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Magnus

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since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

0 posted 2003-11-04 04:03 PM

Blue-grey, the hues of death that so enwrapped as
shadows of darkness fell before the now chilling feet
as this moment becomes but an ellipse,
a pause in the sentence of life.

I felt the breeze of her as she left her lifeless
shell.  Simply a mere blink lay between a last
beat...a last breath...and silence. My eyes staring,
a captured breath straining against lungs
that ached to scream, to cry.  Hoping to see yet
another flicker of life....now gone.

Strange, this messenger who rests a hand upon
our shoulder each waking day.  One who
shuffles the dune of our stage and stares
incessantly at the hour glass.  He who walks
without eyes, for eyes might give the puzzle’s
last piece away,  allowing a soul to shirk and
evade the reaper’s felling scythe.

Soon,  the leaves again shall bud the stems,
and a ring shall grow beneath the rugged
bark.   Waiting, ever waiting...for a
breath to feed the hunger of babes...as
sands slowly sift our days...and a learned hand
rests, steadying a weary  walk against the stone’s
trip.  Until an eye's blink of time.

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

1 posted 2003-11-04 04:48 PM

Barry...You are a writer with amazing talent!!
So much enjoyed the read today.
Thank you for this.
Hugs~

~Time has cast a spell on you,
So you won't ever forget me~

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

2 posted 2003-11-04 05:18 PM

Magnus~

I felt the breeze of her as she left her lifeless shell'

Oh my ... you've touched an exhaled moment in my life with this thought~

I tell you, not lightly, that this one stays with me~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram
noles1@totcon.com

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

3 posted 2003-11-04 08:19 PM

An awesome title...an excellent read.
Thank you, Magnus!

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

4 posted 2003-11-04 09:03 PM

Barry...So very poignant!!

allamericanjoe
Member

since 2003-10-02

Posts 116
Iredell county, NC

5 posted 2003-11-05 12:14 PM

"tear" Wow, thanks for a wonderful read.

"The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time" ~James taylor~

EvocativeVerse2
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since 2003-09-10

Posts 1279

6 posted 2003-11-05 02:04 AM

Bravo Barry. Loved the poem. And thank-you for the wonderful web pages you gave to me. I am reading them with much interest! Your buddy - Kevin.

Remember, if you're not part of the future, you're history!

Earth Angel
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since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

7 posted 2003-11-05 03:09 AM

"I felt the breeze of her as she left her lifeless shell."

Both professionally, and personally, I have experienced that far too many times. You have captured that moment exquisitely.

Linda

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

8 posted 2003-11-05 03:45 AM

always a pleasure to read your heart

Mistletoe Angel

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since 2000-12-17

Posts 32816
Portland, Oregon

9 posted 2003-11-05 04:10 AM

(big hugggssssssss) Oh Barry, your poetry always hits home, sweet friend, it speaks in so many volumes and takes us down like a submarine deep into the opaline depths of human emotion! (sigh) God Bless You, sweet friend, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Barry, thank you for sharing!

May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

I don't need no proof when it comes to God and truth
I can see the sun set and I perceive

***Live***

garysgirl

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since 2002-09-29

Posts 19237
Florida, USA

10 posted 2003-11-05 10:20 AM

Barry, as with all your poetry, this is beautiful, and
each word written with expertise. I'm going
to keep it to study. Hope it's okay.

Hugs

Ethel

mysticpoe
Senior Member

since 2003-02-28

Posts 883

11 posted 2003-11-05 10:42 AM

You connected us well. This type of conveyed communication is very hard to do, and you did a nice job with it. Nice write, enjoyed the read.

poe

If nothing is something
then everything is
our thoughts and feelings
and all that exists.

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

12 posted 2003-11-05 11:22 AM

Barry
A very sensitive write and a very good one I might add.

Pilgrimage
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since 2001-12-04

Posts 3945
Texas, USA

13 posted 2003-11-05 11:25 AM

I start thinking like this, and seeing the mortality. It makes me sad. Well said, well written.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

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