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Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

0 posted 2015-05-22 05:25 PM

Disturbing, the Peace

Disturbing, the peace
That sets here night and day.
It holds no release;
It knows no other way.
Time will not hold still,
And still, I can’t move on.
Today, just the will,
Tomorrow it too’s gone.

Disturbing, the peace.
The quiet contemplation.
The voice of surcease—
Voice of alienation.
Echo of a breeze,
Once cool upon the skin.
Now lost to the seas
Of far mightier men.

Disturbing, the peace.
‘Succumb to its slow sway.
Like an aged caprice,
You knew could never stay.
Mystery within,
‘See the blood on the fold.
Fingers put to the skin,
Well they turn me ice-cold.

Disturbing the peace
Of a long frozen smile—
Ever conscious increase
Of emotional denial.
Standing near the altar,
‘Look to an empty hand.
Were we set up to falter,
Or just by ourselves damned?

Michael Anderson

5/22/2015

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2015-05-22 05:40 PM

Ahhh . . . It is so good to see you revert back to who you are, and who you will always be, Michael. Oh yes, this is you, and that venture into the unknown you have chanced to cast your net toward something which put smiles on your fact, ahh . . . but we all knew it was only a sham. So! Good to see you back among the dammed . . .

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

Michael

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Posts 7666
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2 posted 2015-05-22 06:35 PM

Actually, Jer, this poem is not about me and Tanya... just more about the silent nature of this forum of late. Some of us who have been here from the get just long for the old days... when there were far more voices here, and a lot less hovering in silence. Tanya understands my darkness, and loves me through it, not because she thinks she can change it... all I have ever asked of anyone, yet never received until now.

Michael

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

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South Louisiana

3 posted 2015-05-22 06:52 PM

I seem to always misread you. I guess there is a remedy for that.

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

devina
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since 1999-10-28

Posts 3539
Cali

4 posted 2015-05-22 07:22 PM

Ouch! ...steppin' on broken glass in here.

I love this cloudy picture you paint darlin' (*WHILE SMILING, no less?) I have learned to read you well in these past..?..15+ Years (!) on Pip. Long time mister, and you are a true master of emotion, in any aspect of poetry you choose to scribe. But? Your Dark will always resonate deepest within me.

Love this title and I ache over the hush of our old friends too.
~always T

"..But a tyrant spell has bound me,
And I cannot, cannot go.."
~Emily Bronte
'The Night is Darkening Around Me'

Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

5 posted 2015-05-23 09:37 PM

Cloudy, eh, Tanya? I guess I bleed a lil too darkly for the masses, don't I? Nothing new there. Glad you understand me, reason enough to smile these days. Thank you, love.

Michael

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