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Winter Comes
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Winter Comes |
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jwesley Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563Spring, Texas 
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WINTER COMES I’m driving down the highway at a hundred miles an hour . . . a dead end road, no beginning – no end. Hope started when I did, back then, with an increase in speed, a scream stretching far back in the vacuum behind, to the beginning no longer there. To you – or who you use to be – Now, along a dead end road . . . winter comes. (~~~~this second part I didn't add at first~~~~) I’m driving down the highway at a hundred miles an hour . . a dead end road, no beginning – no end. Two hands, on the roundness her stomach had become, she looks questions at my eyes – I shy away, don't answer. Two feet on the floor, two hands on the wheel, cruise in maximum overdrive, four wheels leaving dark clouds of hell behind. . . I look at her – questions . . . she nods, blinks once, looks ahead – I steer at a massive tree. . . Beginnings and ends, along a dead end road, where winter comes, again. © wesley james beard, jr. 07/09 Note: Came across this song by Meghan (Coffee) Arias, "Window", being played in the background of a photography video I was watching...finally found the song itself so I could hear the whole piece ... and this write is what it gave me... wanna hear it??? Can download the MP3 @ http://files.me.com/usedfilm/k0xm6b.mp3 --- kind of an ethereal piece... |
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Alison 
since 2008-01-27
Posts 9318Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy! |
Hi Jimmy, It's good to see you again - you are driving so fast though that I can barely read your poetry. Slow down, man! I like this a lot - sometimes it all does seem like a deadend road to winter. Thank you for sharing - I have missed you. How is your grandson? Alison |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Very nice...James |
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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan |
. Very Good Wes, No quarter With your permission, would like to add this to my Word file of poems by others. Again, very good John . |
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jwesley Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563Spring, Texas |
Thank you Alison...my friend, and my good buddy Michael....glad you like it. Haun Yi...aw shucks...you certainly may, my friend... There's a second part of this I didn't post...think I go on and attach it above anyway... Of course no one will like it now I guess...but what the heck...don't expect people to like everything, if anything...so here goes...re-read the piece now. j. |
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