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RSWells
Member Elite

since 2001-06-17

Posts 2533

0 posted 2001-11-13 03:00 PM

If it all just stopped.............
the machinery froze
halting the incessant traffic,
the talking heads
in the squawking box silenced,
the gunslinger grab
for the waistband at every funky ring.

If the top forty
had to be dragged from memory,
displayed by a whistle
or learned on an instument,
banged on a drum.

If a vacation
was three counties
away or in the leaves
of a book
and light was Sun or fire,

would the............
silence drive us mad?
Conversation be deafening?

Would marching bands
arouse us
and plays be the thing?

Would we
know our children
or ourselves?

Knock us down Lord.
Down from this frightening height.

Down to where we really are,

just men.

"Happy people have no history" - French Proverb

Elizabeth

Moderator

Member Ascendant

since 1999-06-07

Posts 6871
Minnesota

1 posted 2001-11-13 03:06 PM

Amen, Richard. Not one of us is perfect.

God bless America, my home sweet home.

Startime
Member Ascendant

since 2000-10-03

Posts 5918
Canada

2 posted 2001-11-13 03:18 PM

*sigh* where men can be men and women can be women and the family can learn how to talk again. What a picture of the perfect world you have painted. I am not one that liked the craziness of the world....That is one reason I love the mountains and the ocean. Their silence caresses my soul. I can only say that this is a garden I want to grow. Very well done. I love it.

Your mind is an amazing thing and I really like that way it works. With incredible intelligence and simplicity.

Love I leave with you whether it is in your life now or yet the essense of your dreams.

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

3 posted 2001-11-13 04:09 PM

Perfectamundo. Humbling, without being self-righteously humbugging.

Janet Marie
Member Laureate

since 2000-01-22

Posts 18554

4 posted 2001-11-13 04:20 PM

If a vacation
was three counties
away or in the leaves
of a book
and light was Sun or fire,

would the............
silence drive us mad?
Conversation be deafening?
==================================

Im thinking we'd have quiet time to read and write more poetry

Very insightful write of truth Richard ...
they dont call it a rat race for nothing.
Well done as always...and as always you speak eloquently about what many of us are thinking.

"Knock us down Lord.
Down from this frightening height.

Down to where we really are,"

I think theres been a lot of knocking of late.

You're the hidden cost and the thing that's lost in everything I do.
In the sunlight, in the shadows ...
No ... I'll never stop looking for you.

Irish Rose
Member Patricius

since 2000-04-06

Posts 10263

5 posted 2001-11-13 09:54 PM

This is a fine write. Actually, I know what I want to say but I just can't seem to, it sounds like flattery! But it is a fine write.
There's a wonderful message here, one of strength and faith. There's a spiritual quality to these words....that's all I can think of to say right now!

Kathleen
nickname "Kay"
also wrote as The Lady of Shallot
"be true to yourself"

Mysteria

Member Laureate

since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

6 posted 2001-11-13 10:17 PM

I love my life such as it is, sometimes the quiet is deafening, but an "unsound" I love. These are my favorite lines in this wonderful poem Richard.

"If the top forty
had to be dragged from memory,
displayed by a whistle
or learned on an instument,
banged on a drum."

Oh but I wish for the days of real music!

~*~ Carpe' Diem ~*~

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