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bsquirrel
since 2000-01-03
Posts 7855
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You leave me no words, no means to respond -- dry, heaving syllables lay on my lips. The fire's soft spread, a slow, heady burn, crumbles turned phrases to fall fast as stones. You leave me flat, parched -- no metaphors found -- can't seem to stop or start a new sentence. Comma-wings flutter in webs of clear sight. Unused, insightless, caught in your know. Arms out, you speak, sparking the sky and flowing new embers across fields of smoke. Coughing and choking on sudden, swift change, I know you mean love when you say nothing. Ashes of snow wetting the road. We'll drive down the distance and bear down the mountain. Wherever we end up, trees cracking softly. Our subtle-filled silence will write shelves to full. Nightly beside you, I'll remove a volume, turn to the first page, blank as the others. To signify our breaths. Listen ... my hand carving smooth pictures in words now returned. |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
only you could write this brilliantly about not being able to write. ( my moody muse should be so kind)  this is such a very cool poem Mike...love the personifis and analogies to writing. You're the color of the sky reflected in each store-front window pane ... |
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Tiersdin Member Elite
since 2000-11-17
Posts 2364east coast |
Enjoyed reading the words that could not be written.  *smiles* ~Tier |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Ok then, don't write again, soon. Yum. |
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bsquirrel
since 2000-01-03
Posts 7855 |
 Thanks, everyone. |
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ZeraStarloft Junior Member
since 2003-01-07
Posts 11in a marigold |
I've read and reread and rereread this one, Mike... and I can't think of a darn thing to say.. except that you seem to have read my mind. Well done, Mr. Squirrel. |
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Allysa
since 1999-11-09
Posts 1952In an upside-down garden |
*scratches head* what? I'm on a computer at school and I didn't bother to look at the user name (im so used to seeing my name) and I didn't notice that it wasn't my name.. lol.. weird. Alison must've been in the computer lab today.. Anyway.. yeah. [This message has been edited by Allysa (10-30-2003 02:34 PM).] |
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Wind
since 2002-10-12
Posts 2981 |
I'm still gonna sulk  I still like it but must be careful not to confuse myself or others. get well soon. or else? nah...ok whatever. |
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Temptress
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-06-15
Posts 7136Mobile, AL |
Lovely work, squirrel guy! I certainly do miss it around here, and I miss being able to read your words. I think I need to frame this or something...geesh... I LOVE YOU! I LOVE YOU! I LOVE YOU! |
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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
I wish I could be at a loss for words so eloquently has you. |
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bsquirrel
since 2000-01-03
Posts 7855 |
Thank you, friends and fellow readers. And Sharon -- THANK YOU for getting my picture working up there. |
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Tequilia_Sunrise Senior Member
since 2003-02-19
Posts 612Lochalsh, Ontario, Canada |
lovely |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
missing the chatter of you |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
You sure got lost for words well here, and by the way, how's about a new poem? Missing your work in here. |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
Sometimes I have to go to a bookstore, to find my own words. Nothing is magic all the time, but at times the very atmosphere of the place, so filled with words.....it's as if my own were hiding there. ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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