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Celeste
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since 2000-11-11
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0 posted 2000-11-16 06:49 PM


Can you hear it
between us?
This gray mist of
sudden uncertainty
slowly creeping in
distorting features once so
crystal clear
and leaving shadows in your eyes that
I can't read
coating the two of us until
I can't recognize you at all
Can only
stare at this stranger
that sometimes reminds me
of you


To capture and live a moment is truly living

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kaile
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singapore
1 posted 2000-11-16 06:58 PM


Can only
stare at this stranger
that sometimes reminds me
of you

simply written but very haunting ending...i liked

Celeste
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2 posted 2000-11-16 07:04 PM


Thank you Kaile.....Appriciate that, as I rather debated on that ending.

To capture and live a moment is truly living

aurora rain
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3 posted 2000-11-16 07:06 PM


it's a beautiful poem, well worded. amazingly well worded.

but just out of curiousity, what is it with the line breaks? they seem a bit sharp and awkward at points. sorry to criticise...but they seem unnatural.  

ethome
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since 2000-05-14
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New Brunswick Canada
4 posted 2000-11-16 08:52 PM


You got the sound of frustrated hopelessness written into this one very well!! It came across to me as strangers under the same roof...ethome
Celeste
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5 posted 2000-11-16 08:57 PM


Thank you, Ethome........appriciate that.  

To capture and live a moment is truly living

Martie
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6 posted 2000-11-16 08:58 PM


It's true, sometimes someone we thought we knew...changes, or the relationship changes...and we don't know them at all..you have expressed this well...so sad.
Butterflies_dont_cry
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since 2000-03-06
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Michigan
7 posted 2000-11-16 08:58 PM


Dreamkeeper* Those layers of gray have a
time and a place in every relationship it
seems...we can only hope to hang on until
the sun melts the clouds away...great
writing~


You cannot dance in the sun until you have cried in the rain~

DreamSeeker
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since 2000-11-17
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8 posted 2000-11-17 07:49 AM


Moments Uncertain
Tear through the Heart
On Strings Quivers
Deep Down Revolts

Inside You Know
This Storm A Tempest
Will Pass With The Dawn
Knowing Love Never Stopped

dragonpoe
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since 2000-11-12
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Palm Bay, Florida
9 posted 2000-11-17 08:22 AM


This one moves into my heart, for it holds a cold, unbearable truth for me in this time of my life.
Thanks for being able to voice something that I have yet been able to find the strength to say.
PS, may I have permission to send this through one of the e-cards here to someone I think needs to read this?
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With the word, I am mighty, with the pen I am free..
dragonpoe


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Celeste
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10 posted 2000-11-17 08:31 AM


dragonpoe, thank you so much!  Yes, please do.  Am so glad it touched you that way....


DreamSeeker, Great to see you here!  And yes, so very true.  Thank you.

Butterflies_Don't_Cry:  You couldn't be more right.  So very very true.  Thankfully that time for me has passed.

Martie:  Yes....you've said this very well.  Hard to remember sometimes that everything changes, or goes through changes.  Thank you so much for commenting!

To capture and live a moment is truly living

doreen peri
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Virginia
11 posted 2000-11-17 07:11 PM


"and leaving shadows in your eyes that
I can't read
coating the two of us until
I can't recognize you at all"

great lines here
a fine piece
thanks for the read

passing shadows
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displaced
12 posted 2004-04-18 08:25 PM


gawd! i relate!
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