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Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

0 posted 2015-01-24 09:50 PM

A Song the Spirits Play

Piano in the other room,
For me it strikes a chord.
Set quiet in the dark and gloom,
It gives me my reward.
A song that stirs within my soul,
Where emotions still bleed—
Where forever I pay their toll,
A man driven by need.

I listen to the restless tone,
And long to offer word.
Pretending that I’m not alone—
That this song might be heard.
But know too well the all that’s left,
Once the silence rolls in,
Will to darkness leave me bereft
Out on my own again.

And so I glance to spirit’s dance,
But dare not chance their stare.
Listening to the wistful rue
As they lay their souls bare.
Melancholy envelops me,
While time’s held to a thread.
A razor slice, the going price
Of voice lost to my head.

I wake to see sunlight’s decree
Through a crack in the blind;
And know somehow, the here and now
Will not allow rewind.
The laid stark gaze of wasted days,
A haze I’ve yet to lift;
I walk the hall of lost it all,
The memory adrift.

It’s there the chord strikes once again,
And I’m frozen in place;
I reach for, floundering, my pen
But can’t capture their grace—
Their song of hope, of destiny
That I’ve ripped to a shred.
The words, all wrong, all beyond me;
Just can’t revive the dead.

Michael Anderson

1/24/2015

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2015-01-24 11:03 PM

Loved this . . .

"Where forever I pay their toll,
A man driven by need."

No Michael, you "can’t revive the dead." but you can cover it with soil and look to the living.

~*~ When they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~

2dalimit
Member Elite

since 2000-02-08

Posts 2228
Mississippi coast

2 posted 2015-01-26 07:07 AM

“I wake to see sunlight’s decree
Through a crack in the blind;
And know somehow, the here and now
Will not allow rewind.”

-Reality-
Excellent write,
Melton

nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

3 posted 2015-01-26 08:01 AM

"I wake to see sunlight’s decree
Through a crack in the blind;
And know somehow, the here and now
Will not allow rewind.
The laid stark gaze of wasted days,
A haze I’ve yet to lift;
I walk the hall of lost it all,
The memory adrift."

This verse alone says it all....

I feel your words and love your "rhyming" skill.

M

Redstart
Senior Member

since 2014-05-16

Posts 535

4 posted 2015-01-26 09:39 AM

Your poetic skill lends a pounding pulse to the deep melancholy of your poem.

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

5 posted 2015-01-30 07:44 PM

nice writing...james

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