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Two Feet to Dirt |
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Alicia Member
since 2002-03-22
Posts 279
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What is it like for you to be -above ground- collecting seconds in fluid pumping your organs full like blisters? What is it like to be a breather a sleeper a lover or two? To be a dancer a doctor a bleeding knower? What is it like for you to be -above ground- tracing soil in wonder paring flesh into sections with the flick of blade that close? The burn of slumber baking in the pillows just beneath your eyes the flip of page peeling the ticking timer screaming need? What is it like knowing that poetry and pleading can never save you, knowing that your leader's eyes burst bones, baby's beds and innocent red hearts to dust? What is it like for you to be -above ground- watching your skin fade fall and harden while the tissue of you still worries and hurts - still wants? |
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RSWells Member Elite
since 2001-06-17
Posts 2533 |
It's dizzying and it begs me lay down. But I shan't. |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Alicia...how do you do this? An apt title, a very deep, emotional write...your picture always goes well with what you leave us to read... I will trade you some "up" writing for some "deep" writing any day... IWIHWT... |
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Professor Gloom Member Elite
since 2000-07-23
Posts 3082of Depression |
If I’d wish I’d wish to be like you are, Buried deep, Ever sleep, Never have to wander far. If I breath, Forcing pollution inside, Filling fears Through the years, Exposed unable to hide. Wishing to be planted down, Peacefully, Never again to be found. Gloom |
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Magician Member
since 2002-08-14
Posts 126 |
I am very impresed with the depth of this. This is something that must be read again and again... |
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Moonlight Romeo 
since 2001-09-10
Posts 982The heart of you |
I see that you're someone who walks the plane. That's a good thing. There need to be more of us. Thank you. What light through yon window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. |
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Nightshade
since 2001-08-31
Posts 13962just out of reach |
Alicia - very intense and well written. Chris Life is not measured by breaths you take, but by moments that take your breath away. |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Alicia It is all in the process of living, some enjoy, some don't. Good write. |
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Dark Angel Member Patricius
since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095 |
Alicia, girl I love the titles you choose, I love your style, the imagery and most of all... I love reading YOU. Excellent as always dear poet  Maree |
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Alicia Member
since 2002-03-22
Posts 279 |
~Being away is the excuse for the delay in expressing my appreciation of your reading and comments. How to thank you, for time and thought, for the amazing things left behind for me to read in return? I'm just not sure. Know though, that your reading is appreciated. Take care of yourselves. *Peace.  . |
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