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Fleeting Sustenance Balanced Fare
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Fleeting Sustenance Balanced Fare |
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RSWells Member Elite
since 2001-06-17
Posts 2533
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Callous clouds hung low, their rein the bleak corral that concrete, endless horizon and undark consider a February day. Hunger and alone huddled then broke for the Chinese buffet. At least one would be deferred. The innocent beginning, a white tablecloth. The indoor fountain pools, our affair's baptismal font from which but one seems to have emerged. The instant warmth of the egg drop soup nearly brings tears. Starvation lay in a bed of fried rice and variety lusted in sweet and sour pork, chicken and shrimp. Steamed broccoli and mushrooms play soft and subtle texture between teeth. Fried dumplings and cheese puffs in fullness massaged gums then reposed below deck, ballast for the balance of the day's journey. Hot tea from a tiny handleless cup finally warmed even weary bones and innards where until now only a lone heart stay faithful, temperate and humane like a blazing hearth in a vast, dark and shuttered room. Reflection snapped by the fortune cookie which stated on one side, against overwhelming odds; 7 12 23 39 42 46 it's reverse whispered a less likely "You will be Loved deeply". "Happy people have no history" - French Proverb |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
About time you came home, Master Poet...it's been far too long to keep me from enjoying verse like this... and well done, I might add.... |
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SEA 
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Member Seraphic
since 2000-01-18
Posts 22676with you |
ok, I am really hungry now  Good to see you posting again  |
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Startime Member Ascendant
since 2000-10-03
Posts 5918Canada |
Oh gosh...so good to see your words gracing these blue pages again....This poem made me hungry for both such a meal and the love that seemed to be missing...*sigh* an inner hunger and desire of the heart within the heart....Magnificent....**big hugs**  Love I leave with you whether it is in your life now or yet the essense of your dreams. |
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BluesSerenade Member Patricius
since 2001-10-23
Posts 10549By the Seaside |
This is certainly food for thought, not to mention the good fortune! Enjoyed the combination very much. *superb* |
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Irish Rose Member Patricius
since 2000-04-06
Posts 10263 |
It is so good go read your poetry once more, this is exceptional. Kathleen--(Kay) |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
What better fortune could one ask for...?... So nice to see you here, Richard.. and bringing us such wondrous words as well.. |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Welcome home, wayfaring stranger, where warm replies are but an appetizer to the main course, compassionate friendship. And why is it that I am suddenly thirsty for hot Chai tea? |
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RSWells Member Elite
since 2001-06-17
Posts 2533 |
Thank you kind friends for the warm return. I've been stuck in a blue place (not pages) and hopefully will have a presence again. |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
Hot tea from a tiny handleless cup finally warmed even weary bones and innards where until now only a lone heart stay faithful, temperate and humane like a blazing hearth in a vast, dark and shuttered room. ===================================== This serves proof that there is poetry everywhere, when we open our minds to it. SO? all I had to do was ask? it was that easy? *L*yes....was a pleasure to wander in and find your name here today. To your postscript ... play the numbers...and never doubt the possibilities...for just like the poetry...things can be found when we are open to it You speak to me in riddles and you speak to me in rhymes. |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
Today is our lottery, so will use your numbers Richard and split it with you if I win, how's that? (and you know I would) You can even make a Chinese dinner into something spectacular, and it is sooooo good to see you writing again. Now off to get a ticket!The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
WOW! So good to see you posting here again Richard! I have never heard Chinese food sound so inviting. Welcome home! Hugs~Nancy ~Time has cast a spell on you, |
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Mistletoe Angel
since 2000-12-17
Posts 32816Portland, Oregon |
 (tears fall down my cheeks) Oh my gosh, now I am flooding with tears, we've all missed you soooooo much, it's so great to see you again! (big hugggssssss) My heart cries out to everyone who has struggled this way but yet I know deep down love will come to them all and their answers will come to their questions! God Bless You, sweet friend, we all love you so much, this is excellent! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Richard, thank you for sharing!    May love and light always shine upon you! Love, Noah Eaton |
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