I Remember When A Dime Meant Being On The Nickel

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icebox
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since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

0 posted 2007-04-05 09:32 PM

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When I die
bury me alone,
piled skin and rags and bone,
shove me in the dirt
where I won't have to think;
I'm past the brink of having lived a decade
with little human touch;
at first it made me crazy
now I don't miss it much
and I don't want a crowd around
when I'm dead and gone.

So lay me down easy
where the soft morning earth
is praying for dawn to prevail,
where the breeze brings promise
and seldom a tear,
where flowers are easy to find,
where birds hear kindness
as choices of freedom
in turning to soar on the wind,
and humans seldom travail.

I love the hopes
writ in books of belief,
though they all fade after a while,
you see them gathering dust on a shelf
where life is a gift
held only on loan
to use or to squander at will,
the choices we face
are the reason we live
when choosing to live is in style,
and the bill that's due
in the pause between lives
is only our debt to the self.

Sure it's true,
I'm not religious by anyone's terms,
and incense brings on the cough,
further true
that I won't kneel to any man
or his god,
but a well turned hymn
is a joy to get off,
that
sometimes paints me a smile.

So lay me down easy
where the soft morning earth
is praying for dawn to prevail,
where the breeze brings promise
and seldom a tear,
where flowers are easy to find,
where birds hear kindness
as choices of freedom
in turning to soar on the wind,
and humans seldom travail.

©2007 by icebox

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Drauntz
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since 2007-03-16

Posts 2905
Los Angeles California

1 posted 2007-04-05 09:39 PM

oh! how can you write like this. Dead ones would wake up to cry.

so moving!

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

2 posted 2007-04-05 10:13 PM

Truth is so hard to write,
yet so many of the elder
want such a blessed release

but you really didn't write
of the nickel

more of the dime, I think,
when it tinkled to the ground
and was worn through
with the dance.

Still and all,

well done, Sir.

write on, because you shall.

latearrival
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since 2003-03-21

Posts 5499
Florida

3 posted 2007-04-05 10:54 PM

Oh!!! I am so with you. Beautiful,thoughtful and understandable.martyjo

serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

4 posted 2007-04-05 10:54 PM

Drauntz? Dead ones do....

iliana
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since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

5 posted 2007-04-06 02:26 AM

"So lay me down easy
where the soft morning earth
is praying for dawn to prevail,
where the breeze brings promise
and seldom a tear,
where flowers are easy to find,
where birds hear kindness
as choices of freedom
in turning to soar on the wind,
and humans seldom travail."

Well, Mr. C., that sounds like heaven to me....let's make sure the birds are not kooing doves though, k?

"I love the hopes
writ in books of belief,
though they all fade after a while,
you see them gathering dust on a shelf
where life is a gift
held only on loan
to use or to squander at will,
the choices we face
are the reason we live
when choosing to live is in style,
and the bill that's due
in the pause between lives
is only our debt to the self."

Thank you for sharing this. Yes....I'm still learning about those choices, I guess, afterall.

....jo

Martie

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

6 posted 2007-04-06 10:33 AM

Dear C

Some small stone perhaps, all shinny from the child you were, and the grace of the blade of grass you walked around...and I, would miss you!

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

7 posted 2007-04-06 10:39 AM

Ice~
There is beauty in fact ... and fact in beauty~

You fill the page with ponder ... so I will~

I think that I like everything there is to like about this one~

*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*The sound of a kiss is not as strong as that of a cannon, but it's echo endures much longer*~
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Margherita
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since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

8 posted 2007-04-06 12:01 PM

Dear icebox, I enjoyed this plea of your soul. When the time comes may there be birds and flowers and sunlight to sing all together the beauty you are and will be always.

Love,
Margherita

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