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Allan Riverwood

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since 2001-01-04

Posts 3502
Winnipeg

0 posted 2001-03-25 03:50 PM

(In response to Marina's challenge- /pip/Forum7/HTML/000342.html )

A man lives long, but he lives short
A life is lost, so we must gain
Once at rest, with eyes closed tightly
Not to open once again
A man has lived, so he must lie
Beneath the flowers of his past
No more binding, crying slightly
One more tear to be the last
A man loves not, the man must smile
A love so far away from there
And reaching outward, nothing finding
Curling fingers in despair
A man loves long, for what he wants
For something ever far away
Reality, the demon binding
In our world a man must stay
A man falls dead, for he has lived
Walking far too long, too swift
Nothing worth it, fighting futile
Here he lies, in love adrift
A man falls dead, but he can laugh
It echoes on the wind, each year
And if you answer him with laughter
Pray that somehow, he will hear

Child of the Stars

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since 2000-09-07

Posts 1658
Ann Arbor, MI

1 posted 2001-03-25 03:52 PM

Amazing...need I say more?

~Carly

"The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake."
- Leonardo da Vinci

Elizabeth

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since 1999-06-07

Posts 6871
Minnesota

2 posted 2001-03-25 04:38 PM

You've met the challenge! I'll echo Carly's 'amazing.'

Dee
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since 2000-08-19

Posts 2330
Queensland, Australia

3 posted 2001-03-25 05:01 PM

Well done Allan! I liked it.

Dee

I wish you every happiness and may you always have the best of the good things in life. a brand

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

4 posted 2001-03-25 05:06 PM

Allan, you continue to write like this, and you will have a following....trust me! Well done Sir!

Allan Riverwood

Member Elite

since 2001-01-04

Posts 3502
Winnipeg

5 posted 2001-03-25 05:24 PM

Carly- Thanks kiddo!

Ya know I love you!
Elizabeth- Your praise means a lot! It was fun to do... I'd like to see more of you try this out!
Dee- Thank you.

This just might be the challenge you asked for, to get you dusting off your pen.
Sunshine- Thanks for your praise. And I already do have one of those.

If I had your eyes, I'd be blind. For I can only see out of my own. ~~Carly Van Dort

Sven

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since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

6 posted 2001-03-25 06:44 PM

superb Allan. . . really well done my friend. . .

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