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Open Poetry #3

Imagination

Martie

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

0 posted 1999-10-22 11:12 PM

Imaginations that glimpse
the tantalizing
are free to create any patina
they choose.
a finger, a dimple,
the sleek slide of a shoulder,
can become blemish free
and more fertile and tactile then reality.

The allusive is so alluring.
Like a butterfly
it darts past the corner of our eye,
flits nervously around the halo of our
freshly shampooed hair
floats nebulous and free
on a tide of air,
then leaves us to
our purple haze of memory.

We have not been there
for the agony of birth
from the chrysalis of change
nor do we even know if wings
hurt when stuck together with
the glue of beginning.
What if, that day it is storming
and some errant rip of air
tears the gossamer fluid grace
of wing, before it can fly?

We float with the butterfly,
across a vision that we can build or shatter
to our choosing
and leave the sad and broken body
of reality to turn to dust,
alone.

Denise

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

1 posted 1999-10-22 11:31 PM

Oh, this is just magnificent! I loved this one very much!

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Denise

Ohme
Senior Member

since 1999-07-17

Posts 816
Texas

2 posted 1999-10-23 12:54 PM

I like the imagery, the message. Uh huh, I love the poem.

Watcher666
Senior Member

since 1999-10-13

Posts 1606

3 posted 1999-10-23 04:36 AM

Beautiful! Loved it!

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Illusion...what we see and what we do...it's all up to you.

hoot_owl_rn
Member Patricius

since 1999-07-05

Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA

4 posted 1999-10-23 10:48 AM

Very nicely written, everything flows so smoothly

Trynete
Junior Member

since 1999-09-01

Posts 35
Cape Cod, MA

5 posted 1999-10-23 10:49 AM

I LOVE IT!!!

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To live is to love, and to love is to live... the meaning of life.

Seymour Tabin
Member Empyrean

since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

6 posted 1999-10-23 10:58 AM

Martie,
This one is a keeper.
Excellent choice of words and thought.
Enjoyed the read.

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