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Lori Grosser Rhoden
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0 posted 2011-01-30 11:58 AM

Back to my roots again
with paper and pen...
Scratching out
drawing lines
and the penmanship
strangely isn't mine
My hand has no time
to bother
with flowery flow
just legible enough
for the keyboard
it's to go
Remembering subtleties
of past lines
of poetry
the synchronicity
of unintended rhymes
deeper meanings
between the lines
even the nature
of the ink's sensuous dance
at the end of my pen
and it feels like
falling in love
all over again.

LGR(C)1/30/11

passing shadows
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1 posted 2011-01-30 12:16 PM

Lori, I sometimes read my books, old poems from other times, and here too in the archives...I sure wish I could fall in love all over again.

Pretty sure those days are gone.

Loved your poem!

JerryPat
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Posts 1991
Louisiana/America

2 posted 2011-01-30 12:43 PM

Ah, some say when we grow older what used to excite us doesn't anymore, we only have our memories to recall. But I know that is a damn lie. Love, or lust, or lustful love, knows no age barrier. It is still there, you just have to present yourself in the right way at the right time and hope for the best, because love does not come with a "heart-back" guarantee.

~ What's The Difference Between Roast Beef And Pea Soup? / Anyone Can Roast Beef. ~

Lori Grosser Rhoden
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3 posted 2011-01-30 01:18 PM

passing shadows, don't be so sure, if you remember what falling in love feels like then you can feel that way any time you remember. For me the smell of ink just triggered memories of when I was young and first fell in love with writing (before PCs)
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Jerry, I can't imagine falling out of love with words. Can you? Even when we feel our muses have abandoned us we will wait forever for their return.

Lori

JerryPat
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4 posted 2011-01-30 01:29 PM

Sorry,Lori. I missed the falling our of love part. I missed it that it was words.

~ What's The Difference Between Roast Beef And Pea Soup? / Anyone Can Roast Beef. ~

s1nfully_1nn0c3nt
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Watertown, NY

5 posted 2011-01-30 01:54 PM

Lovely piece. Enjoyed.

quote:
I can't imagine falling out of love with words. Can you? Even when we feel our muses have abandoned us we will wait forever for their return.

I'm not sure I'd wait......I'd probably become a stalker instead.

-Trina
You better believe that my sarcasm could piss a happy meal off.

Sunshine

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6 posted 2011-01-30 03:24 PM

IWIHWT...yes, indeed!

Lori Grosser Rhoden
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7 posted 2011-01-30 06:10 PM

Jerry,I missed the falling our of love part too! When did that happen?

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Trina, I'd just about put money on it that you would stalk it

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Karilea-that's how I feel about your work all the time sweety

Lori

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steavenr
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8 posted 2011-01-30 06:53 PM

this is a very good 'back-to-your-roots' kind of write...loved your "ink's sensuous dance" line...exquisite

Sunshine

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9 posted 2011-01-30 08:35 PM

Well, then,

just because!

ethome
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10 posted 2011-01-30 08:45 PM

I know this feeling.
Really a super way to express it.

Good work Lori keepum upum writeum!

Eric

the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of reality though not beheld

Lori Grosser Rhoden
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Fair to middlin' of nowhere

11 posted 2011-01-30 11:17 PM

Steaven, thanks for the letting me know!
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Love you Sunshine

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Cool, Eric glad you could relate!
Lori

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