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Milk Glass Bowls Collecting
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Milk Glass Bowls Collecting |
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SpitFire Member Elite
since 2000-04-19
Posts 2396
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I wrote love along the hallway walls, I wrote sadness on the street. If I could photograph your silence, I’d capture the movement in frames. Can you imagine words alone holding my skin together inside of what’s left? There is a dimness that remains above, there is contrast across my face. I count the floor boards by twos and watch them swell at my dismay. If you’d notice the milk glass bowls collecting, instead of forcing blindness in the way, maybe the blood red secrets would soak through the paper lining the way to the end. Maybe the fear would calm, maybe the feet inside my heart would still. Can you imagine words alone, draining yesterday onto stationary too pretty to hold? I wrote a song at midnight for your loss, I held the stars together with fingers and twine. Perhaps the whispers gathering up in piles could trip your experience to the right, possibly lead your tomorrows into nothing. I hoped your eyes would get caught in the hallway, or tangled in the street, at least that way they’d absorb the love and sadness in it’s rawness, ...and the piece of me that hid there. |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
Can you imagine words alone holding my skin together inside of what’s left? There is a dimness that remains above, there is contrast across my face. I count the floor boards by twos and watch them swell at my dismay. If you’d notice the milk glass bowls collecting, instead of forcing blindness in the way, maybe the blood red secrets would soak through the paper lining the way to the end. ================================== Can you imagine words alone, draining yesterday onto stationary too pretty to hold? I wrote a song at midnight for your loss, I held the stars together with fingers and twine. =================================== I hoped your eyes would get caught in the hallway, or tangled in the street, at least that way they’d absorb the love and sadness in it’s rawness, ...and the piece of me that hid there. =================================== "Can you imagine words alone holding my skin together inside of what’s left?" Only an exceptional poet's mind could come up with something like this... we measure so much by our need and love of words........ amazing imagery...intense emote .. if only the ones who matter most would share our poetry.... how well I know. Good to find your name here A.... take care sweet poetess of the porch jm Well tomorrow holds only mystery |
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Member Seraphic
since 2000-01-18
Posts 22676with you |
wow, this is amazing, I can't pick one favorite line, because every one is filled with emotion....and I love them all. this is so amazing  hugs to you |
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SmittenKitten Senior Member
since 2001-06-20
Posts 1131where the sky and horizon meet |
Wow...what a great line! I'd pick them all out and say the same but this one I *really* liked Hugs and such, ~Krista  "Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. |
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Corinne Member Ascendant
since 1999-10-28
Posts 5167state of confusion |
How poingant this is! It's great to read your work again. Corinne |
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EagleOne Member Elite
since 2000-03-07
Posts 2829Between a laugh and a tear... |
I doubt I shall ever tire of reading your amazing work my friend, excellent! Take care! "Let me pierce the realm of glamour |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Once again I read your work and am left so jealous...and convinced I will never write again. It's all so INTIMATE...as it SHOULD be, was it you that I talked about how I love to take walks at night, how you can hears the "elders of time" whisper wisdom then? That's what reading your poetry is like. A peaceful walk through the night. Hugs you, miss you much, and hope all is well with you. |
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Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
SpitFire~ 'Can you imagine words alone, draining yesterday onto stationary too pretty to hold?' I like this thought so much~ Thank you for dropping in and sharing~ *Hugs* ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ |
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catalinamoon
since 2000-06-03
Posts 9543The Shores of Alone |
Oh My, another stunning write from you. So happy to read more of your work, though you sound terribly sad here. All ok? Sandra |
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vlraynes Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-25
Posts 8229Somewhere... out there... |
Spitfire- I really enjoyed these thoughts. Wonderfully done. Hugs, ~Vicky "...until you have read the verse on his heart, |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Your words reveal a heart of amazing raw honesty and sensitivity. "I hoped your eyes would get caught in the hallway, or tangled in the street, at least that way they’d absorb the love and sadness in it’s rawness, ...and the piece of me that hid there." |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
I have to agree with serenity here. . . your work just amazes me. . . every time I read it. . . I'm convinced that I have a long way to go. . . such warmth, such emotion. . . you're so in touch with yourself. . . and it shows. . . indeed, it's good to see you here again. . .and I hope that all is well in your world. . . ------------------------------------------------------- To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world. |
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Lone Wolf Member Ascendant
since 2000-03-16
Posts 5842Lansing, MI USA |
Very profound and deep write, A. I've always thought you wrote on a different level than most of us do. This is intruiging with haunting images. Very well done. Hope all is well with you. Talk soon, ok? ((hug)) J. All writing comes |
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snowpants Member Elite
since 2000-09-16
Posts 2061KS |
'I wrote a song at midnight for your loss, I held the stars together with fingers and twine. Perhaps the whispers gathering up in piles could trip your experience to the right, possibly lead your tomorrows into nothing.' Extremely brilliant use of the English language, SpitFire...I know when I click into one of your posts that I will be reading some seriously intense poetry, and this is no exception...excellent images and emotions...I like this a lot! sp  tried to write a letter |
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Dark Angel Member Patricius
since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095 |
Can you imagine words alone holding my skin together inside of what’s left? ------- There is a dimness that remains above, there is contrast across my face. ------- If you’d notice the milk glass bowls collecting, instead of forcing blindness in the way, maybe the blood red secrets would soak through the paper lining the way to the end. Maybe the fear would calm, maybe the feet inside my heart would still. ----- Can you imagine words alone, draining yesterday onto stationary too pretty to hold? ----- I wrote a song at midnight for your loss, I held the stars together with fingers and twine. ----- I hoped your eyes would get caught in the hallway, or tangled in the street, at least that way they’d absorb the love and sadness in it’s rawness, ...and the piece of me that hid there. Alicia, you're writing is always so intense and it always moves me, leaving me to feel light-headed and with a hunger to write like you. You are an incredible poet m'dear friend. Totally incredible! Hugs Maree |
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SpitFire Member Elite
since 2000-04-19
Posts 2396 |
~Here to thank you wonderful poets for reading and leaving me something in return. Each of your comments are considered gifts, and cherished carefully. You have said such things that fill me, in a way, none other can. A few of you are far too generous in your descriptives I'm sure.  . *Peace and thank you, so much. |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
Can you imagine words alone, draining yesterday onto stationary too pretty to hold? =============================== your "words alone" are amazing. |
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Susan Caldwell Member Rara Avis
since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348Florida |
Write like this?? Hell, I just want to think like this!!! "cast me gently into the morning, for the night has been unkind" |
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