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Approaching the White...Slowly
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Approaching the White...Slowly |
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JLR Senior Member
since 2001-02-04
Posts 1785 |
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. |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
and the white page beckons you, and reckons you, and tells you....not now.... I feel with you....a good write, JLR.... |
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ATelamon Member
since 2001-02-06
Posts 328Purgatory, Last Staircase, Up |
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 [This message has been edited by ATelamon (edited 03-15-2001).] |
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Paula Finn Member Ascendant
since 2000-06-17
Posts 5546missouri |
UH HUH you know I know...damn girl this is great writing... |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
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! [This message has been edited by suthern (edited 03-16-2001).] |
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JLR Senior Member
since 2001-02-04
Posts 1785 |
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. |
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Just A Woman Senior Member
since 2001-03-10
Posts 507 |
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~ |
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walker Member Elite
since 2001-02-11
Posts 2240Florida |
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. |
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Kethry Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-29
Posts 9082Victoria Australia |
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. |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
all it takes is that first step. . .after that. . . it gets easier. . . excellent my friend. . . ---------------------------------------------------------- To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world. |
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Katherine Chandler Member
since 2001-03-07
Posts 280Florida, USA |
Simply beautiful.. Kate Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T S Eliot |
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