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Lavender Lament ( for Ser's challenge)
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Lavender Lament ( for Ser's challenge) |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
So here I am… Are you listening? I said once upon a time That no longer would I speak to you like this With eyes turned Your way looking For what I know lies Inside of me, Yet now I am Last we spoke I raised my voice As pain from things I thought I’d lost Made me scream With the usual self pity That comes from not looking Past the end of this moment So if you find it now Uncomfortable to treat Me with other than contempt It is understood For I have held you so highly Contemptible at times I would have nailed again Treatise on doors for all to know I found you unhearing Uncaring Unscarred by the experiences Bared to you Are you there? I’m here…. Still not knowing the questions And hoping that in someway They need not be asked But that the answers will Indeed lead me Even if by crooked paths To what they were So I can know at least How to inquire Should our paths again Cross Perhaps I should petition you To look through me And seeing the spots inside Disregard them, Pointing out instead to me What is not tarnished from exposure To the corrosive past experienced Ignored embraced at times Maybe then I would feel There was more to this shell Than the sum of mistaken Misleading of mind By my own design Or ignorance Are you at all intrigued, With pleas such as this? If you were the drinking type I’d by you a cold one And after a few Perhaps you would find it in you To shed a bit of your distance And smile. We could all use a smile… Are you there? Are you listening? [This message has been edited by Cpat Hair (10-03-2002 04:03 PM).] |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Hey...I believe.  Perhaps I should petition you To look through me And seeing the spots inside Disregard them, I have to believe our humanity and all the related frailties of flesh are sort of expected. and? "Are you there?" "Are you listening?"  Today I simply cannot believe otherwise. and thank you, Ron--I know you didn't wanna do this one--I suppose I owe you an Iamber thang now? groan... |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
I've got to find this challenge... see if I'm up to it... I doubt it, 'cause right now... you laid me low. Wow. |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
"you laid me low." Um---is there some sort of lottery for this? Or do I just take a number?  |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
(chuckling) Ser... now you know that was a figure of speach she was using... Thanks to both of you for the replies... this was written under protest by the way, and not at all what I intended in either voice or content, but laziness got the best of me....so this is what you got. |
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bsquirrel
since 2000-01-03
Posts 7855 |
I suppose.... I should attempt the challenge now (and your Iambe fam chal) M |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
Mike... I suppose you should not be pressured into either. If they are to be, they will write themselves if they are not..then they will lie in some recess waiting for the day they are. I said once that the reason I didn't do challenges was because I tended to get very single minded about the subject and write several versions..that is true... I also usually avoid them to try and keep from mixing ego ( the need to step up to a challenge and prove I can do it, by god! ( with a grin)) and the desire to write what speaks to me... mix the two and you can get a bad case of WHY???? Why did I write this ...why didn't I write that?... why do I write? why am I motivated to post here? We all have ego..and a desire to connect with people, that is healthy. BUt, if the motivation becomes not to pursue the words and their beauty, then again I question the why. |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
I love these 'lazy' posts. They contain energizing food for thought. But as I have no time for additional personal challenges today, I'm happy to be a lazy reader. |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
Midnight, thank you... yes lazy is sometimes all we can muster... I appreciate your taking time to read and comment. |
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Martie
Moderator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Ron "With eyes turned Your way looking For what I know lies Inside of me," I'm listening...wouldn't mind a cold beer either. |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
yeah...a cold one sounds good with a bit of jazz playing in the background or a good blues man belting out some misery... thanks Martie... appreciate the comment and the knowing thoughts.. |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
Dang!! I'm speechless! Well almost. This near blew me away..and I could use a cold one about now. Good stuff! ~Hugs~ ~ Time has cast a spell on you |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
Enchantress... well it is alomost quitting time here, and I plan to head down to Johny's tap. If you see the old partially bald guy there in a black shirt..that will be me.. drop by and join me. |
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Tiersdin Member Elite
since 2000-11-17
Posts 2364east coast |
Speechless... ~Tier "I shall never bond again, as I have bonded with you..." |
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Mistletoe Angel
since 2000-12-17
Posts 32816Portland, Oregon |
 (sigh) Wow, this is wonderful, sweet friend, you always seem to bring out the most in every moment in your wonderful poetry, I love this! (big hugggssssss) Kudos to you, sweet friend, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Ron, hank you for sharing!  May love and light always shine upon you! Love, Noah Eaton "Underneath your clothes there's an endless story..." |
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Duncan Member Ascendant
since 2001-08-07
Posts 5455 |
Perhaps I should petition you To look through me And seeing the spots inside Disregard them, Pointing out instead to me What is not tarnished from exposure To the corrosive past experienced Ignored embraced at times Maybe then I would feel There was more to this shell Than the sum of mistaken Misleading of mind By my own design Or ignorance Ron, I lazily relate much to these verses...lol. I like reading other's challenges but for me, they feel too much like an 'assignment'. |
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