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Why I No Longer Dance
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Why I No Longer Dance |
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icebox Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383in the shadows 
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Walk me slowly my love in memories on littered paths that wind along meandered banks above valleys cut with understanding by ancient languid rivers of time. I'm smiling, thinking of you so tense, so concerned about ... ...what? How to live? When to die? That seems to me to be like a tree wondering if it should allow its leaves to turn with the season or if in Spring to suffer children to frolic among its branches. When we were young, you always so much younger than I, we would spend stolen nights dancing breathless through trysts in loving vignettes, scripts carved by Eros in bas relief on living surfaces of souls entwined, souls made senseless to all but the searing heat of lust numbed to the cutting pains of understanding time, in time, would tear our lives apart leaving each a wounded heart dancing in the mists of memory alone. ©2007 by icebox . |
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aziza Member Elite
since 2006-07-09
Posts 2995Lumpy Oatmeal makes me Crazy! |
I wish I had written this. So touching and beautiful. A |
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iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
Oh! But to have danced! (And learned all the steps!) I love this poem and it now holds the rank of favorite of yours and right up there with one of my favorites of all time......jo |
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aziza Member Elite
since 2006-07-09
Posts 2995Lumpy Oatmeal makes me Crazy! |
Came back to add to my Library. A |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
~sigh~I'm having trouble finding the right words for this. Poignantly tender and loving are too weak. Once again, you've touched a chord, and it resonates. |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Nice writing...James |
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Susan Caldwell Member Rara Avis
since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348Florida |
Sometimes I feel you watching. This time that feeling made it impossible to read this just once. The words pricked at my own memories of younger days.  You do still dance yanno.  "too bad ignorance isn't painful" |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
icebox....it is too hard to find the right words to reply to this writing from that tender heart. Just know I read it with a tear of my own.  |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
Inspired, sunkissed icebox is melting here ... his heart and the readers' too ... Superb writing. Love, Margherita |
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Artic Wind Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 8080Realm of Supernatural |
Walk me slowly my love in memories" Ice box - this is beyond lovely ARCTIC WIND |
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divine chaos Senior Member
since 2006-07-09
Posts 617dancing 'neath the moon |
absolutely beautiful and heart-touching, mine breaks a bit each time i read it. ~Sheli~ By words the mind is winged |
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TinaTrivett Senior Member
since 2006-07-15
Posts 569 |
What a sweet & tender write. Well done icebox. |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
Oh, Dear Box of Ice, one of the most beautiful poems that I have ever read. I am still reeling from the emotions that your poem evoked in me. Yes, you have danced ~ oh, how you have danced. You may no longer be in step with your long-lost love, but the memories of you together must still warm, the coldest of nights. Love & dancing Light, EA |
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1slick_lady Member Ascendant
since 2000-12-22
Posts 6088standing on a shadow's lace |
oh my darling you dance yes you dance |
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vandana
since 1999-10-22
Posts 10463USA |
good read |
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Kahlil Senior Member
since 2003-04-12
Posts 1881 |
It's a pleasure to read your tendernesses, over and over. So touching... |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
I think you would both make an exceptional duet....well written Icebox...enjoyed the read. |
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