You limp on a once-mighty paw

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Copperbell
Senior Member

since 2003-11-08

Posts 956

0 posted 2009-02-22 11:03 PM

a shard of ice
Imbedded in your heart
numbs you

     but it is still pain

Too many winters
it has thrived within
your softest place

    and your wine hides it oh so well

you limp
on a once-mighty paw
now not so useful

    but you’ve learned to compensate

Come close
Small one
Come close

like a bird frightened
unable to fly
I will hold you
I promise not to hurt you

Come close
and I will set you free

Bill Charles
Member Patricius

since 2000-07-11

Posts 10619
highways, & byways, for now

1 posted 2009-02-22 11:30 PM

Copperbell - I enjoy reading your writings...

BC

serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

2 posted 2009-02-23 12:01 PM

*smile*

I couldn't help but think of Mickey Rourke...

bravo, brava

a good thing done!

yay

(great title btw...)

ethome
Member Patricius

since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

3 posted 2009-02-23 03:51 AM

Good work cleverly done!

Eric

Copperbell
Senior Member

since 2003-11-08

Posts 956

4 posted 2009-02-23 08:51 AM

Thank you Bill

and Serenity

and Ethome.

OwlSA
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since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

5 posted 2009-02-23 11:01 AM

And I thought about a great big lion, and I didn't want the kitty cat to be hurt, so I tiptoed in, ready to back out in a hurry - lovely poem, and thank you for not hurting a lion!

- Owl

Mark Bohannan
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since 2000-06-21

Posts 7269
In the winds of Cherokee song

6 posted 2009-02-23 11:40 AM

Life has a way of hardening us and sometimes it does take someone very special to warm that wound. Excellent read here and very much worth the visit.

Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

7 posted 2009-02-23 12:31 PM

Yo dear Copperbell,

I like the thought expressed by your poem. It's fairly well done.

Love Bobby

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

8 posted 2009-02-23 01:01 PM

Thanks for the caring and tenderness presented in this fine write!

Marchmadness
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since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

9 posted 2009-02-24 03:53 AM

You write with great sensitivity and understanding, Copperbell. Always enjoy your writing.
Ida

Copperbell
Senior Member

since 2003-11-08

Posts 956

10 posted 2009-02-24 08:54 AM

Thanks for commenting
Owl and Mark, Bobby, Midnite and March!

Glad you enjoyed my poem.

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