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Professor Gloom
Member Elite

since 2000-07-23

Posts 3082
of Depression

0 posted 2009-01-25 05:32 AM

I sit here in the wind watching the easing of the light
The sun slips from the church’s steeple turning into the twilight
Standing with a shrug I walk with the wind into the night
Darkness devoured the day
Clouds hide the starlight’s way
The dark becomes a drizzle to chill to ice
Winds whips up to add a robust slice

Drizzle dark becomes pellets
Wounding.

I feel touch
But lacking the warmth for worth;
I accept,
Pay the price,
How can you value touch’s worth?
Till it’s gone,
Is no price,
Just the remembering feel
Of what was,
And won’t be,
Lost to the encroaching real;
I need touch.

Arrived
Through bolts and locks
I closet my leather and begin some tea
Soon there are two felines begging to me
But they want for nothing save the notice of seeing
A rub, a pet, what ever they can get, to verify their being
Then they wander off to watch out a pelted window
As I sit and sip pondering the future in the shadow
And before long the hall clock is sounding out tomorrow.

Gloom

Nan

Administrator

Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-20

Posts 21191
Cape Cod Massachusetts USA

1 posted 2009-01-25 09:43 AM

Spring will be here soon, Gloomy one.. and I personally can't wait either. This is well done, m'friend..

nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

2 posted 2009-01-26 06:54 AM

Partial Thoughts

I sit here in the cold
watching for each morning rise.
The dark slips from my memory,
wishing to hold on a bit longer.

Pressing my thoughts with an iron hand,
the swing of, a torturous weight.
Though free from some worries, others arise,
leaving the happy behind.

There's snow in the promise
to freeze the thoughts,
those pleasant memories of when,
and the building of.

I feel for the touch,
sometimes forgotten,
but I accept,
knowing it's in the wait,
my value.

The real is there
for the sharing,
though tempting
are the thoughts
to replace words
with the unconditional love
of another Sugar or Ginger.

Hesitatingly aware~~

M

Artic Wind
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 8080
Realm of Supernatural

3 posted 2009-01-26 11:25 AM

I love Spring as much as I love any other season. (well, right now I am tapping my finger, waiting, for Spring to come, Winter has bee VERY cold this year

ARCTIC WIND

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

4 posted 2009-01-26 02:22 PM

Very apropos...bone-chilling 'single digits,' even 'warmer' days when it creeps into the 20's grows tiresome quite fast.
I'm ready for 60+F, but accept we have several weeks of winter left before robins and flowering buds shout SPRING.

Earth Angel
Member Empyrean

since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

5 posted 2009-01-26 02:43 PM

Professor, I believe this to be one of
my personal favourites of yours. ~ and
believe me, that is saying a mouthful!
I have just now finished my third reading of it ~ so it surely is a

I thoroughly enjoyed your sharing of those moments. I saw them ~ I felt them...

EA

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

6 posted 2009-01-27 03:08 PM

I agree with Linda. This is a keeper.
Ida

Chanson
Senior Member

since 2000-08-19

Posts 1559
Up Creek w/Out Paddle

7 posted 2009-01-27 03:18 PM

A gem of a poem, Prof.

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