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Poet’s Curse
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Poet’s Curse |
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1slick_lady Member Ascendant
since 2000-12-22
Posts 6088standing on a shadow's lace 
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Poet’s Curse what is this curse to know so much and touch so little you do not admit it but you have it too standing in the smoky shadows of ripples between the lines to find yourself reaching for something just short of the edge "i am out of estrogen and i have a gun" |
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Kaoru
since 2003-06-07
Posts 3892where the wild flowers grow |
Awesome write! Loved it from beginning to end  |
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Larry C
since 2001-09-10
Posts 10286United States |
Maybe there's prose in that edge... (hint, hint)  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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1slick_lady Member Ascendant
since 2000-12-22
Posts 6088standing on a shadow's lace |
i AM working on them...i promise but my brain needs a break and poetry does it..but i am a slave to the "stories" for there has ended up to be many and the first will be shown soon...found it an obsession now that it has started and not much sleep...for i am writting many at the same time...remembering...(and the writing part is easy, i just don't type well)...h [This message has been edited by 1slick_lady (07-02-2003 05:40 PM).] |
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Larry C
since 2001-09-10
Posts 10286United States |
Send me copies and I'll type them. ROTFLMFO 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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1slick_lady Member Ascendant
since 2000-12-22
Posts 6088standing on a shadow's lace |
all 27 of them? WOW thanks...h |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
I do, yes, exactly that....and I can't avoid the feeling that the real poetry lies beyond, if I can only reach over that edge and not be slashed by it..... ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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Larry C
since 2001-09-10
Posts 10286United States |
Hey I'm entering 1,000 contacts into Outlook. I'd much rather work for you.  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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1slick_lady Member Ascendant
since 2000-12-22
Posts 6088standing on a shadow's lace |
really? my last typist quit…some rumor about me being a redhead and sexual harassment…lol..lol…LOL...i think i need a nap and food i am losing it...and the first will be done soon be looking for it...it is..."I Got 'Cha Chuck I Got 'Cha" ...h [This message has been edited by 1slick_lady (07-02-2003 06:07 PM).] |
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Larry C
since 2001-09-10
Posts 10286United States |
I'm holding my breath already... 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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icebox Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383in the shadows |
The poem is great. The curse is awareness. Most humans live as if they are asleep; poets are awake at least a few minutes more than normal. Eventually, the truths which become apparent, as a by-product of awareness, will drive all of us mad. |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
Helen, the edge is where we all strive to get to....sometimes we don't have any idea that maybe we reached it... Still striving, still pushing... This is a good poem. No bout a doubt it... |
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Cruina Junior Member
since 2003-07-01
Posts 16Virginia |
i absolutely loved this... so honest, so true... there is so much that we reach for... well done indeed... |
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Aenimal Member Rara Avis
since 2002-11-18
Posts 7350the ass-end of space |
Wonderful poem and wonderful thoughts by ice. You always inspire h |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
love this...so true, so true |
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S Arthur Grey Senior Member
since 2001-03-19
Posts 719woven by a poet's loom |
Or poet's puzzle. Interesting twists and turns. But "just short of the edge"? hmmmmmmmm I have a certain innate reluctance at edges . . . I wonder . . . s.a.g. |
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Wind
since 2002-10-12
Posts 2981 |
yes, sometimes I wish I was as dark as people think I am. That was just great, it's going in my library I said I'm going to buy a gun and start a war, |
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Wind
since 2002-10-12
Posts 2981 |
ok, now it's going into my library I said I'm going to buy a gun and start a war, |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
what is this curse to know so much and touch so little And still keep trying. *S* I like this very much! *S* |
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