Approaching the White...Slowly

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JLR
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since 2001-02-04

Posts 1785

0 posted 2001-03-15 07:49 PM

Approaching the White…Slowly

What am I supposed to do
with all this restlessness, all this
thinking of you
if not write
of you, words you’ll never read?

Am I to relive nights I’ll never know again
rage against a sin I don’t concede
pray into a night that only begs to sleep
perhaps…admit that you are gone.

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

1 posted 2001-03-15 07:51 PM

and the white page beckons you, and reckons you, and tells you....not now....

I feel with you....a good write, JLR....

ATelamon
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since 2001-02-06

Posts 328
Purgatory, Last Staircase, Up

2 posted 2001-03-15 08:01 PM

Some by memories live
some so inspired die madly

seeing you through of tearing
out chunks in heartbreaths demand

the swirliing moments elixer
nepenthe in hand quaff slowly

The range of motion of the mind
is measured by ones ability to rise

and rise again though the bloodruns savage cataracting eyes you paint tomorrows sunrise

I doubt any of us are given a certificate of ease, a pass of painlessness to walk through life. Its vagaries though remember are our mirrors. And so we sow a soul.

"life is more than a thoughtway of learning, it is a fight to be free. Be your own hero. Save your interior landscape. As in all mythos the blight ca

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Paula Finn
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since 2000-06-17

Posts 5546
missouri

3 posted 2001-03-16 01:44 AM

UH HUH you know I know...damn girl this is great writing...

suthern

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since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

4 posted 2001-03-16 12:14 PM

I think we can all relate to writing the hurt... not because that will make it go away but because we don't know what else to do with it... well done!

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JLR
Senior Member

since 2001-02-04

Posts 1785

5 posted 2001-03-16 12:49 PM

Sunshine---I played with a 3rd verse saying just that! But decided to leave it with a question.

AT---You read me too well!

Paula---Where ya been? Thanks.

Suthern---Absolutely!

Thanks to all.

Just A Woman
Senior Member

since 2001-03-10

Posts 507

6 posted 2001-03-16 01:45 PM

Powerful ending, my friend........Be gentle with yourself. Is a very rough place to be.
I truly love your writing!

"When people show you who they are, believe them"

~Maya Angelou~

walker
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since 2001-02-11

Posts 2240
Florida

7 posted 2001-03-16 05:41 PM

This is very beautiful, but painful poem.Keep writing, it will help you through it all.

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

Kethry
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-29

Posts 9082
Victoria Australia

8 posted 2001-03-16 07:16 PM

JLR,
when you write
onto the white
your coloured thought
could come to naught
but write you must
to build up trust
and write you will
sorrow to kill
to bear the pain
and rise again
and so my song
rise up, write on
Kethry

Those of us who refuse to risk and grow get swallowed up by life. Patty Hansen.

Sven

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since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

9 posted 2001-03-16 10:36 PM

all it takes is that first step. . .after that. . . it gets easier. . .

excellent my friend. . .

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Katherine Chandler
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since 2001-03-07

Posts 280
Florida, USA

10 posted 2001-03-16 11:55 PM

Simply beautiful.. Kate

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T S Eliot

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