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cwebb
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since 2002-01-19
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0 posted 2002-02-03 04:45 PM


I am elsewhere now, wishing to be home again.
Where all this time my heart had lain –
(but then we always knew beyond that dreamtime
when all we loved was nurtured
- hung floating here between us,
fulfilling all we’d ever thought to want) -
we always knew reality would measure far short of our reaching.
I face this truth today – and nightly now
knowing, look to find some understanding of this loss.
Some direction – for now, it lies beyond my reach.

It's cold beyond those walls
- and windows showing other views
are not the ones I'd known;
perhaps the eyes I'd used are different than these now...

(This is a time out of time.
I'm looking for that smaller self,
I'd left somewhere, a year or so ago -
she had no expectations, not like those I've learned...
if joy was not her day's companion, nor was sorrow.)

© Copyright 2002 Carol Webber - All Rights Reserved
Irish Rose
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since 2000-04-06
Posts 10263

1 posted 2002-02-03 08:08 PM


Carol, I don't think I've read much of your work, this is good, very sorrowful but
well written and took me along.......nicely done.

Kathleen--(Kay)
"When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass, and the sun drips honey."
Laurie Lee



cwebb
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since 2002-01-19
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2 posted 2002-02-03 09:30 PM


Kay, thank you... I am beginning to feel invisible on this forum!  I'm new here... and have posted here & at the workshop - and at 'prose' - your response is one of the very few I've had!  

Carol

catalinamoon
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The Shores of Alone
3 posted 2002-02-03 09:41 PM


Carol, this is outstanding. I know just the feeling, too.
Sandra

cwebb
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since 2002-01-19
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4 posted 2002-02-03 10:39 PM


thank you, Sandra - I appreciate your kind words!

C

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