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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart 
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Red Flag Down The countless ways to find out things about others… when we willingly leave our quiet steps and fingerprints holding DNA among the lines of a web that encircles us in with deadly silence. And so what if I go away for two or three days, not bothering with the USPO, making requests to hold mail but instead, take down fences, rely on neighbors… who don’t make use of electronic means… what will they learn of me, us, within three deliveries? Will that junk mail reveal where I shop, even though I never step foot inside any overpriced WalMart for the well-to-do, it’s just a mailing list, after all… will they know I would just pitch stuff of that sort? What about the magazines addressed to me, bearing the first, maiden, and last name, which literally looks important by substance alone, but is no more than another mailing list, beckoning me to follow my dreams, if I but pay them to read my work. Does the glossy front cover of the Smithsonian make them smile, and will they wonder as to why we have a subscription? They may place my parcels and correspondence in a safe place within the four walls of their own home, or maybe, they will leave their own fingerprints on the books and magazines that arrive, different from their own. Will they know me better when I return? Or am I just a neighbor who bugged them for a favor? |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
 IF I were to house watch for you? that Smithsonian would be well dog-eared by the time you returned, and Walmart ads would line the trash basket. Enjoy your vacation! |
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Gentle Spirit Member Patricius
since 2000-10-09
Posts 13989 |
ahhh....they will just come to know the wonderful woman that you are, maybe just a little bit better. Have a nice vacation lady! |
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Goldenrose Member Elite
since 2003-05-30
Posts 3665 |
How could they glean from mail just what a great writer you are?..thats all that matters to me, they may never know?..Unless they come here and feast on your words so fair..thank you.. Goldenrose. Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, ring out the old, ring in the new,ring out the false, ring in the true..A Lord Tennyson |
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Drauntz Member Elite
since 2007-03-16
Posts 2905Los Angeles California |
interesting. a beautiful poem. only the topic is interesting. make me think in other way, i shall rise a white flag. don't know why. I should. love your poem. |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Dear Sissie What an interesting thought. Have mail, will know you. I think a poem would be much better equiped for giving such, but then...to ask is how friendship can be born, especially when the answer's yes.  |
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JL Member Ascendant
since 2004-04-01
Posts 6128Texas, USA |
Excellent!!  JL  "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." |
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secondhanddreampoet Member Ascendant
since 2006-11-07
Posts 6394a 'Universalist' ! |
marvelous 'write'!... [as is typical from this author] I wanted to 'hi-lite' a favorite part... but, I failed!... (the whole thing is 'a favorite part'!) long-sustained applause!! |
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