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Mistletoe Angel
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0 posted 2001-03-06 08:28 PM


There And Back Again
By: Noah Eaton
2/22/01

Staring beyond the construction of the future is futile
The sphere of universality revolves all around you, eternity’s cycles overlapping
All that’s avail fluctuates upon you, and you ebb back upon the truth
Can you see?

Gadabout we are, walking forward into the jaws of flying colors
Avaunt from the darkness that stung the wing of destiny’s owl in your soul
Incarnating one’s learning soul beneath, wisdom obtained from ones own teaching
All obliged to know'

Stumbling upon the treadmill of time, averring to what fate may bring
Innocence in time stained in graffiti of all our loose-ends and lies
Waiting to try to find your three feet of personal space, learn from your mistakes
Which later comes to show

Escaping to ones personal fantasy, homeward bound to our dreams
Living love and freedom to its extent, outside of schedules, laws, and agenda
The pain in slipping away back into reality, without love in our arms
Making an effort again to knock the walls between down

Growing older, some would say wiser, eyes of familiar youth flashback again
Mummified in self-appointed axioms, going back and revising through phases of time
The magic of a memory the lighting effects to a fulfilled state of mind
Do you know?

Easy come…easy go…
Couldn’t tell…should have known
You may say you’ll look back on all of this and laugh
You may say you wish you could have changed your past

We’ve been there and we’ve done that
Eyes see faith, doubts even out
Entering that we promise, exiting that we refute
Feeling we're closing in, feeling you're opening yourself out

We march through time, in we ascend the future, out we descend to the past
We all go there…and back again


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1 posted 2001-03-07 04:23 PM


Mistletoe Angel, I've gone by this several times, then stopped and read it several times. I liked the poem, but have lost track of how many times I had to go to the dictionary to look up word meanings. My old brain didn't grow with age, but I did learn a few things. Thanks for the lessons. ME
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2 posted 2001-03-07 08:29 PM


This is deep reading, because is suming up the cycle of life,the questions we ask ourselves in the process, the mistakes,etc. If only our humanity would be more simple. I enjoyed it, read it twice, like I said it was challenge and well written.

A quarter of a century must pass, for the writer to understand what and why he writes.

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3 posted 2001-03-07 09:12 PM


Very thought provoking writing, Angel. You know, I would never change the past even if I could because those lessons have made me who I am today. Had I not gone through all that, I'd be someone totally different. great writing.

Lone Wolf


Poetry should surprise by fine excess...it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts and appear almost a remembrance. -J.Keats

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