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Robert Frazier
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0 posted 2003-05-06 05:38 PM


Walked away from the beach, shell in hand
the one you tossed aside
"Nothing of value here" you proclaimed,
"I'll look on it no more"
No pearl, true enough
I'd skip it 'cross the surf for less
but it touched Your hand
Endured Your gaze
and I couldn't help but wonder
how you'd not seen beauty there
dismissed its work out of hand
Could you not hear the groans of birth?
Were they invisible, like lustrous concretions
evolving between sheltering lids of stone
forming concentric layers of nacre, bone?
From mother-of-pearl it fed
but forced opened early, you said
"It's finished"

I polished bright
the shell you tossed
and saw a reflection
in what was lost
I wish you could see
brilliant and true
circles of me
endlessly bound by
circles of you

Rf


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Temptress
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1 posted 2003-05-06 05:49 PM


lovely...a very different poem concerning a sea shell. I think this is the first time I've read your work. I'll be looking for more.

You could hurt me with your bare hands. You could hurt me using the sharp edge of what you say. JEWEL

Sunshine
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Listening to every heart
2 posted 2003-05-06 06:27 PM



Now here is one that I can say,
IWIHWT....

yes...

You caught it all, Robert...

Cpat Hair
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3 posted 2003-05-06 06:32 PM


yes... I wish I had written this...

you touch on a number of things in this and I can draw a number more from my own life... thanks for sharing it... I think I needed to read it.


Patricia
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4 posted 2003-05-06 08:00 PM


Why are we so blind?  We can't see the beauty in the past, present, or what is to yet to be.

I wish you could see
brilliant and true
circles of me
endlessly bound by
circles of you

But you do see. And perhaps someday she will as well.

Robert, this is superior writing here.  I loved following you on your journey of great wisdom.

-Patricia  

Duncan
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5 posted 2003-05-06 08:59 PM


'I'd skip it 'cross the surf for less
but it touched Your hand
Endured Your gaze
and I couldn't help but wonder
how you'd not seen beauty there
dismissed its work out of hand'

I'm becoming quite a fan, Robert.  This brought to mind something I have repeated to myself on a few occasions, that is...to believe someone when they 'show' you who they are.  It can surely save heartache later.

Enchantress
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6 posted 2003-05-06 09:42 PM


Robert this  is wonderful!!
Enjoyed this piece so much...
One for my library.
~Hugs~

~Somewhere in my heart I'm always
dancing with you in the summer rain~

nakdthoughts
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Between the Lines
7 posted 2003-05-06 10:02 PM


I polished bright
the shell you tossed
and saw a reflection
in what was lost
I wish you could see
brilliant and true
circles of me
endlessly bound by
circles of you

This could stand alone...

M

Janette
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8 posted 2003-05-06 10:17 PM


This piece was spellbinding, and took my breath away in what it revealed ... love.

A keeper here.

ThisDiamond
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since 2002-02-22
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9 posted 2003-05-06 10:21 PM


Deeply insightful, warm and wandering the questions that disturb the heart at rest.
Excellent. TD

garysgirl
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10 posted 2003-05-06 10:56 PM


I polished bright
the shell you tossed
and saw a reflection
in what was lost
I wish you could see
brilliant and true
circles of me
endlessly bound by
circles of you


Robert, this whole poem is beautiful,
but the above really grabbed me.
Hugs,
Ethel


BluesSerenade
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By the Seaside
11 posted 2003-05-07 01:03 AM


As long as we keep love polished
it shines from within the circle and glows.

Wonderfully descriptive the way you depict the passages through time,  marked by the simple beauty of a seashell.  

Bravo, Sir~

Robert Frazier
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since 2003-02-06
Posts 1014

12 posted 2003-05-07 10:39 AM


your affirmations are uplifting!

Rf

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