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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California 
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OBLIVION < !signature-->Who will satisfy the sandpipers of Oblivion? Who dares draw a sword to quell their song? To lay waste such intoxicating judgements of one's sanctity, of one's purity, of one's trust? Where is it written that Love lives in abundance? That dreams never die? That Hope is eternal? What motivates Greed? What satiates Lust? When will the answers come, Will I know of their arrival? Or have they come already, merely choosing to overlook these starstruck eyes of dissension. To withhold forever the salve of wounds festering in alienation. Drip by drip distilling all clarity of thought, all peace of mind all sanity of soul... Why do I hang on when all around me has let go? Is this my strength? my weakness? my curse? Who am I, that Death, himself, would not have me? that Time teases with slow decay by swift moving hands I can never hold... How am I to break chains I cannot see? How am I to embrace what is not there? Did tomorrow not die in that melee called Yesterday? Tell me then, my friend, How am yet to live? Michael Anderson For all behind was dark and drear, And all before was night and fear. How many hours of night or day In those suspended pangs I lay, I could not tell; I scarcely knew If this were human breath I drew. Lord Byron [This message has been edited by Michael (edited 04-04-2000).] |
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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
You ask some powerful questions in a very thought-provoking poem. Excellent! |
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Balladeer
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Well, I don't have the answers, Michael, but I certainly enjoy the way you ask the questions. Excellent writing once again. |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
Just when I think I've got a handle on your work, you send me to Oblivion....  |
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mariee66 Senior Member
since 2000-01-30
Posts 596Recess, OfYourMind |
This is intense~ Your writing is divine~ Marie~ "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind." The Bard |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
How I like this, Michael, Oblivion is hell(Serenity typed with authority.)--smiles, please---I studied with this guy once (Yes, STUDIED, for all my kindred dirty minds out there...) He was Incredible, too. Said that if love was energy, then to think of myself as a battery, with positive and negative poles. He said further that positive and negative were misleading terms-- to be more accurate, I should learn to think of it as active/receptive--that it was only the perceived absence of this energy that I termed negative. Not sure if this helps, but if it doesn't, please everybody, talk to the guru dude--the only genuine rocket scientist I have ever met! Now. Would another hug be too redundant? |
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Butterflies_dont_cry Member Elite
since 2000-03-06
Posts 3733Michigan |
Vert powerful writing Michael!! You are still as amazing as ever!! Hold me for yesterday Kiss me for tomorrow But love me for today. |
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hsystems Member
since 2000-03-28
Posts 319Murray, UT, USA |
Very profound, Michael - thanks for sharing!  Troy Beautiful, Thought-Provoking Poetry http://www.h-systems.net/p1.htm |
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devina Member Elite
since 1999-10-28
Posts 3539Cali |
This sounded much more effective coming from your lips sweetheart...but I'll settle for reading it the second time around!!!  Once again you've amazed my mind...me thinks you do that on purpose!!!! Just don't ever stop!!!! *kisses* Open arms can be the most fragile in the world... |
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Elizabeth Santos Member Rara Avis
since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269Pennsylvania |
Sometimes you take thoughts out of my mind and put them into words that I never would have thought of. I have been in the place you have just travelled. Time does seem to "tease with slow decay" And you do feel as if tomorrow has died "in that melee called yesterday" Wonderful words from an extraordinary poet Liz |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
Powerful strokes of your pen with this one  |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California |
Balladeer, I think you're holding back on at least a few of them answers, comon - help me out here... Nan, you ever get a handle on any part of me, let me know where it is, would ya? serenity, na - give me a hug already... (((HUG))) devina, and everything is much sweeter coming off your lips, also. Liz, heck of a road, ain't it? Thank you all for the kind replies. Michael |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
This is wonderful, Michael... I think many of us have been haunted by those questions... battering at our minds without answers... you just captured them and lined them up into a great poem! *G* |
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doreen peri Member Elite
since 1999-05-25
Posts 3812Virginia |
Damn, Michael! I wish I wrote this! Very fine writing, my friend. |
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