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bsquirrel
since 2000-01-03
Posts 7855
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Lift up this soft box of hearts, the soapstone letters of your passing days and nights among a room of light and dust. Find the notes like silver coins spinning somewhere by themselves with the shadow cents they bring to you. Play a song like fractured rainbows about a girl who painted canvas white or black, left it blank or dark. Taste with her that map of glass and feathers. Rust and paint and chains. Seams and nails and mirrored face. Sheets of notes in score. Find the chords and let them burn as sunlight on a beach of stones. Collect yourself from the color of the tidepool near that shore. Stream along as fingers flex and soothe the metal strung and rung. Wring out all the watered blood. Sit back. Lay down this soft box of hearts. They fluttered for you, passing by. Now let their whispered beats comfort you to sleep. |
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Joyce Johnson
since 2001-03-10
Posts 9912Washington State |
As beautiful as those I have already voted for. Joyce |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
Beautiful Mike...absolutely wonderful. ~Hugs and a vote~ ~Somewhere in my heart I'm always |
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littlewing Member Rara Avis
since 2003-03-02
Posts 9655New York |
and like a lullaby sung to soothe a fragile soul I close my eyes . . . nothing quite like it - you captured it nicely here: Wring out all the watered blood. Sit back. got my vote . . . xxoo [This message has been edited by littlewing (03-25-2003 07:40 PM).] |
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garysgirl
since 2002-09-29
Posts 19237Florida, USA |
Beautiful, Mike. My Vote...  Hugs, Ethel [This message has been edited by garysgirl (03-25-2003 09:32 PM).] |
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waldopepper Member
since 2003-03-18
Posts 157Tennessee, USA |
Beauty in the soothing tones of your performance here my friend. A very lyrical appeal in the flowing lines. Very well said. |
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Bill Charles Member Patricius
since 2000-07-11
Posts 10619highways, & byways, for now |
bsquirrel - this is the best poem I've read of yours I believe, and it does deserve to go into the book. My vote is cast... BC |
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Mistletoe Angel
since 2000-12-17
Posts 32816Portland, Oregon |
 (big hugggssssssss) Oh Michael, I too own an acoustic guitar, and an electric one too, and I feel some of the best songs come straight from ones most treasured memories, and like silver dollars each one will make a mint when a loved one is touched and lost in the music! (sigh) This is wonderful, sweet friend, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Michael, thank 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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vlraynes Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-25
Posts 8229Somewhere... out there... |
A beautifully penned piece, Mike. Nicely done.  "...until you have read the verse on his heart, |
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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
This is beautiful - the direction of your work lately has taken you to a higher plain. You are getting better and better (if that was possible as everything you write is exceptional!). Glad to vote here! |
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SPIRIT Senior Member
since 2002-12-29
Posts 1745California Desert |
I happily vote for this great piece. |
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kaile
since 2000-02-06
Posts 5146singapore |
Mike, i can't decide on a favourite line...i liked them all...awesome imagery...i also liked how your last stanza complemented your first... the image about the girl painting strike me the most |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
I enjoyed the acoustics here, Mike...  |
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Chanson Senior Member
since 2000-08-19
Posts 1559Up Creek w/Out Paddle |
You have quickly become a fave poet of mine, bsquirrel. The way you use your pen to create unique images is top notch. Thanks for this. When you think you have heard it all, |
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Local Parasite
since 2001-11-05
Posts 2527Transylconia, Winnipeg |
Hah... now of course I vote for this one, Mikey... you know it's my favourite. Great stuff man. |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
Find the chords and let them burn as sunlight on a beach of stones. This entire work did that... so very well. *S* One of the greatest perks of the book project is the expanding of our horizons, finding poets we'd somehow missed... but won't again. *S* |
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bsquirrel
since 2000-01-03
Posts 7855 |
Thank you all for voting for this late-comer. I don't know if it will garner enough votes to get in the book, but it's nice to have more people read it here than its original posting in Dark. I feel a strange affection for this piece, and am glad you all enjoyed it. Stella was a diver and she was always down. |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
Add me to the list of worshipers  this is one of my faves of yours as well... soul poetry set to lyric and verse one of your coolest on a very long list of KEWL JEWELS  "and when we get to the pearly gates ... |
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Dark Angel Member Patricius
since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095 |
Stream along as fingers flex and soothe the metal strung and rung. Wring out all the watered blood. Sit back. Excellent imagery. Maree |
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wranx Member Elite
since 2002-06-07
Posts 3689Moved from a shack to a barn |
I remember this, or one very much like it. It still rings for me. |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
yep you rock dude... acoustic or electric |
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Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Absolutely ! *Huglets* ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Yes, I would hold this one in my hands... |
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Larry C
since 2001-09-10
Posts 10286United States |
Michael, Smokin'! Votin'. If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again. |
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bsquirrel
since 2000-01-03
Posts 7855 |
Thank you. |
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christian Member
since 2002-12-18
Posts 331 |
damn you for just being. just damn. [thats a compliment by the way]. |
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CocoBaci Member Elite
since 2000-05-06
Posts 3043 |
PoetFriend BSquirrel... This is one incredible poem... A most enjoyed read... Smiles2u *~coco~* |
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Justbleu Member Elite
since 1999-08-31
Posts 3329Oregon, Originally From Alaska :) |
Very cool write..... Bridgette  "Somewhere, somehow, it should be possible to touch someone and never let go again. To hold someone, not for a moment but forever." Unknown |
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Sudhir Iyer Member Ascendant
since 2000-04-26
Posts 6943Mumbai, India : now in Belgium |
brings me the smiles of enjoy... regards to you Mike, Sudhir |
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KristieSue
since 2003-01-31
Posts 1460PA, US |
this is great...I love it Failure isn't failure if a lesson from it is learned ~ KS |
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bsquirrel
since 2000-01-03
Posts 7855 |
Thank you all for your comments on this piece. Glad you're enjoyin' it. |
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skyshine
since 2002-02-07
Posts 3058Beneath the northern stars |
This is so precious....I love it.  ~Liz Waited on a line of greens and blues, just to be the next to be with you.. |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Yer just beautiful, Mikie. shaking my head, I agree with Sharon. |
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Allysa
since 1999-11-09
Posts 1952In an upside-down garden |
First, I have to say that your picture absolutely cracks me up. And now I must proclaim that I absotively posolutely love this. The title caught my eye.. many a year have I spent playing on my acoustic guitar (it's a shame really, I should be better than I am). Wonderfully written. "Tourists are terrorists with cameras. Terrorists are tourists with guns."~Anon. |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
Great write...gets my vote |
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Pilgrimage Member Elite
since 2001-12-04
Posts 3945Texas, USA |
Wonderful images in this one. Wonderful language. It has to be booked. Nan (Pilgrim variety) |
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catalinamoon
since 2000-06-03
Posts 9543The Shores of Alone |
Simply beautiful. I hope it gets in! Sandra |
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BluesSerenade Member Patricius
since 2001-10-23
Posts 10549By the Seaside |
Find the chords and let them burn as sunlight on a beach of stones. Collect yourself from the color of the tidepool near that shore. Love that verse! Good choice, nice write poet sir~ |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
I have no idea how I missed this and it was surely my loss until today. Your work always attracts me but this is an exceptional piece, and you are getting better all the time. This has to make the book, good luck! |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
it wouldn't be a book of poetry without some poetry. . . well done my friend. . . ---------------------------------------------------------- To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world. |
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Local Parasite
since 2001-11-05
Posts 2527Transylconia, Winnipeg |
Ahh, good to see this one in the book...  Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. |
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