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passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

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0 posted 2007-05-30 12:49 PM

reposted because I am just in this kind of mood once again

Waffle House Coffee

There's something about Waffle House coffee
on a dark and chilly winter night,
a booth seat for one, facing the road,
not even any homeless in sight,

it makes me fearful and full of fright.

The world sleeps while I sit there
sipping in between gazing out
past my reflection in the window,
refills just bring memories about,

it makes me lonely and full of doubt.

A friend once told me what Deepak said,
that we are not defined by yesterdays,
yesterdays no longer exist, that's true,
but does anyone know what a memory weighs?

And though I want to leave, it stays.

There's something about Waffle House coffee
with two o'clock in the morning frost
that keeps me in grieving, and then perhaps
if I stay, I'll get back what I lost.

Drauntz
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since 2007-03-16

Posts 2905
Los Angeles California

1 posted 2007-05-30 03:29 PM

beautiful. You are a philosopher now.

Love "And though I want to leave, it stays." and "if I stay, I'll get back what I lost."

enjoyed this wonderful one, truly.

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

2 posted 2007-05-30 04:17 PM

Nice writing...James

JL
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since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

3 posted 2007-05-30 04:52 PM

"does anyone know what a memory weighs?"

I like the mood you're in.
Great re-post.

JL

Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed:
blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
~Jesus Christ

The Lady
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-12-26

Posts 7634
The Southwest

4 posted 2007-06-01 09:24 PM

"There's something about Waffle House coffee
with two o'clock in the morning frost"

beautiful Dixie
the Waffle House
is the perfect setting for the blues

secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

5 posted 2007-06-01 10:49 PM

not much to add to what several fine 'P.I.P.' authors have already said...
[I would have chosen to highlight the same lines that they did!]...

so I will say simply: this 'write' is superb! [a grand 'read' for me!]

sustained applause!!

aziza
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since 2006-07-09

Posts 2995
Lumpy Oatmeal makes me Crazy!

6 posted 2007-06-02 03:21 AM

Something about your ability to take me to this world too. I see and feel what you write -- I think that is what makes you an artist in my mind.

A

paullallady
Member

since 2007-04-03

Posts 262
Michigan

7 posted 2007-06-02 02:03 PM

Sitting in a coffee house, late at night, with windows that act like mirrors to our soul, it does cause us to turn inward and you caught this perfectly.

Roniece Dawson-Bruce
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since 2000-01-29

Posts 5689
Sydney, Australia

8 posted 2007-06-03 06:04 AM

lovely words here Dixie ... RDB

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

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