love to burn, but I keep it around to show a years growth... At seeing the change, I feel much better!)

Great to steal a little time to be here!  I miss reading your poetry and that of others.  And... writing for that matter!  
Take care,  

misc

[This message has been edited by miscellanea (09-15-2006 08:35 PM).]

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4 posted 2006-09-15 07:56 PM


As I was posting, you must have posted.  Sure am glad to hear you have backups!

misc

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5 posted 2006-09-15 08:12 PM


I burnt a letter once....I wrote it to someone who was already passed who had hurt me...I basically said what I would have said if I'd been able to say it in person.  It sort of helped.  

Back up is a blessing!  

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6 posted 2006-09-18 02:07 AM


"white to orange to black to gone"

It's almost like the cycle of life or something.  Does that make sense?  Course, I am sitting here eating Life with dried cranberries, finding the combination to almost be a philosophical statement.  I live in my own world, I think.

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7 posted 2006-09-19 11:08 AM


I like this

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8 posted 2006-09-19 03:13 PM


Ahgh!  (gasping here)   Fire fodder?  Burning your poetry (or diaries) IS burning branches, a fatal metaphor.  I'm so relieved for the phoenix in the ashes!  

  

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9 posted 2006-09-19 03:37 PM




I like what passes
for friday entertainment...

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10 posted 2006-09-21 12:33 PM


I hear ya
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11 posted 2006-09-21 10:38 AM


RatMan~
I contemplated a burn once ... but only once ... and thankfully a wise voice came and blew the thought away~

Word-paper, I can touch, feel ... make it all real again~
I can see the teardrops, hold the joy close~
I don't know ... those 'files' just don't get it done for me~

It's that old 'strokes n' folks' thang, I reckon~

But then again ... my children would tell you that their mother NEVER threw away ANYTHING remotely nostalgic or sentimental~

*HUGLETS*
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12 posted 2006-09-22 12:50 PM


They may look the same as any other paper... but they're not... no more than gold is the same as any other metal. *S*

I now give most sincere thanks for backup. *S* Don't you be destroying treasure! *S*

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13 posted 2006-09-24 07:50 PM


Ed, it is even worse when you lose your
back-up copies off of the old computer.

I hate burning cds....

Pleased that it was not your stash of keepers that were getting the old crispy critter.

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14 posted 2006-09-28 03:53 PM


I've often wondered if I set fire to my poems what color the flames would be, certainly with the bllod put into them they'd be a vivid red. I've shreded quite a number but never burned them, perhaps that would be the ultimate catharisis.
I have to agree with Sunshine, can't think of a one of your poems I'd set to flame...and I certainly wouldn't burn this one
Ruth

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15 posted 2006-09-28 04:02 PM


I dont know about you but i cannot learn poems by heart? So i thought the poem was going to be about burning them into your memory, turns out to be much better than that, you mentioned having a beer while burning, but phew glad you had them on file, what a wate and loss that would have been, enjoyed the read Ed thank you...

Goldenrose.

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16 posted 2006-09-28 04:09 PM


I can't memorize my own, that's for sure -- there might be two or three out of all my poems that I could recite if I had to, and I usually couldn't do it, even the short ones, half an hour after I've written 'em.

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