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icebox
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since 2003-05-03

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in the shadows

0 posted 2003-10-14 11:35 PM

Who am I ?
Who are you
to ask this question?
Perhaps a friend,
perhaps without malice,
I am sure
you speculate
in innocence and pure curiosity.
I am no one now,
and many years before
I was certainly no one
you would ever want to know.
I'm not famous,
never was,
I'm just a name lost to history;
I was at times the one who put the mist
in mystery,
the player
of a hand you'd never try;
I was the shadow without source
troubling the eye,
because reflecting
you might say I was the how,
when the real question
should have dealt with why.

I live quietly now,
the only paddle stirring water in my life
is perhaps my poetry
but there was a time
as old men say,
"...why you should have known me
in the day...."
Well,
I won't even tell you that,
any sane person ran away;
I was fire
into which others threw the fat,
I was the edge
upon the bloody blade,
the solution finely paid
for decisions made by pampered suits
afraid their hands could have gotten stained,
the gardener cleaning out the beds
after it has rained,
tearing errant weeds out
by the roots,
I was the lightening
of the distant gun,
when wide eyes stared
in disbelief,
I was the one
who'd brought their plans to grief
and disappeared
smoke in the wind,
cleared quickly
to let some exalted change begin.
I was the string
that made the puppet dance,
the shooter
when the die was cast,
the sting
felt only at the last,
the catalyst
changing lead to treasure,
the valve eliminating chance
when politics were heated under pressure.

©2003 by icebox

Cpat Hair

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since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

1 posted 2003-10-15 08:52 AM

I am no one now,
and many years before
I was certainly no one
you would ever want to know.
I'm not famous,
never was,
I'm just a name lost to history
ah but we are all "someone" and that someone is not totally defined by what we were...but what we are today...and what we would not share..and of what we would..

enjoyed the read Ice... and the thoughts it brought to mind..

Gentle Spirit
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since 2000-10-09

Posts 13989

2 posted 2003-10-15 09:05 AM

enjoyed this read very much and at times lately have asked myself that very same question and haven't exactly found the answer yet...who am I?
much to ponder in your words, well done.

[This message has been edited by Gentle Spirit (10-15-2003 09:05 AM).]

Susan Caldwell
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since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

3 posted 2003-10-15 09:12 AM

"I live quietly now,
the only paddle stirring water in my life
is perhaps my poetry"

I for one am very glad about what those lines up yonder say...

As for the rest? lol seems to me we all have ghosts, sometimes ghosts that are repugnant to "normal" society...what the heck do they know? As your title implies we are who we are today...
I know I get excited when I see your name on the board with a new piece...

Love you Icy one!

Susan

scorpio
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since 2002-10-02

Posts 5178
right...there

4 posted 2003-10-15 09:26 AM

"...why you should have known me
in the day...." I think you shared some of your past with us in this rivetting write..

believe in what your heart feels...

Ratleader

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since 2003-01-23

Posts 7026
Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass

5 posted 2003-10-15 09:32 AM

It's a bold and necessary question to ask. At one level I'm chagrined that I have almost no answer to it -- and no almost no question.

but there was a time
as old men say,
"...why you should have known me
in the day...."

A beautiful young lady with whom I could have -- and maybe should have, but didn't -- begun a romance once asked me, "Ed, have you ever done anything bad in your entire life?"

"No," I said, with a tinge of shame.

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vandana

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since 1999-10-22

Posts 10463
USA

6 posted 2003-10-15 10:00 AM

enjoyed

Martie

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California

7 posted 2003-10-15 10:32 AM

icebox

Hug! I'm glad you are who you are, right now! Thanks for sharing your life and thoughts here, in poetry.

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

8 posted 2003-10-16 03:58 AM

and it's aweful good to meet ya

nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

9 posted 2003-10-17 05:29 AM

I find you very interesting...
*s

A very good write...you definitely were and are no a "no one".

M

Earth Angel
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since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

10 posted 2003-10-17 08:28 AM

"I Am Only Who I Am Today" ~ and that is saying a whole lot, Dear Box of Ice!

I have respect for your writing ability--and for the man who pushes the pencil!

You are who you are!--and that's a good thing!

EA

ethome
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since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

11 posted 2003-10-17 08:32 AM

Nice share and a great thought provoking piece.
Very enjoyable read.
Got a kick out of Michael's reply....smile....

Eric

Ain't doin nothin at all
Just answerin the call
Kinda driftin away from it all~~~~~

angelblueyes
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since 2003-07-19

Posts 2148
Oklahoma

12 posted 2003-10-17 12:24 PM

I am only who I am today and I love that person that you are.You will always be rembered by me in your words of thoughts and wisdom.

Crystal

serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

13 posted 2003-10-17 12:48 PM

Smile.

You hit the target bull's eye once again, ice...

"I was fire
into which others threw the fat,
I was the edge
upon the bloody blade,"

and I'm not sure if we just get SMART or TIRED...

Heh. I just noticed I said "WE". LMAO...here I am talking like I'm DONE..chuckle.

loved this, you. Hugs.

rhyme time
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since 2003-10-17

Posts 13

14 posted 2003-10-17 02:22 PM

this is the first obe i have read since joining and im glad that it was the first

great job ice box

pandonov
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since 2003-10-03

Posts 478
b/w conscience and insolence

15 posted 2003-10-17 02:32 PM

awe, enjoyed the flow

garysgirl

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since 2002-09-29

Posts 19237
Florida, USA

16 posted 2003-10-17 02:34 PM

I live quietly now,
the only paddle stirring water in my life
is perhaps my poetry
but there was a time
as old men say,
"...why you should have known me
in the day...."
Well,
I won't even tell you that,
any sane person ran away;

No, Iceman...I couldn't imagine any sane
person wanting to run away from you...
now or then.

Hugs

Ethel

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

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Listening to every heart

17 posted 2003-10-17 02:46 PM

I am no one now,
and many years before
I was certainly no one
you would ever want to know.
I'm not famous,
never was,
I'm just a name lost to history;
I was at times the one who put the mist
in mystery,
the player
of a hand you'd never try;
I was the shadow without source
troubling the eye,
because reflecting
you might say I was the how,
when the real question
should have dealt with why.

~*~

By itself, a poem of its own.

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