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RobertB
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0 posted 2000-03-26 06:02 PM


Let it Go


Picking scabs
forever keeping
the wound open
delaying only
the inevitable scar.

Robert



 if you can dream; you can fly...if you are flying; you are dreaming.



© Copyright 2000 RobertB - All Rights Reserved
Rosemary J. Gwaltney
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1 posted 2000-03-26 06:22 PM


I liked your tiny, meaningful, intriguing poem, so visited your site.  Found that your mind is overflowing with excellent inspiration.  I've bookmarked it, and will be enjoying it for a long time to come.  Thank you for sharing.


Corinne
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2 posted 2000-03-26 07:10 PM


We don't know how to heal, do we?

You're the king of concise, Robert.


Corinne

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Hurricane Alley
3 posted 2000-03-26 07:13 PM


My scars throb at the reading of this poem....
Denise
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4 posted 2000-03-26 07:58 PM


Wise words, Robert!

Denise

RobertB
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5 posted 2000-03-26 08:04 PM


Thank you Roemary (the name of my first babysitter....she was sooo cool)

I finally learned how to heal Corinne...it too was painful...the learning of it.

I feel your throbs PDV....all of them...

Denise.....your check as they say...is in the mail!!!

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6 posted 2000-03-26 08:12 PM


Robert~
Again bowing to your ability to
take a miniscule thought and magnify
it with so few words.
Does that make sense?
Reminds me of the effects of Haiku.
Loving your work.
~*Marge*~


 ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
noles1@totcon.com


serenity blaze
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7 posted 2000-03-26 10:52 PM


Oh yes.  This is perfect in its' simplicity and wisdom.  You are on a roll, RobertB!
Nan
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8 posted 2000-03-26 11:06 PM


Well, how do you get more explicit than this???..
WhtDove
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since 1999-07-22
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Illinois
9 posted 2000-03-26 11:14 PM


Eww, in one way, and great in the other...  
Glad to see ya still around now and then!

Rex Allen McCoy
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10 posted 2000-03-26 11:52 PM


I guess most of us are suckers for punishment
I know I am
thats why I hate to admit it ... but your right

Rex}>{{{{o>

RobertB
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11 posted 2000-03-27 07:19 AM


to be human is to hurt.....to be human is to heal....or perhaps to be poetic is to feel way too much.....I am not sure any more.

Robert

Meadowmuse
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12 posted 2000-03-27 08:22 AM


I must wonder if any of us are ever really sure, Robert. Do we keep that wound fresh to remind us that we are alive? Excellent reflection, yet again.

~ Claire

hoot_owl_rn
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13 posted 2000-03-27 11:03 AM


So much said in so few words..as always Robert, it is a delight to read your work  
RobertB
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14 posted 2000-03-27 10:27 PM


Again thanks Claire and Ruth....

I believe that you may have touched on something Claire.....maybe we do keep the hurt alive to remind or as a memorial. Much to think on eh??

Robert

monique
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15 posted 2000-03-28 03:00 AM


WOW!
What a big difference
Being here
I told you you were good


monique

RobertB
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16 posted 2000-03-28 08:12 AM


Monique!!! I am so glad you are here also!!
mete out
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england
17 posted 2000-03-28 08:34 AM


***Robert,
So concise, yet so moving.
Thankyou so much for echoing so much of me here in this poem.


 I am not a preacher, I just speak the world as I see it.



RobertB
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Champaign, IL
18 posted 2000-03-28 06:09 PM


You are most welcome mete out.....yet I am sorry that in some way you have been touched by having to let it go.

Robert

Andrew Scott
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19 posted 2000-03-28 07:39 PM


RB:  Thumbs up and all my toes too on this that says so much with so little.
CherylLynnMckee
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20 posted 2000-03-28 07:49 PM


Boy for a small poem..it says alot..truer words never spoken.

 

RobertB
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Champaign, IL
21 posted 2000-03-29 07:46 AM


Hello Andrew!!! and thanks

Nice to meet you Cheryl.....you may find that about all I do is small poems!!!! Thank you.


Robert

Tess
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since 2000-03-22
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Australia
22 posted 2000-03-29 07:54 AM


you have a great way with words...been trying to do that..but l ramble too much
and definitely struck a note too...so true!
so why do we do it huh?
wish l knew

great work!


 "Love is the only drug you can take that will convince you each time
that you've never had it before."
~author unknown~



Elizabeth Santos
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since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269
Pennsylvania
23 posted 2000-03-29 07:54 AM


Not only delays the scar, but makes it worse!
Enjoyed
Liz

RobertB
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Posts 1104
Champaign, IL
24 posted 2000-03-29 06:18 PM


and we risk the chance of infection
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