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Krawdad
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since 2001-01-03

Posts 2597

0 posted 2004-01-03 08:10 PM

               If I Could Know Your Name

               We return to the beginning
               with a new notebook
               for words to be carved from rough blocks
               even of ice
               We recall some success, or bet we can
               as we feel the comfort of old tools
               that trace yet another pattern

               Let us guide each other
               from page to page
               following pens while still they move
               and search for ourselves again
               in the fading ink of imagined voices
               we’ve never heard

               A power has been renewed
               and a filament glows

                     © 010204

Startime55
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since 2003-04-05

Posts 2148
Alberta, Canada

1 posted 2004-01-03 08:20 PM

Let us guide each other
   from page to page
   following pens while still
   they move

Wonderfully expressed....for is it not this that draws us to read the wonderful words of others....let them be a guide and inspiration to us all...

Sunshine

Administrator

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

2 posted 2004-01-03 08:37 PM

The light dawns...
the emerging, begins.

Thank you, Sir!

Patricia
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since 2003-04-06

Posts 2160
Missouri

3 posted 2004-01-03 08:54 PM

Hi Krawdad.  I loved your poem!  Particularly touching to me:

Let us guide each other
from page to page
following pens while still they move
and search for ourselves again

We see ourselves in the words of others and we learn so much about ourselves, and we learn we are not alone and our feelings are validated...

Did I mention how much I love this?  I did?  Well, it bears repeating!

Patricia

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

4 posted 2004-01-03 09:33 PM

What a talent you have sir.
Well done.
Hugs~

In the midst of winter..
I found there lives within me,
an invincible summer.

Greeneyes

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since 2000-09-09

Posts 9903
In Your Poetic Mind

5 posted 2004-01-03 09:34 PM

wonderfully done sir...

ice
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since 2003-05-17

Posts 3404
Pennsylvania

6 posted 2004-01-03 09:53 PM

K-dad
Does this poem describe an attempt at making up after a breaking up of a relationship?

"We return to the beginning
with a new notebook"

"we feel the comfort of old tools
that trace yet another pattern"

And perhaps a hint in the last stanza that the renewal is already in the works and is working?

  "A power has been renewed
  and a filament glows"

Even if I am way off, I enjoyed reading this poem....:-)
_________ice
    ><>

Michelle_loves_Mike

Senior Member

since 2003-12-20

Posts 1189
Pennsylvania

7 posted 2004-01-03 10:45 PM

we all need to help each other form page to page,,,and from time to time
Michelle

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

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

8 posted 2004-01-04 01:36 AM

I enjoyed the hopeful sound of this note. Wishing you a wonderful year, Krawdad.

[This message has been edited by Midnitesun (01-04-2004 09:23 AM).]

Kahlil
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since 2003-04-12

Posts 1881

9 posted 2004-01-04 03:22 AM

Enjoyed this lovely, hopeful write. Happy New Year... ~K~

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

10 posted 2004-01-04 03:48 AM

wonderfully beautiful

Krawdad
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since 2001-01-03

Posts 2597

11 posted 2004-01-04 08:29 PM

Hey, thank you all for stopping by.
I appreciate your comments.
I suppose this is my New Year transition poem, with a little cold and a little light.

And Ice, that's an interesting interpretation, though I did not have that in mind. Then again, the hand, the pen, and the paper is a relationship. Sometimes it breaks up, sometimes it makes up.

Kraw'

nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

12 posted 2004-01-05 09:36 AM

then I love it when the hand, pen and paper make up

M

vandana

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since 1999-10-22

Posts 10463
USA

13 posted 2004-01-05 10:05 AM

liked this

Nightshade

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since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

14 posted 2004-01-05 10:14 AM

Kraw, well now, this is nicer than a "lavender bubble bath"

Your words are such a pleasure to read. hugs, Chris

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."
-Plato

garysgirl

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since 2002-09-29

Posts 19237
Florida, USA

15 posted 2004-01-05 05:13 PM

  @  Chris, reply........

and warmer than the seat of a little red car....  LOL

Seriously, Kraw, this part really stood out to me....

             Let us guide each other
               from page to page
               following pens while still they move
               and search for ourselves again
               in the fading ink of imagined voices
               we’ve never heard

Very beautiful writing, poet, Sir.

Hugs

Ethel

iliana
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since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

16 posted 2004-01-13 02:12 AM

Krawdad -- you wrote:

"Let us guide each other
               from page to page
               following pens while still they move
               and search for ourselves again
               in the fading ink of imagined voices
               we’ve never heard"

And I was impressed!

Susan Caldwell
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

17 posted 2004-01-13 08:35 AM

"A power has been renewed
and a filament glows"

I am very glad someone brought this back to the top, because I missed it.

And what happened to your picture??

"if you won't let me fall for you
then you won't see the best that I would love to do for you"
~Dido~

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

18 posted 2004-01-13 10:52 AM

Krawdad~

'We return to the beginning
with a new notebook'

What a treasured thought~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram
[email protected]

1slick_lady
Member Ascendant

since 2000-12-22

Posts 6088
standing on a shadow's lace

19 posted 2004-01-13 12:30 PM

my name is...helen

Terrina
Member

since 2003-12-31

Posts 166
California

20 posted 2004-01-13 12:33 PM

Isn't it crazy. We all have this bond and so much in common and no not each other.
But hello, my name is Terrina.

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