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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

0 posted 1999-09-05 03:30 AM

DRIFTING

Like the ripples in the water
From a stone thrown to the sea.
Images of a life with you
Drift away to memory.

While the point of origin
Lies as vapid as a tomb.
The mystery of the golden key
Which unlocks this doorless room.

Where I hold high my lantern to the sky,
But can never seem to see -
Outside the painted windows
Of self-inflicted misery.

Where love may come and love may go,
But love may never stay.
Within the catacombs of twisted hope,
Where abandoned embraces lay.

An empty echo bouncing silently
Off the mirror, a hollowed soul.
In backwards glance, one lone, lost chance
To make a broken life seem whole.

~one voice~
Senior Member

since 1999-07-08

Posts 664
Billings, MT USA

1 posted 1999-09-05 07:02 AM

I have the perfect reply to this... but I'd have to post it... it's a poem as well, and kind of long... be on the look-out!

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~onevoice~

"She looked at her life
like lines, never-ending,
constantly forming,
reforming and bending."

hoot_owl_rn
Member Patricius

since 1999-07-05

Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA

2 posted 1999-09-05 08:30 AM

A very touching and sincere piece of poetry. May you find what you seek

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"Nobody has measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold" ~Zelda Fitzgerald

caroline
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since 1999-08-16

Posts 1218
http://members.xoom.com/belladona123/index.htm

3 posted 1999-09-05 10:21 AM

An impressive piece...It is as though I am looking into a mirror.

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The only man worth your tears will never make you cry...

Seymour Tabin
Member Empyrean

since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

4 posted 1999-09-05 10:52 AM

Michael,
Mirror, mirror on the wall
Who's the sadest of them all.
Enjoyed the poem.

Sue
Member

since 1999-08-04

Posts 383
France

5 posted 1999-09-05 01:52 PM

The first stanza made me cry.

poetFemmeFatale
Member Elite

since 1999-07-25

Posts 2646
Arkansas

6 posted 1999-09-07 02:37 AM

Oh Michael....your last stanza really captured me, almost made me feel empty & hollow myself....fabulous imagery! Once again, your work just makes me want to crawl inside you and take a look around.....hhmmm...Have desperately missed reading your work while I was away! So glad to be back....in your words. ***blowing kisses

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I beckon you to come...I lure you with my tongue... - poet FemmeFatale

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