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The Past Revisited
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The Past Revisited |
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dhicks03 Member
since 2002-12-26
Posts 267Missouri,USA |
The Past Revisited A trip back to the north A need to bleed journeyed me forth Conclave of past drifted memories Laid on my mind like the heavy snow on the pine trees What answer did I expect to be found? Hard to believe I still find it in me to be so naive To think I might somehow get back up After being so down. Talked to God the same in Wisconsin Snowy nights and northern lights Left me vacant inside For I had long ago died In the north, same as the south Just the past...revisited Blue-eyed ladies, with future love maybes Danced with me and Jack Black all around my brain Just the same, and just once more, I showed them the door Listened alone again, as the wind, Howled out from the past, An echoed name And the distance shortened, from a thousand, Now to less than sixty miles away Somehow, only my mind was allowed to stay The past that brought a zillion words and a trillion tears Revisited, like a memory storm, left a heart, for another day Another day and another line Black pen to white paper, throws down another rhyme This heart cannot decipher, the meaning written there Still just the same, time to pay the piper, accept the blame This past revisited, says "so glad you came" Nothing seems solved, t'was all ventured nothing gained And all that evolved, is still a servant indentured, a slave to this pain Plastic smiles for a thousand miles Watch as I bleed, ask what I need And offer that today is tomorrow, yesterday Get up, get on, get off Whispers in my ear,"please stay"? And as I drive south Another swig of Jack Black rinses my mouth Tells me that once again, I'm running away Onwards towards another day, Of the past...revisited Copyright 2002 Dennis Hicks |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
"Plastic smiles for a thousand miles.." Indeed - Been there - Seen them... There's something to be said for solitude, isn't there???..  |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
I got chills. And I'm not catching a cold. I must take in your poems slowly, one at a time... just to enjoy the being undone... |
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