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Beside You |
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Kevin Taylor Member
since 1999-12-23
Posts 185near Vancouver, BC, Canada 
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Her hair is red/blond/basic black and now she's never coming back again. You met her on a holiday you can't recall without her there. She's moved along and left you holding empty air. Empty rooms and empty halls fill the days you can't recall and left an empty bed alone beside you. You met her on a summer day - or was it winter, who can say? Like falling leaves you fell one as the other. And then one day she said goodbye without a word. She said goodbye. Her eyes had someone else inside. You stood there trying to decide which lip was smiling. Now every girl you see instead and every time you turn your head and all the names of every street the colours of the sky at night the act of dawn, the smell of white whatever tells you you're alive tells you that you're dead inside. You hear her laugh in empty rooms. Count her ribs but they're your own. Wake up with the afternoon so you don't have to feel alone. And then one day she's gone inside. You bring her back and let her slide away again. Now mornings fade from grey to green and somewhere in the days between you catch an eye. She catches you. And spends a night or maybe two. The hallway and the living room. The shower and the kitchen floor. What else had they existed for? Her altar hips, your praying lips, her shuddered thighs, your tongue inside, the I-love-you's that were your guide. And home again. Now every smell of every flower every early morning shower all the songs on every street the colors of the sky at night the act of dawn, the smell of white whatever tells you you're a man tells me you're alive again beside me. < !signature--> Kevin [This message has been edited by kevintaylor (edited 01-02-2000).] |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
Great poem, Kevin! Denise |
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Pepper Member Elite
since 1999-08-19
Posts 3079Southern Florida |
Wonderful Kevin!! I do so enjoy your work... A soul that writes from the heart and shares it, truly gives a gift extraordinaire! Shannon |
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mama duck Junior Member
since 1999-12-31
Posts 41Northern California |
I enjoyed this a lot. Very nice, Kevin.  |
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Echo Rhayne Senior Member
since 1999-09-17
Posts 1495Canyon Country, CA |
awww I liked this one a lot! ~*~ ^i^ ~*~ Love is such a lonely art, and death is but a taste. Minds are merely instruments that often go to waste! ~*~ ^i^ ~*~ |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
Kevin, this poem really grabbed me! Excellent atmosphere and I love your word usage. 'Her eyes had someone else inside' - that makes the whole verse. Well done. ...I am not a painter, I am a poet... F. O'Hara |
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samsonheart Member
since 1999-12-20
Posts 72Missouri rez. |
Great poem, Kevin. samsonheart |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
"Her eyes had someone else inside"..... Haven't we all seen those eyes? Nice job, Kevin  |
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whiskey
since 1999-12-28
Posts 1278Australia |
Wonderful Kevin , Great poem |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
This poem was wonderful to read. Very well done! In the dew of little things, the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. (ee cummings) |
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