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edh
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since 2003-03-26

Posts 111

0 posted 2003-04-10 05:03 PM

The poet wasn't needing.  Wasn't wanting.  Didn't care.
If the public wasn't bleeding.  Then the public thought it fair.
The poet wasn't starving.  Wasn't lonely.  Wasn't sad.
That the public didn't find a use for anything he had.
So the poet didn't cry out.  Didn't die from selfish cuts.
Then the public had a meeting.  Banged a gavel.
Said "You're nuts."
So the poet wasn't talking.  Wasn't laughing.  Thought it fair.
If the public wasn't needing.  Wasn't wanting.  Didn't care.
Then the poet finally fell upon his most timely verse.
And the public thought of ways to end this most untimely curse.
So the poet he was bleeding.  And he was starving in the square.
And the public they were laughing.  They were talking everyhwere.
But the poet found his destiny in all that he had penned.
And the public they were fawning.  Asking.  "Aren't
you a friend."

Brad Majors

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since 2001-04-03

Posts 2647
Georgia

1 posted 2003-04-10 05:46 PM

nice!

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

2 posted 2003-04-10 06:09 PM

Very nicely penned and much enjoyed!
~Hugs~

~Somewhere in my heart I'm always
dancing with you in the summer rain~

Kethry
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-29

Posts 9082
Victoria Australia

3 posted 2003-04-10 06:18 PM

Tis true, misunderstanding and suffering seem to be our lot if we would be famous - but there are good times and it is as important in my eyes to write about hope and faith and courage under fire or not. Thank you for this telling piece.
Kethry

Here in the midst of my lonely abyss, a single joy I find...your presence in my mind. Unknown

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

4 posted 2003-04-10 06:47 PM

EDH...I've often wondered, if, out of this nest of blue fledglings, we would be asked to read or share...

I'm blessed by this home, and one day I hope to fly to share more, but for now, I will sit, my egg being warmed by the mother and father of the nest...

just waiting for the right one
to be hatched...

I am enjoying your poetry very much!

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

5 posted 2003-04-10 06:54 PM

You've given us much to ponder from this write.
Thank you.

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