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Spiros Zafiris
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since 2002-10-20

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Canada

0 posted 2011-02-25 07:44 PM

this is a room
room which rhymes with poem
in a rooming house
with faces......which also rhymes
it can be on any street in any country
in fact it need not be on land at all
but anyway it is a room
shall we give it a name???
i don't know about you
but i choose to call it: Pain
and there they are
him with his wisdom
her with her memories
and the daggers are drawn and ready
in this cancerous room
which does exist
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..circa 1978..Copyright Spiros Zafiris 1981/2011
..from Midnight Magic 1981
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Sunshine

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1 posted 2011-02-25 08:11 PM

Hmmmm...in this room, cannot the wisdom
and the memories be interchanged among
the sexes? Probably so...and probably
the very reason it can be so painful.

Interesting write, Spiros, but then, you
never fail to amaze me. Never.

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

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2 posted 2011-02-25 08:13 PM

I have never been in that that room. I understand what these rooms are, but I have never been there. I think I have lived a sheltered life.

~ Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach a person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks ~

[This message has been edited by JerryPat2 (02-25-2011 09:35 PM).]

Spiros Zafiris
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3 posted 2011-02-25 08:29 PM

..thanks Sunshine and Jerry..Sunshine, i'm
not sure how to answer you, so i won't

..and Jerry, i know you've been in that room
..but, actually, that room (of the poem),
in particular, was quite something; in a stately mansion, turned rooming house with a
wide, wood stairway (mahogany, i think) leading to my door..right by the mountain,
near downtown, it was
..there were other rooms, though, not as glamorous

..well, thank you, both, for taking the time
to comment..>>spiros
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4 posted 2011-02-25 08:38 PM

It is most interesting how we
play or write out our memories
of a certain place...but I always
welcome the underlying stories!

Spiros Zafiris
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5 posted 2011-02-25 08:52 PM

..Sunshine, friend, the underlying story
can fill a few volumes..1976-1981 in that
particular place..next to a corner park,
on the foothills of Mount Royal..sometimes
i'd see the former prime minister, Trudeau,
walking down the park's stairs on his way to his office..but the old goat didn't want to
be on my Special Edition list to fund my
first book of poems, Very Personal..even if a
very famous poet had given me the first grant
of $200 and the name of a printer (the special editions i presold for only $25..>>spiros
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JerryPat2
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6 posted 2011-02-25 09:36 PM

After reading your comment on what I said I decided to change my comments.

~ Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach a person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks ~

Spiros Zafiris
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since 2002-10-20

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7 posted 2011-02-25 09:48 PM

..Jerry, i was lucky with that room.it even had a wooden floor..and i got it
quite furnished cause a girlfriend lived there and she was about to fly back to France
..so i took over her room but you wouldn't imagine how low the rent was..quite the memories from there..sp
..p.s. "i understand what these rooms are", what
do you mean?

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8 posted 2011-02-25 10:14 PM

This grows more interesting by the revelations.

And, it gives me something to think about
on what I don't think I've written before,
although my list of "meeting famous people" won't quite rank with yours.

It's always the afterstory...that proves most fascinating! Sorry for hijacking this thread, but I love to learn!

OwlSA
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since 2005-11-07

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Durban, South Africa

9 posted 2011-02-26 12:07 PM

I am there, Spiros - my vision is hazy but as I look around the room more carefully and imbibe its ambiance, I can make out some shapes that I first thought were one thing, but am beginning to see are another. Yes, there is pain over there to the left of the door, but there is joy hidden in that corner, and wisdom on that shelf, and, in pride of place on a beautiful oak table there are thoughts born of that pain sculpted into poetry, and entering the door that you unlocked for us, there are discussions that open the curtains and bring the dawn light into the room and fill it with the glow of friendship and understanding and deep, real communication. Thank you for opening that room so that we can share it with you.

Owl

Spiros Zafiris
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10 posted 2011-02-26 01:02 AM

..thanks for your comment, Owl; always
a warm breeze, you are..>>spiros

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