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1slick_lady
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since 2000-12-22
Posts 6088
standing on a shadow's lace

0 posted 2003-07-28 12:21 PM



I Am

I am
a lot more honest
with myself
than days past
of knowing
how walls can fall
by scratching
at surfaces
so unable
to show need
and much
too weak
to reach out
I wonder
if cracks
can seal
and be repaired
in mirrors
of others
or of ourselves
when slivers
are the only
things seen

"I am living a life, i have no wish to live. How did this happen?" Unknown

© Copyright 2003 Helen Chambers - All Rights Reserved
icebox
Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383
in the shadows
1 posted 2003-07-28 12:30 PM


I have no big words for this.  All I find is, "yes, you are."



Krawdad
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since 2001-01-03
Posts 2597

2 posted 2003-07-28 12:43 PM


h,

You are
perhaps
composed
not of slivers at all
but of facets
of what you thought
was singular
and now discover
that you have
more sides
than you knew . . .

Kraw'

Ratleader
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Member Rara Avis
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026
Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass
3 posted 2003-07-28 12:48 PM


I am searching my house for hidden recording devices! You keep writing bits of me, with such clinical accuracy.....ouch, and thanks....

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Aenimal
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since 2002-11-18
Posts 7350
the ass-end of space
4 posted 2003-07-28 01:42 AM


hugs
passing shadows
Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577
displaced
5 posted 2003-07-28 03:22 AM


I wonder it too


ThisDiamond
Member Rara Avis
since 2002-02-22
Posts 9353
Michigan, USA
6 posted 2003-07-28 11:49 AM


Oh...this was striking in the shards that sparkle here.
You ARE grace and beauty, sister poet, in your writes and in your endless aura.
TD

PKreturns
Member
since 2003-07-21
Posts 362
New Orleans, LA
7 posted 2003-07-28 11:55 AM


You AM a great poet...*S*
IcyFlamez89
Member
since 2003-02-14
Posts 292
Jersey City NJ
8 posted 2003-07-28 12:06 PM


You are like a weaver of words. Whatever you spin comes out a masterpiece. Loved it and thank you.
Enchantress
Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113
Canada eh.
9 posted 2003-07-28 12:28 PM


You are one fantastic lady!
~Hugs~

~The breeze that kissed you on the face,
    Has held me in the same embrace~

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