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serenity blaze
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0 posted 2003-04-19 06:11 AM


No one ever loved you
haunting words that leave a slab
of something quivering in gut
no one ever gave a damn


everybody laughs at you
I still hear the schoolyard taunt
picking scabs and bleeding rocks
everybody--laughed.


she's so weird
I heard them say
sing-song tunes of yesterday
they say that she was born that way
whispers hang from monkey bars...


check for cooties
check her first--
don't you think she smells?
pig-tailed curses from the swings
from perfect lips in curl...


stretchy string across the knees
to see if I could hop the grace
I never did
jump high enough--


I never did escape.


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littlewing
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1 posted 2003-04-19 07:09 AM



but here . . .  you do - and magnificiently

Those voices resound in my head as well . . . different times - different circumstances - but still . . .

seems like you know what I need to read Lady K . . .  xxoo

Dark Angel
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2 posted 2003-04-19 07:36 AM


I get laughed at and get told that I am weird all the time

love ya KA

Maree

adding this to my library.

Sunshine
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3 posted 2003-04-19 07:46 AM



Oh my...you brought back the rising flush of blush and stain of strain to fit in - and be like all the others...who, by conforming to be just like their own, are now molded into a background in my mind as that of a rock - heavy, stolid, and if in water, possibly stagnant and green with moldy residue...

I do believe you and I would have sat outside that group, sharing whatever our little brown sacks of sustenance carried...knowing in our quiet solitude, that some day...

we might show them...

something...

different.

Don't you agree?

[This message has been edited by Sunshine (04-19-2003 07:46 AM).]

wranx
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4 posted 2003-04-19 09:43 AM


Don't you just know
That along my journey
I crossed the path

Prescribed

Only now and again
To get a bearing
On all the others

To set out again
On my own

Tracing a track
In a zig-zag fashion

Janet Marie
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5 posted 2003-04-19 10:24 AM


she's so weird
I heard them say
sing-song tunes of yesterday
they say that she was born that way
==============================

KA? Fear and jealousy of the gifted has made many act a fool....they hung "some guy" on a cross once...and burned "some chick" named Joan... some are blinded by the light...and some find their reverie in it.

oh and..........
wanna sing with me?
You KNOW the song....


Doctors have come
from distant cities
just to see me
stand over my bed
disbelieving what they're seeing

they say I must be one of the wonders
of god's own creation
and as far as the can see they can offer
no explanation

I believe
fate smiled and destiny
laughed as she came to my cradle
"know this child will be able"
laughed as my body she lifted
"know this child will be gifted
with love, with patience
and with faith
she'll make her way"

people see me
I'm a challenge
to your balance
I'm over your heads
how I confound you
and astound you
to know I must be one of the wonders
of god's own creation
and as far as you can see you can offer me
no explanation


from:
Natile Merchant
Wonder

brian sites
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6 posted 2003-04-19 01:51 PM


escaping the atmosphere

takes a lot of fuel
speed
thrust

the wren hunches
wings flexed

this was a painful beauty
hug you

passing shadows
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displaced
7 posted 2003-04-19 01:59 PM


hey, I had cooties too. They obviously didn't kill us, ey?

[This message has been edited by passing shadows (04-19-2003 02:00 PM).]

JamesMichael
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8 posted 2003-04-19 07:21 PM


Love the title...there is still time...plan your strategy...make the great escape...james
Margherita
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9 posted 2003-04-19 09:35 PM


This is a powerful write. I think very few escaped .... at one time or another ...
Scars teach something, we do learn to put on an elephant's skin ...
Love and hugs.
Margherita

Aenimal
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10 posted 2003-04-19 09:59 PM


Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me..my @ss..i came back with wit, but what is wit to idiots, that's why i just kicked their @sses instead, and K. I hear anybody call you names I'll kick theirs too
serenity blaze
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11 posted 2003-04-20 04:55 PM


popping for a quick thank you--and giggles to Jan--you trying to cheer me up???--

hugs all, was just looking for the root of those damned voices that talk so nasty to me all the time, and I guess this is as far as I could go...

thanks again for replying and your understanding!

Ratleader
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12 posted 2003-04-21 01:32 AM


Silly me -- I thought I was the only one.....

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passing shadows
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13 posted 2003-04-21 04:53 AM


you're terrific, lady

you got plenty-a-backup if you need someone taken care of, yahear? us suthern women gotta stick together, there's safety in numbers, right? Or at least it'll confuse 'em real good anyhow.

[This message has been edited by passing shadows (04-21-2003 04:55 AM).]

1slick_lady
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standing on a shadow's lace
14 posted 2003-04-21 04:55 AM


standing in line
passing shadows
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15 posted 2003-05-25 04:48 AM



Martie
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16 posted 2003-05-25 08:28 PM


  I do!
garysgirl
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17 posted 2003-05-25 09:28 PM


Yeah Kare, we're all right here for you.....
just say the word
    
Ethel  

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