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inkedgoddess
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0 posted 2008-12-08 10:49 PM



Theres Tony
He steps his lefts
on my rights
drowns in supermarket cologne
and gropes me
when we dance
the rumba

There's Luke
He's long in stance
olived honed skin
and swallows his r's
with his longshoreman
twang

Then there's you
you without eyes
that can't meet mine

For months
we dance
on the same note
on the Latin beat

You do all the steps
but show me no eyes

Luke winks
and Tony gropes

but you show me
nothing

Yet I drown in you
when we
intertwine

you show me
nothing

and I wonder why.

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Earth Angel
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1 posted 2008-12-08 11:23 PM


Sometimes we're gluttons for punishment, as the saying goes.
Then there is the wanting what we can't have scenario.
~ as well as the challenge to having that which is kept from us.

Hmmm, is it possible to keep all three? lol


Linda

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2 posted 2008-12-09 12:00 PM


Some men -- most men, if you count all the ways -- take what they want from a woman, or try to find a way. Once in a while there is one whose way is to give her what she needs to have, not "from a man," but from him. Maybe you need for him to be a man who doesn't make tries......that can be a wonderful thing, yes?

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3 posted 2008-12-09 08:34 AM


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It  happens....

Dark Stranger
Member Patricius
since 2001-03-19
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4 posted 2008-12-09 08:37 AM


perhaps he watches you in the mirrors as you search for his gaze?  I would
amusemi
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5 posted 2008-12-09 08:58 AM


I'll bet there's something there...behind those aavoiding eyes.  I loved this...and I'm so curious how it will end!
Susan Caldwell
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6 posted 2008-12-09 09:00 AM


Maybe he is intimidated.  Give him a gentle push.

I am envious of the dancing..

"too bad ignorance isn't painful"
~Unknown~

steavenr
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7 posted 2008-12-09 12:19 PM


"Yet I drown in you
when we
intertwine"

...an elegant line, but on another note (if you would permit me to say) remember that strands intertwined to make a rope (though stronger) are still strands--don't let anyone change you...especially if that someone is a man

inkedgoddess
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8 posted 2008-12-09 03:28 PM


Thanks for reading along.
And yes dear E. Angel, you've pegged that for sure.
Dark man you may have a point there, I kind of like that.
Thanks Mr Mack I loved the robot poem. Kind of sad though when time passes and the robot
never humanizes, but I don't thats you at all as a cold man in steel.
Stevenr..don't you worry my dear, this gal got too much moxie to change for any ole man...my heart belongs to the most worthy man of all, my one father in heaven and earth anyhow.
Sue, I already told you get up and dance girl!!
Mr. Rat..you've got a good point there too from the man perspective, most valued.
Thanks again.

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