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1slick_lady
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since 2000-12-22

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standing on a shadow's lace

0 posted 2007-06-26 07:43 PM

What Can I Say To You

I call myself a writer
but silence is all you hear
I could lie
and promise you the moon
sweet pillow of night
and words are
just bloody tears
spilled on paper

you deserve better
than nothing

where is my breath
but in your lungs
and each beat
of your heart
is echo of my own
empty arms sleep
with you
in my night
and ancient hills
run red hot within
your name
my loneliness
is pierced by
its sound

what is it
that I can offer you
when empty
is all I own
kisses that are
fog close ground
can I fill you up
with hope
when others cross
my eggshell dreams
in rock feet

if you go
you hold no blame
you deserve better
I know you
couldn’t take the pain
too much being alone
lonely tears
between the rain

"no darkness has ever been deep enough to extinguish my personal knowledge of love" Anne Rice

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

1 posted 2007-06-26 07:48 PM

dang girl

this aches in me

SEA

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since 2000-01-18

Posts 22676
with you

2 posted 2007-06-26 09:43 PM

this is so good

Drauntz
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since 2007-03-16

Posts 2905
Los Angeles California

3 posted 2007-06-27 10:53 PM

as beautiful as always but kind of sad this time.

enjoyed as always.

Roniece Dawson-Bruce
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since 2000-01-29

Posts 5689
Sydney, Australia

4 posted 2007-06-28 06:15 AM

oh my ! wonderful Helen ! RDB

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

Dark Stranger
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since 2001-03-19

Posts 13631
West Coast

5 posted 2007-06-28 06:25 AM

ms helen, you could just say
everything with your eyes..

you are lovely ms

LeeJ
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since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

6 posted 2007-06-28 08:38 AM

you deserve better
than nothing

HA!!!! Don't EVER sell yourself short...Helen, your amazing!!!!!!

Ratleader

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since 2003-01-23

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Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass

7 posted 2007-06-28 09:12 AM

Poems like this are the reason why I've come back to PiP...poems like this, and people like you. I've missed both.

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Gifted
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since 2007-06-26

Posts 140
Caribbean

8 posted 2007-06-28 07:32 PM

This is excellent poetry. I liked this line a lot "where is my breath
but in your lungs". It really stood out to me. When I imagined that it was like... wow.

Peace. Love. Forgiveness.
Blessings and Guidance

Huan Yi
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since 2004-10-12

Posts 6688
Waukegan

9 posted 2007-06-28 07:54 PM

.

Ah, if I were still a white knight . . .

http://www.johnwilliamwaterhouse.com/paintings/painting1365.aspx
.

The Lady
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since 2005-12-26

Posts 7634
The Southwest

10 posted 2007-06-30 11:58 PM

"what is it
that I can offer you
when empty
is all I own"

your lines resonate in my heart Helen
sing to my soul

thank you for everything

dgvarner
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since 2000-05-13

Posts 3552
High Springs, Florida

11 posted 2007-07-02 11:51 PM

this is awesome--so many great lines in there!

hugs, g

"...Never regret anything that made you smile..."

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

12 posted 2007-07-03 06:19 AM

Uh huh...nice to read...James

aziza
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Lumpy Oatmeal makes me Crazy!

13 posted 2007-07-04 07:37 PM

Thank you for sharing
It is hauntingly painful

A

paullallady
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since 2007-04-03

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Michigan

14 posted 2007-07-04 07:41 PM

this was very touching, yet sad.

Larry C

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since 2001-09-10

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United States

15 posted 2007-07-08 04:09 PM

Helen,
How fragile the strong can be. And LeeJ is right. Powerful write dear lady. Peace.

If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane,
I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again.

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

16 posted 2007-07-08 05:39 PM

Helen

Passion just keeps on burning, white hot. It is not empty, but full.

rwood
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since 2000-02-29

Posts 3793
Tennessee

17 posted 2007-07-10 02:14 PM

Lady, if that was "empty" then you own full too.

you've got more charisma in your punctuation than some have in their mammoth Novels.

love,
reg

nakdthoughts
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Between the Lines

18 posted 2007-07-10 02:23 PM

what is it
that I can offer you
when empty
is all I own
kisses that are
fog close ground
can I fill you up
with hope
when others cross
my eggshell dreams
in rock feet
.......

love the feel of this, Helen

M

suthern

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since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

19 posted 2007-07-10 03:57 PM

I was going to highlight the same verse that Maureen did... it is particularly touching in this magnificent, powerful write!

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