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grandiloquent Member
since 1999-07-08
Posts 104Midwest America |
Remember nights in disguise? We played card tricks and darting eyes against each other picked our phrases off each others' mouths ~ lightly ~ held them out on unruffled palms, and blew them into the air We traced the paths of graveyards with our shuffling toes... ...For romance. For the idea of innocence (which we did not understand, although we were every bit of it) Sat back to back to thought to think on porches in the waning wind, grey with discovery trailing motion of every hand, pulling collars up against the dead temperature, against the greatness laying near my cheek waiting to pounce through my hair to my chest and gnaw, subdued, at my wanderlust heart (still restless here inside my chest, with years and years to give it rest) I laughed as myself for the First time, with giggles trickling down my chin and over my jiggling belly -- sore from your antics, from the shared breath between us -- But I was terrified of the exposed and Am still an unopened. I loved. And that was all. I took the all it only was and let it lie. (I will always begin with explanations) (I will always start with apologies under my tongue). [This message has been edited by grandiloquent (04-01-2002 03:21 AM).] |
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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
Excellent......sometimes love explains it all. |
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grandiloquent Member
since 1999-07-08
Posts 104Midwest America |
~smile~ and sometimes it unexplains everything... Thank you, Sharon. [This message has been edited by grandiloquent (04-01-2002 03:05 AM).] |
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Nicole Senior Member
since 1999-06-23
Posts 1835Florida |
This just screams familiarity at me.  All of it, every line of it - but especially these two, grabbed me: (I will always begin with explanations) (I will always start with apologies under my tongue). sigh - I hate having to try to speak what I'm feeling, because it never ever comes out like I want it to. But I get this - I GET this. And my instinct is to say STOP. No apologies. No explanations. One should speak and feel their thoughts and emotions and be proud of them, because they're there. I have so much more to say, but I won't here.  Nic |
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Christopher
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
quote: now this caught me as one of the best lines i've heard. loved it as a whole, and quite surprised by the differences. Chris |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
This captured me, the words, the inside look, all very well done and complete. |
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Alwye
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Member Elite
since 1999-06-16
Posts 3850In the space between moments |
I too was captured, drawn in by this...Especially the lines-- "But I was terrified of the exposed and Am still an unopened." I truly understood this piece...especially those two lines. I can relate so well, although I wish I could not. Thank you for sharing this.  *Krista Knutson* |
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