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passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

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0 posted 2010-04-23 10:25 AM

Between the clinking of ice in my glass
and the tapping of ashes from my cigarette,
there is a sadness...a guitar playing
soft and slow...a dragon-slaying

and I lost the bet.

Juju
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since 2003-12-29

Posts 3429
In your dreams

1 posted 2010-04-23 10:33 AM

Sad

-Juju

-"So you found a girl
Who thinks really deep thoughts
What's so amazing about really deep thoughts " Silent all these Years, Tori Amos

OldBuddyOldPal
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since 2008-12-15

Posts 87

2 posted 2010-04-23 05:01 PM

I am sorry you are so sad today, Dixie.

Laverne Pacquire
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since 2009-11-15

Posts 96

3 posted 2010-04-23 05:53 PM

I like the clinking of ice in the glass;

I read this a few times. the first time I was thinking about some hooker at a casino, but then you mention a dragon slaying and then I lost my train of thought..

I think this poem left the clinking of ice in my brain.

take care

Andrew Scott
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since 1999-06-24

Posts 2558
Redlands,CA,USA

4 posted 2010-04-23 06:04 PM

"... while my guitar gently weeps." Peace.

"We'll chase them like rats across the tundra."

Zeigeist
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since 2009-12-09

Posts 311
Michigan

5 posted 2010-04-23 09:47 PM

really liked this but not so much the last line.

Z.

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

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6 posted 2010-04-24 09:54 AM

thanks for the replies

2islander2
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since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

7 posted 2010-04-24 10:33 AM

excellent write, short and efficient and full of soul...a great one..

regards

yann

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

8 posted 2010-04-24 02:26 PM

Stays in the mind.
ida

Alison

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since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

9 posted 2010-04-24 05:41 PM

Sometimes you don't lose - you just step backwards for a time.

Love you,
A

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

10 posted 2010-04-24 11:28 PM

Rocks on almost every path, my friend, and if not rocks, then tree-roots, dips in the ground, dead animals --- whatever...always something to trip you up...the only total disaster though is not living anything.

Give me life and somehow I'll survive the rest (albeit not painlessly - and speaking emotional pain here; make me a resident in the burn ward (or the like) of a hospital and I'd surely sing a different tune).

Still. . . my preference (and easy for me to say, huh?) Definitely not uncaring though, my friend - not that for sure.

j.

Prasad Nataraj
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since 2008-05-29

Posts 1149
Bangalore,India

11 posted 2010-04-25 10:44 AM

Great feeling of sadness in this write….

"Hardwork pays in the long run"

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