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icebox
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since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

0 posted 2003-11-22 11:41 PM

When I was really poor,
stealing milk from doorsteps
filching food to eat,
I used to dream
of living without cares,
I thought love
somehow would come in time,
a partner I would think as mine
and I wouldn't always have to look
over my shoulder.

Now I am a great deal older,
and it's true
I've loved a few,
and perhaps among the dead
there was a partner.

I tell you honestly
I've learned a lot this time around;
I don't think
I'll make the same mistakes again;
I know it's in the nature of my soul
that I am drawn to war,
despite the karmic pitfalls
for which I've yet to make amends,
but I've come to think
it's for the purpose
of seeing that it finally ends.

Life has a meaning,
and it's simple.
We exist to learn
and by that learning
we may grow,
and by that growing
we may come to know,
and by that knowing
we may learn
enough to satisfy
the greatest curiosity,
the pure simplicity
of understanding,
and then,
you see,
when that is done
we're free.

©2003 by icebox

Kahlil
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since 2003-04-12

Posts 1881

1 posted 2003-11-22 11:48 PM

...I'm in the knowing stage...

I really love these lines:
I know it's in the nature of my soul
that I am drawn to war,
despite the karmic pitfalls
for which I've yet to make amends,
but I've come to think
it's for the purpose
of seeing that it finally ends.

Keeping this one. ~K~

Ratleader

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2 posted 2003-11-22 11:54 PM

Good words, 'box... good words indeed.

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passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

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displaced

3 posted 2003-11-23 04:03 AM

me, I'm not learning anything lately...and maybe that's why it feels as if I'm dying

SharaRose
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since 2003-07-19

Posts 2501
Somewhere out there~

4 posted 2003-11-23 11:35 AM

And here's hoping your journey is wealthy in knowledge that does not bring you back to pain.

Love,
Terri~

Hockeychick19
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since 2002-10-29

Posts 430
Massachusetts, USA

5 posted 2003-11-23 11:41 AM

Icebox,

I'm sorry you had to deal with all that pain. I hope things get a little better for you now.

*hugs*
~Kelly~

Life is a gift so live it to the fullest!

Pilgrimage
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since 2001-12-04

Posts 3945
Texas, USA

6 posted 2003-11-23 12:09 PM

Kudos for taking on 'the meaning of life'. I've never had the courage to do that all at once. I kinda increment-it along, I guess. And where's the bit about sitting in front of the TV and scarfing nachos? That ought to be in there somewhere.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

Dark Angel
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since 1999-08-04

Posts 10095

7 posted 2003-11-23 02:51 PM

I'm a bit slow and still learning heh. Enjoyed this Ice very much.

fate is not just
whose cooking smells good
but which way the wind blows

(Ani DiFranco)

Martie

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8 posted 2004-01-19 12:26 PM

icebox

"we may learn
enough to satisfy
the greatest curiosity,
the pure simplicity
of understanding,
and then,
you see,
when that is done
we're free."

It is good then that I am so curious. Hug!

Michelle_loves_Mike

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since 2003-12-20

Posts 1189
Pennsylvania

9 posted 2004-01-19 12:59 PM

I very much a gree icebox, we go round many times,,,to learn, and learn more....we will never learn all we need to know,,,so it is a never ending journey of learning,,,,
Michelle

I wish all could find the true happiness I have found,,in the eyes of Mike

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10 posted 2004-01-20 09:20 AM

What seems to be fate can be a lifelong pattern of yielding to what may be no more than infatuation -- and more damaging than helpful in the long run. The critical difference is in knowing which, and having the strength to follow that knowing.

A sail is useless and even harmful without a keel and rudder; curiosity is pointless or worse without discernment...and choice.

For instance, if you're in a restaurant with someone you hope you have a future with, and the inevitable hottie walks by...do you let your eyes wander and your date think less or you, or manage to keep them pointed in her direction? Curiosity, discernment, choice.

This poem gave me even more to think about this time around than it did the first time I saw it.

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Cpat Hair

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Posts 11793

11 posted 2004-01-22 09:20 AM

Life has a meaning,
and it's simple.
We exist to learn
and by that learning
we may grow,
and by that growing
we may come to know,
and by that knowing
we may learn
enough to satisfy
the greatest curiosity,
the pure simplicity
of understanding,
and then,
you see,
when that is done
we're free.
boiled down like this is does seem simple.. it is the lessons we learn that are sometimes complex or seem so to us. Some we learn early and many are hard... some we deny this time round...

always enjoy reading you... and always go away thinking about the past.. the present.. try to leave the future alone right now, bt am not always able to do that.

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