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Just Words (one of my first poems)
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Just Words (one of my first poems) |
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Auguste 
since 2000-02-16
Posts 3953By the sea 
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Just Words by Michael They're only words I sometimes write You give them value that I don't They're simple words borne out of want That bare my heart to give it light They will outlive the flesh of me In a closet gathering dust For therapy, in these I trust So I will have no need to flee In words I clothe myself it seems To hide the often naked truth To heal the wounds from out my youth To piece back all the shattered dreams They are just words, no wordsmith I I write of things I'd like to see And often write from memory I know I will until I die These words are but a tiny part Of what it takes to make the whole The bath I use to cleanse the soul My medicine to aid the heart They're only just a part of me There's so much more you'll never know I'll take that with me when I go Like waves drawn back into the sea The stars will shine when I am gone The earth will turn on as before The gulls still race along the shore The morning star still kiss the dawn You read and yet know not the man The author of so many lines The heart that beat within your times The calloused feet that walked the sand But I am so like everyone And all you see are so like me We cork our contents, lest they flee Until our lives are spent and done Michael Auguste~ |
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Titia Geertman Member Ascendant
since 2001-05-07
Posts 5182Netherlands |
These words are but a tiny part Of what it takes to make the whole The bath I use to cleanse the soul My medicine to aid the heart That's what it all comes down to, isn't it, I like these lines very, very much  You keep digging them oldies up Auguste. Titia A rose is a rose is a rose...I guess... |
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catalinamoon
since 2000-06-03
Posts 9543The Shores of Alone |
Michael, you always were a wordsmith, apparently  This is a stanza I especially liked "They're only just a part of me There's so much more you'll never know I'll take that with me when I go Like waves drawn back into the sea" Sandra |
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walker Member Elite
since 2001-02-11
Posts 2240Florida |
Words are our "threads" to the world. Beautifully expressed! |
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Dee Member Elite
since 2000-08-19
Posts 2330Queensland, Australia |
Michael, your words always touch my heart, either with simple beauty or wonder at the complexness of them.  Dee I wish you every happiness and may you always have the best of the good things in life. a brand |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
yes.... I can relate to this one.. and find you have said it quite well... Very nice |
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mpt Junior Member
since 2001-07-22
Posts 32australia |
"In words I clothe myself it seems To hide the often naked truth To heal the wounds from out my youth To piece back all the shattered dreams" i relate to this the best, as more often than not, it is pain or hardship that inspires my writings excellently written Though dreams can be deceiving |
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Honeybee Member Ascendant
since 1999-12-26
Posts 5372Ontario, CANADA |
Wow, Michael, it's hard to believe that this is one of your first poems, you penned it so wonderfully, into my library this goes, I really love it Melissa~ |
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Martie
Moderator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Michael--you are a poet and a friend...I'm glad for both! |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
beautiful |
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