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Open Poetry #45

Morning Shook Like Thunder

icebox
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since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

0 posted 2009-10-06 02:31 AM

When winds blow this hard
and sun sets just right,
or sometimes cold champagne
with the Chinese dish you liked best
when chicken was tender
and broccoli had bight,

I remember soft nights and lightning
when you held on tight;

midnight always left your thinking mind behind
in places where denial lives in prayer,
where emperors' new clothes are badly stained
but no one seems to care,
where tigers are sleeping in promises,
where darkness is described as the new morn,

where neon lights mean clamping eyes shut,
when distractions are a way of life,
wondering why rooms cost so much
when paint is peeling
when pipes run rust,
and a railroad crossing has to be denied
like a cowboy in the ally trying to make his nut.

The wheel of life turns as it must;
we will meet again on down the road.

©2009 by icebox

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

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California

1 posted 2009-10-06 10:51 AM

Lovely recall!

Margherita
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since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

2 posted 2009-10-06 12:30 PM

quote:
midnight always left your thinking mind behind
in places where denial lives in prayer,

There is such depth in your ponderings and you render them with great poetic power.

Love,
Margherita

sweetthing21
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since 2009-09-05

Posts 23

3 posted 2009-10-06 03:34 PM

loved reading this thanks

BluesSerenade
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since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

4 posted 2009-10-07 08:31 PM

You write reality on the cutting edge and make it stick!!

Love the clarity surrounding your poetry.
It's a wonderful thing!!!

Susan Caldwell
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

5 posted 2009-10-21 10:02 AM

"midnight always left your thinking mind behind
in places where denial lives in prayer,
where emperors' new clothes are badly stained
but no one seems to care.."

love it...

and you...

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

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

6 posted 2009-10-21 10:33 AM

C, I've missed you.
This is a vivid snapshot, layered with many feelings and interpretations.
Please don't stop.....

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