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Elegy For the Invisible Ones
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Elegy For the Invisible Ones |
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Le Goobairre Extrodinarre New Member
since 1999-10-20
Posts 2 |
Elegy For the Invisible Ones A solitary at table, insipid food on his tray, forgotten picture, as he'd been one day... by a wife long gone on; by children on their own busied way, problems with their four, nearly-grown; by Time's ruthless march; by old friends, names tongue-tip, faces clear, yester-year, yesterday when the trip he'd made to see them was a short one to the mall... he's alone with bland food's bathetic recall. Like vellum parchment, timeworn, blue-veined hands lift a fork, pause mid-air... as if stern demands of important checklists were slowly ticking off... he bows in blessing of his fare. Picking off his plate one bean, inspecting, ingesting in quiet resignation, he investing with honor mastication, so hesitant lest blandness render the taste nonextant. Clamor, words everywhere, none to him direct, unnoticed, invisible, absent disrespect, all convey cognizance of personal wellbeing, no pretense of blindness impairing their seeing. To himself, a wasteland, a complacent lone monument, emptiness etched in human stone, weathered face unaware other eyes would find him, sits the wretched dinner guest, without ties to bind him. --Le Goobairre Extrodinarre , , , , . Poems From the Goober Tree http://nathoo.wustl.edu/goober_tree.htm |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
GOOBER ALERT!!...Yee Hah!! |
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Le Goobairre Extrodinarre New Member
since 1999-10-20
Posts 2 |
smooooooooooooooooooocheaux, adorable lady!!! am taking this glorious image along when next driver's licence renewal....a decided improvement!!!!! can't wait to get pulled over and give the cop that pic!!!! encore de smooooooooocheaux!!! LeGoob |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
LeGoob, I enjoyed this very much, knew I would! Go Goobers!  ------------------ Denise |
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Watcher666 Senior Member
since 1999-10-13
Posts 1606 |
Well done verse! Liked this much!  ------------------ Illusion...what we see and what we do...it's all up to you. |
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Dr.Moose1 Member Elite
since 1999-09-05
Posts 3448Bewilderment , USA |
Most observent , very well put . Is this written from a point of having been there , or did you do a Vulcan mind-meld with your subject ? |
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snow in summer Member
since 1999-08-28
Posts 67 |
So evocative! |
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Pepper Member Elite
since 1999-08-19
Posts 3079Southern Florida |
Most Excellent!! ------------------ A soul that writes from the heart and shares it, truly gives a gift extraordinaire! |
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