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mysticpoe
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since 2003-02-28
Posts 883


0 posted 2003-12-08 11:17 AM



Your view
extended beyond the snowcap
distance from which you lived.
Long ago, it seems now
those trailing come-backs
so often noticed, then,
were they a part
of that other feeling
you always offered
at the right moment
when you found me, knowing
that something was there.
Holding onto my shyness
with suggesting clouds
that I could not see.
You brought me again
To this place.
For one more answer in time,
never to really know
until such endings, eventually
dissolved, for both us as we
at last, enter - and
now play apart of this view.
We always knew.

If nothing is something
then everything is
our thoughts and feelings
and all that exists.

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Craw
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since 2003-09-11
Posts 73
Scotland
1 posted 2003-12-09 11:23 AM




I like the feel of this, the kind of tense breathlessness of it, but as it stands parts of it are impenetrable, eg

"...never to really know
until such endings, eventually
dissolved, for both of us as we
at last, enter..."

"Long ago, it seems now
those trailing comebacks
so often noticed, then,
were they a part
of that other feeling..."

I think you could keep the pace of this but simplify the clumsy constructions, something like,

Your view
extended beyond the snowcap
distance where you lived.
Long ago it seems now.
Were these (trailing) comebacks
a part of those feelings,
offered...

It wouldn't be hard to chop a path. As I say, there's an anxious pace to the piece I like.

"Holding onto my shyness
with suggesting clouds"
sounds ludicrous as it stands.

mysticpoe
Senior Member
since 2003-02-28
Posts 883

2 posted 2003-12-09 11:40 AM


Craw, thanks so much for taking the time to read and respond. I appreciate you helping me out here. I'll try a new revision on this; taking into account your suggestions. Thanks again.

wayne

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