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Sometimes when it's Dark
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Sometimes when it's Dark |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California 
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Sometimes when it’s Dark Sometimes when it’s dark, I pretend someone’s there. Even that can be hard With such chill in the air. And the angels may hark, Still only Silence sings… As it creeps through the yard Unto my broken wings. I thought that I could fly, Maybe dreamt—I used to! Sometimes when it’s dark, I pretend I still do. But day comes on the sly, Hangs my hopes on a thread. Now angels only hark To remind me I’m dead. Sunlight, just like disease, Well it dissolves my soul. And still no restitution Will ever pay this toll. Why even try to appease The puppet master’s hand When the only solution Is the cry of the damned? A hollowness to shadows, A stillness to the breeze That only finds its mark, When I fall to my knees. ‘Reach for a wilted rose, From some long ago day. When light didn’t seem so dark, And there still seemed a way. Michael Anderson |
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devina Member Elite
since 1999-10-28
Posts 3539Cali |
*tuggin' you up off those knees, Michael... breeze is so continuous, n'steady, that it could probably hold you up forever. (think your muse told mine on one of them-there girls' nites, maybe?  hugs n stuff ~T Open arms can be the most fragile in the world... |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Yup. Get up off your knees, especially reaching for a wilted rose . . . Need that vibrant rose to caress. I know, you are just writing dark. Eh . . . Still your rhyming poetry works just as well when you are tied to life instead of death. ~*~ When they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~ |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California |
Alright you two, posted something excessively squishy today just for you. Now let a guy bleed a lil, won't ya? Forever's a long time, Tanya, but I'm up for it.  |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
Gee that was hardly dark at all by your standards. It had a good glossing of gloom is all. You rhyme with an amazing ease. ~L |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California |
Lol Lori, just reread it and it seemed pretty darn bleak to me. I guess I my standards were set pretty low weren't they? Doing what I can to change that.  Michael |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
nice...james |
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