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bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

0 posted 2003-09-03 04:18 PM

I stay up reading,
lines of ideas meeting other lines,
crashing into dawn.
Tangled mealy-mouthed words
gasp for air in the melee,
an excursion and excavation,
trying to remember last night's pull.

How do you do, my bedside lamp?
You filter softness to open pages.
I cannot resist the promise of
losing the pace.
I cannot sleep.

Sprinklers, sirens, late-night cats.
A language that dims
with the coming day's rays.
If I could take that truck or train
that bellows notes into the thick
and dying vines of night,

I would not be up right now.
I should not need to keep my thoughts
in lines that straighten
as they curve
and break like early dew.

Touch the pane and find it wet.
I watch the mirror bored with me.
A shower is an empty room
at 3 a.m.

And when I twist the steps away,
back to bed, to lay and lay,
the pillow warms, the moonlight slants,
and breaks down silver in the distance.

My clock cannot say that.
Oh, it lies. It lies.
Oh, my clock cannot say that now.

Aenimal
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-11-18

Posts 7350
the ass-end of space

1 posted 2003-09-03 09:04 PM

beautifully penned, been through this too many times

Kaoru

Member Elite

since 2003-06-07

Posts 3892
where the wild flowers grow

2 posted 2003-09-04 12:44 PM

Sounds like a typical night to me..
Great write.

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

3 posted 2003-09-04 12:13 PM

Thanks.

Wind

Member Elite

since 2002-10-12

Posts 2981

4 posted 2003-09-04 09:44 PM

you're brain won't shut up either? and yeah..not saying everything. it is inside my head

insanity is not a crime

littlewing
Member Rara Avis

since 2003-03-02

Posts 9655
New York

5 posted 2003-09-05 04:04 AM

I should not need to keep my thoughts
in lines that straighten
as they curve
and break like early dew.

yes Mikey, but Thank God, you do
xxoo

mytuesdaywishes
Member

since 2003-09-05

Posts 254
a voice from the musicbox

6 posted 2003-09-20 12:01 PM

sleep is for the weak! insomniacs are the movers and shakers of this world my friend.
oh,

"I watch the mirror bored with me."

"the pillow warms, the moonlight slants,
and breaks down silver in the distance."

those are my favorite parts. nothing's quite the same in the wee hours...

and even when everything was wrong, and we were mad at the world, it was still beautiful.

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

7 posted 2003-09-20 12:07 PM

LOL at Tuesday's reply.
OMG, humans are supposed to sleep?
No wonder everyone says I am different.

Yu Lan
Senior Member

since 2000-04-13

Posts 1462
New Zealand

8 posted 2003-09-25 12:34 PM

Hehe.. must go with the writing gene..

I love this!
I like the bored morror image too.. and your ending is fanastic -

"My clock cannot say that.
Oh, it lies. It lies."

Doesn't it drive you mad, when you just start to settle down to sleep, and you happen to glance over at the clock which says 6:45, or some such ridiculous hour..?!

Bless your cotten sockies, you poetic maniacs. ^_^

Love - Lynne

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

9 posted 2003-09-25 01:23 PM

Glad you all enjoyed, and it's a shame we all find recognition in these lines.

Next up, tranquilizers.

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