(Australiana Challenge) I can't reach to embrace you down in Australia.

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brian madden
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since 2000-05-06

Posts 4374
ireland

0 posted 2000-09-01 07:54 PM

I have strangely developed some strong connections with Australia,I just can't escape the place and it seems as if I will end up there sometime in the future. This is dedicated to two special people in my life (who know who they are should they get the chance to read this poem).

This one is light on the metaphors, heavy on the emotions.

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Hello my soul mate
I missed you get upon the plane,
disappear to follow forbidden life,
and the loss it cuts through like a knife,
what would I give to be with you in Australia?
a trail of memories I now follow, stay close to me.

Hello bright angel,
Exploding out on my scene,
You feed me fine with soft words
and compassion we traded lust and love
and ran naked down on the line.
I am confused, I want to be with you
to know that what I might feel
will be stand be warm and real,
But great distances separate,
I can't reach to embrace you down in Australia.

One may return to lighten my days,
Speak again, cups of tea in the café
and memories, together content.
Meanwhile I feel my other close friend slip
away, slow down I said, I need time to assess,
I love the energy and warmth you possess,
but while intensity fuels it also threatens to drown.
I am lost in you and finding her, you have led
deeper still, I love you but I don't know just how,
how far are our limits, will they stretched to Australia?

I am kissing you in dreams and
holding her, a soul mate platonically.
my heart beats at a different speed
for both of you, jealously not needed,
I can't quite understand where to lay my feet.
It would be so much easier to let things
blossom, out of scene, in Australia.

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"I concede relationships have left me weak Won't be here so I don't care Look for something worthy to replace my guilt" Mansun legacy

[This message has been edited by brian madden (edited 09-01-2000).]

SpitFire
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since 2000-04-19

Posts 2396

1 posted 2000-09-01 08:06 PM

~Amazing! You are Amazing! Your words speak this soft, and casually innocent, sort of just this light and open and honest way. (how many adj. can I get in there?) Seriously though, this is gOOOd stuff! Yum. Take care B. *Peace.

poutprincess
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since 2000-07-06

Posts 735
Perth, Western Australia, Australia

2 posted 2000-09-02 12:27 PM

there are so many beautiful things in australia to embrace, hope you get that chance one day...........and i should get off my backside and do my own australiana poem!
always a job well done!
~Dawn

"Steady as it comes, right down to you, I've said it all, so maybe we're a Bliss of another kind" Bliss-Tori Amos

Butterflies_dont_cry
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since 2000-03-06

Posts 3733
Michigan

3 posted 2000-09-02 12:35 PM

Brian*
The light side of your heart is showing my friend..and let me say it looks wonderful on you

Beautiful work!!

Kethry
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since 2000-07-29

Posts 9082
Victoria Australia

4 posted 2000-09-02 01:13 AM

Brian, this was light beautifully shaded with dark, instead of the reverse. I loved it. Thank you for replying to the challenge so brilliantly.

Be well
Kethry

"It is the image in the mind that links us to lost treasures;
but it is the loss that shapes the image,
gathers the flowers weaves the garland."-

Beth
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since 2000-07-06

Posts 468
WA, Australia

5 posted 2000-09-02 01:34 AM

~Oh, You are good at challenges!!
This was full of promise and hope..
Great Job!!.
Beth~

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