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inkedgoddess
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-11-19

Posts 7392
Ohio

0 posted 2003-10-19 08:18 AM

Who will care for
these stranded ones?
I wonder why they even stay the cold
when they are gifted with the power
I can only reap thru intoxication,
or poetic imagination,
they are wed to the stoic rocks they sit upon
painted into a muted watercolor,
granite statues of grey,
with black disc like eyes
they watch the magician's movements,
as they peruse me
and clock me for scraps,
I am the queen of this court
and they, my subjects,
I grant them a reprieve
from the rusty garbage pails
where they stall their hunger
on leftovers of a tourist's last suppers,
on a 99 cent loaf of white,
I feed their empty bellies,
what a sport I am!
as if my sins will all wipe away
if i bless these creatures,
so i play god with them,
then taunt them
"now u see it ,now you dont"
I am beauitufl and evil
on the same toss of the hand,
when I run empty of all but a plastic bag,
like a mothers breast deflated of milk,
I become anyonymous again to them
until the next time,
as they fly off now
thankless,
as I track them,
me now the one
with her face to the sky
looking for crumbs of insight,
hints of what doorways
they tap upon on a bird's flight,
as if they even care
if they ever enter the dreams
of a man they'll always love

*o if just to be one with them, if only for a day,
to leave this wretched life of ours and just to sail away***************************

[This message has been edited by inkedgoddess (10-20-2003 08:29 PM).]

James_A_Fraser
Senior Member

since 2003-09-03

Posts 972
Out Making Anticlines

1 posted 2003-10-19 10:35 AM

Sometimes they want the Staff of Life, and sometimes a lively staff -- each can be arranged for, and in much the same way!

~~J

Marge Tindal

Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

2 posted 2003-10-19 08:59 PM

This is such an expressive piece -

'me now the one
with her face to the sky
looking for crumbs of insight,
hints of what doorways
they tap upon on a bird's flight,
as if they even care
if they ever really touched someone
deeply enough ,
inside.............'

I adore these thoughts and thank you for sharing~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram
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bklynboy
Senior Member

since 2002-12-15

Posts 660
florida

3 posted 2003-10-20 01:57 AM

Powerful!

PassionandFun
Member

since 2003-07-30

Posts 60

4 posted 2003-10-24 12:44 PM

Where do you find the time to squeeze so much imagery into one literary piece??? Well done, once again.

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

5 posted 2003-10-24 04:44 AM

this is very deep and quite intense

inkedgoddess
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-11-19

Posts 7392
Ohio

6 posted 2003-10-24 06:35 AM

thanks for digging this up j
yes it is intense
i am one intense girl

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