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GenXer
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since 2001-12-15

Posts 583
USA

0 posted 2002-02-17 12:41 PM

I beg my thoughts not to stray,
but eventually they do,
and so do my tears
As I’m taken back to a memory
that refuses to pass

And as they wander off
to where they truly want to be
I realize I wish to come along,
but time keeps pulling me away
and there is nothing I can do

So I am left alone
as my thoughts stray
Left looking through a window
watching them play,
wishing I could join them before it closes

[This message has been edited by GenXer (02-17-2002 12:43 PM).]

Mistletoe Angel

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since 2000-12-17

Posts 32816
Portland, Oregon

1 posted 2002-02-17 12:57 PM

(big hugggssssss) I understand how you feel, sweet friend, sometimes when I have a dream, I just want to hold it close and write ir down, but sometimes other thoughts interrupt and I can't help but cry losing fragments of beautiful dreams I have! (sigh) This is sooooo well-said, sweet friend, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet freind, thank you for sharing!

May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

Startime
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since 2000-10-03

Posts 5918
Canada

2 posted 2002-02-17 01:27 PM

*sigh* such yearning fills these words...sometimes it is for the past and sometimes for the future...Stray Thoughts is a perfect title to fit the feeling I had...**big big hugs**

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

SEA

Moderator

Member Seraphic

since 2000-01-18

Posts 22676
with you

3 posted 2002-02-17 05:40 PM

painful and so sad....
but I liked this very much

(((hugs))) for you

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

4 posted 2002-02-17 07:37 PM

I read this...three times....

I thank you...times three....

Booker
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since 2002-02-11

Posts 5

5 posted 2002-02-17 07:41 PM

Hmmmm, your poem sums up my present state of mind perfectly. Very good. Moved me and I thank you for it.

Oak.

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius

since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

6 posted 2002-02-17 07:48 PM

It's not such a bad thing to get lost in our thoughts and let them take us where they will.
As long as we are left with the pleasant ones!
I enjoy your poetry GenXer~

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

7 posted 2002-02-17 07:50 PM

I love poems that leave me thinking...and this one did! Love it....good write!
~Hugs, Nancy~

~Time has cast a spell on you,
So that you won't ever forget me~

rosepetals25

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since 2000-05-31

Posts 3076
PA

8 posted 2002-02-17 08:09 PM

Dave,

Memories can be so strong. As much as you fight, they usually win. I really liked this.

Hugs,
Tara

"My heart is like an open book, for the whole world to read"
- Motley Crue, Home Sweet Home

Madame Chipmunk
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-05

Posts 8296
Michigan

9 posted 2002-02-17 08:12 PM

This is very excellent, Dave...Its the first free verse poem of yours I have read and I must say that you really did a great job of it.
Just don't let those stray thoughts of yours get sick by eating too much of that NY pizza.

even if the pizza does have a smiling face.

copyright2002 Lyra Nesius

"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

[This message has been edited by Madame Chipmunk (02-17-2002 08:12 PM).]

strbbux
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since 2001-12-19

Posts 3859

10 posted 2002-02-17 09:51 PM

GenX I love this, I love getting lost in my thoughts and sometimes I dont want to come back. great poem here...floria

Floria

"Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them"
(Oliver Wendell Holmes)

JBaker515

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since 2001-02-28

Posts 458
Dartmouth College

11 posted 2002-02-17 09:52 PM

dave, this is great. Keep it up!

Zinsser
Senior Member

since 2001-02-27

Posts 1641
Calif.

12 posted 2002-02-22 02:20 AM

I see many diff meanings in this poem... Love it
thanks
Connie

Mysteria

Member Laureate

since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

13 posted 2002-02-27 11:36 PM

I saw several meanings as well, and each time more profound in its meaning. I read it twice and enjoyed it more the second time as I read it aloud, great job on this one.

~* Imagination is more important than knowledge *~

Einstein

GenXer
Senior Member

since 2001-12-15

Posts 583
USA

14 posted 2002-02-27 11:46 PM

Wow! I never thought I would see this one again. Thanks Mysteria, and thanks to all who read this. I have bought a leash for my thoughts, so this won't ever happen to me again.lol

Dave

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