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Letting It Out . (Re-titled)
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Letting It Out . (Re-titled) |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass 
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Letting It Out shall I leave it, thrashing and rattling like a snake in a sack, or let it escape, hissing like a swarm of angry bees out of a tin pipe? if I stop to write, will it still exist when I am done? does it now? [This message has been edited by Ratleader (02-25-2003 11:32 AM).] |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
(smiling) does it? does it ever? enjoyed Ed... questioning things are you? |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
Yep, and if that snake gets riled enough to strike, it'll go right out through that sack, like it wasn't there, something that has been done by not a few poems of mine when I failed to write 'em at the exact time they wanted to be born..... ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> ______________Ratleader______________ [This message has been edited by Ratleader (02-24-2003 06:17 PM).] |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Hi Ed...Many questions indeed, and I guess the answers depend on what "it" is. Sounds pretty scary, but maybe only because it is in captivity. Let loose it might only be soft air. |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
But of course Ed..the written word lives on. Well done..much enjoyed. ~Hugs & Smiles~ ~ Trace my body with your words.. |
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GG Member Elite
since 2002-12-03
Posts 3532Lost in thought |
I say just get that poem written! there's better chance that it'll still exist if you write then if you don't!  Enjoyed, Always, Alyssa - And so it was that time stood still - |
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kaile
since 2000-02-06
Posts 5146singapore |
Ed, i must confess i wasn't too impressed with the title but after casting aside my doubts and clicking on this, i thought i found a gem... to my library... p/s: hey, what happened to your cinquain submission? just curious... |
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garysgirl 
since 2002-09-29
Posts 19237Florida, USA |
Ed, I like whatever you write. It's always excellent...  "Love makes the world go around" |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
a wonderful contemplation |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
Time for the revealing of secrets...... My son and I were reading a couple older things around here yesterday, and ran into one in which the writer had substituted a picture behind the poem for imagery IN the poem. I wrote this on the spot for him, to show him what I was growling about when I said a poem ought to have its pictures showing inside rather than outside, and let him see the process of letting a poem out of that sack. We both liked the result, so I posted it....... It does describe how a poem usually happens for me. ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
Yer right, Kaile -- that WAS a dull title... One of the reasons God invented erasers, eh? --the other being to scratch inside your ear... ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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