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nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

0 posted 2003-11-16 08:48 AM

Of Life

I watched as the limbs severed,
my glasses safety fogged,
sweating away memories of sweeter times.

I prepare to burn, soapstone and cast iron
cleared of accents and ashes
from years ago, when fear entered the mind
and all warming halted.

The cold fills the aloneness of reflections wanted
to lick away the shivering,
to glow inward and release the scent
of a warmer time.

It was my tree of life, of hope and fantasy
now to be a temperate fill of warmth, a necessity
leaving me with words of poetry
to watch as the flames touch me
with the missing.

M

"Love is not blind - It sees more and not less, but because it sees more, it is willing to see less."
(Will Moss)

EvocativeVerse2
Senior Member

since 2003-09-10

Posts 1279

1 posted 2003-11-16 08:51 AM

Oh nakdthoughts! This is a great piece. Love it! You do this oh so well my friend. Bravo I say!

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

Seymour Tabin
Member Empyrean

since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

2 posted 2003-11-16 08:55 AM

Maureen,
There is cold flame and warm flame, the choice is yours.

Well written

nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

3 posted 2003-11-16 08:59 AM

Thanks EV2..I finally got half the tree that has died by the hands of the gas company, cut down and have been busy sawing it into sizeable pieces for my woodstove that I haven't used in 8 years(my neighbors had a house fire back then and it worried me into non-use of the stove) With the cost of heat up, I have decided to begin using it again...besides I have plenty of wood now.

Thanks Sy, it will be a warm year~~
M

Patricia
Member Elite

since 2003-04-06

Posts 2160
Missouri

4 posted 2003-11-16 09:09 AM

It was my tree of life, of hope and fantasy
now to be a temperate fill of warmth, a necessity
leaving me with words of poetry
to watch as the flames touch me
with the missing.

Maureen, this is beautiful. My friend, you often speak my thoughts, but you do it so much better than I.

Hugs,
Patricia

nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

5 posted 2003-11-16 09:43 AM

Thanks Patricia...the tree was an inspiration for many of my first poems...
especially those of love.

I still have another half to cut down...but it will bring me warmth this winter.

hugss
M

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