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Open Poetry #40

[bergs / of ice]

shirtless
Member

since 2006-04-29

Posts 359

0 posted 2007-02-21 10:32 PM

bergs
of ice
deserving
of names
have broken
from greenland

having done
no more
in thousands
of years
than I have
in 56

and I would like
to stand
on one of them
and cry
onto its cheek
a single tear
that would join
the great intertwining

so that
a thousand
years from now
a child
catching a snowflake
on her tongue
will say,
"daddy,
it tastes salty"

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Ratleader

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since 2003-01-23

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1 posted 2007-02-21 10:38 PM

Ah, very nice....you have a light touch and a steady hand. I like this very much.

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iliana
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since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

2 posted 2007-02-21 10:44 PM

Now, that is one big tear to last a thousand years....or is it an ocean of tears? No matter...I like this poem a bunch. It captures my imagination! .....jo

Roniece Dawson-Bruce
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since 2000-01-29

Posts 5689
Sydney, Australia

3 posted 2007-02-21 10:53 PM

wonderful words you speak Anthony

RDB

Be kind at heart....for everyone you meet has their own battle to fight.........

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
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4 posted 2007-02-22 07:43 AM

very cool

LeeJ
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since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

5 posted 2007-02-22 10:07 AM

I loved this, extremely gentle, yet so perceptive with great depth

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