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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA 
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The Poet She sits alone, pen in hand, the paper before her taunts her with it’s whiteness. Empty and void as it is; it dares her to fill it with her emotions. The pen glides effortlessly across it’s smooth surface; filling the page with words; filling the page with energy. Here she is once more, writing her thoughts for all the world to know. Feelings once held inside, now in plain view. Sometimes she feels exposed, frightened by the naked truth, so open for others to see. They say the eyes are the windows to the soul... She would have to disagree. ------------------ "Nobody has measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold" ~Zelda Fitzgerald |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
Were you looking through my kitchen window?(hahahaha!) Very good hoot_owl!!  ------------------ Denise |
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Tim Senior Member
since 1999-06-08
Posts 1794 |
Enjoyed... |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
Very nice, Ruth.... I really liked this - partly because I still write my poems with pen and paper - not directly to the screen - Very well done, my friend.... |
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WhtDove Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-22
Posts 9245Illinois |
Wow! That was really good! |
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Balladeer
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
....and I would certainly agree with her disagreement, Hoot. |
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doreen peri Member Elite
since 1999-05-25
Posts 3812Virginia |
Pen & paper? What's that? LOL NIcely written, my friend. Isn't it true how our poetry sometimes makes us feel overly exposed to the world, yet we are excited to find an audience to read it? Sort of a dichotomy. |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Hoot, Nice one. |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
Thank you all for your comments.....I write everything on paper first then transfer to computer ------------------ "Nobody has measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold" ~Zelda Fitzgerald |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Sometimes we feel what little we say can say so much. Well done, as always. |
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Emmy Member
since 1999-06-29
Posts 194KY |
Nice portrayal of a poet...sounds pretty familiar to me! Well done, Hoot. |
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Sue Member
since 1999-08-04
Posts 383France |
I think I've forgotton how to use a pen! Still, it's just as true for a keyboard-pounder. Great poem. |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
Thank you Sunshine, Emmy and Sue...I am still an old fashioned poet. I write everything on paper first as most of my poetry comes to me in a flood of words and often at the most unusual times...like driving down the interstate at 70 miles an hour or at a football game. I have no choice but to write it then and there or lose those thoughts. I write in a very odd way, but sometimes it seems to really work. ------------------ "Nobody has measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold" ~Zelda Fitzgerald |
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