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DavePage
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since 2003-12-21
Posts 2917


0 posted 2004-01-05 06:55 PM


Talent will not draw nothing but blood
You scream in the night and day
Enough
Protect me, forgive me, I didn't want these words
And the ant with a silver shoes
Trundles around your world
Tears on a keyboard care for words
You can't stand in reality
You heard o'h you heard
Curtains shut
Heat kept in
Hands aching
For what
Some idea of glory
Some soul forsaken lost
Some cliche
Ticking

And still the dreams of words
Echo around my brain
Everytime I start again
I am
Never the same

++End of Words++

Now I do what I said to someone - go into the poem and drive it from the inside.
Blood screaming enough forgiveness
Words my horse could write
Silver shoes mother's words
A fisherwoman's fingers maimed
Reality shutting curtains
Because glory is forsaken
By the Grandfather Clock
And the world is stirred
Not shaken

Now I do w

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wintertao
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since 2003-11-17
Posts 366
Okaloosa Island, FL
1 posted 2004-01-05 07:04 PM


Dave...I like your style alot...I look forward to your posts because you are very creative and dare to be different...

You start the poem off with a borderline double negative....very gutsey

aye needs work but 'tis an unpolished gem fur shure, your light shines. Your a hellof a poet friend.

Michelle_loves_Mike
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since 2003-12-20
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2 posted 2004-01-05 08:12 PM


i find myself having to reread your work a few times for it to sink in,,,,,your words,,,,and wintertoa,,,,are alike in many ways,,,,,both leave you thinking
Michelle

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

passing shadows
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3 posted 2004-01-06 04:18 AM


I have to agree with the above comments
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