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Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

0 posted 2004-01-07 02:18 PM

Comes to be that I am dead
Spread my ashes on the river
That I might be trapped in the stones
Lining edges and bottom
And drown forever in the words
They spoke to me
When ears were not enough
To hear all that was said.

Then come Spring
And she is pregnant with flood
Let me be covered in silt
Carried from hills that
Were my playground
Of learning to see beauty
And that all things
End

Someday when all the ages
Have rolled past any who would care
Or know
I’ll be stone
To be skipped along
The rippled waves
From some child’s hand

Maybe then
I’ll understand…

and all the words
and all the space between
will come clear and I
can begin
to truly live again

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

1 posted 2004-01-07 02:22 PM

Ron...This is so profound and also so touching. Very much enjoyed!

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

2 posted 2004-01-07 02:24 PM

I so enjoy promises.
Thank you, Cap'n.

Library.

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

3 posted 2004-01-07 02:44 PM

CPat~
This is just plain wonderful !
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

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

Susan Caldwell
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

4 posted 2004-01-07 02:44 PM

"Maybe then
I’ll understand…

and all the words
and all the space between
will come clear and I
can begin
to truly live again"

If truly living were dependent on clarity and understanding...none of would have the ablity to be happy...

We accept what we may never understand...and move on.

It was a profound writing...one which I read again just to enjoy the talent behind it.

"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~

Greeneyes

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since 2000-09-09

Posts 9903
In Your Poetic Mind

5 posted 2004-01-07 02:52 PM

rubbing my eyes, not 1 BUT 2 beautiful writes.....wooohooo any thing is POSSIBLE!!

ya know I love this....good to see you home again -- writing and gracing us with your talent....heart hugssss....

~~**~~
This morning theres a calm I cant explain
By the time I recognize this moment it will be gone,
I will bend light pretending it lingers on

MARK V SHELDON
Member Elite

since 2001-06-21

Posts 3015
In a corporeal internship...

6 posted 2004-01-07 06:29 PM

LONG time -- no read, my friend... It's so refreshing to read one of yours after all this time. This one, in its own way, made me picture the novel "A Separate Peace" for some reason -- the tone and mood, I suppose. You always have a way of flowing with your words -- much like the river described. Solid expression.

-MVS

You CAN make a difference:
http://educate-yourself.org/

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

7 posted 2004-01-07 06:49 PM

Thank you Captain.

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

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

8 posted 2004-01-07 08:33 PM

Wonderful write. I especially enjoyed the first stanza.

jwesley

ice
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since 2003-05-17

Posts 3404
Pennsylvania

9 posted 2004-01-08 08:50 AM

Loud applause!
Excellent poetry...enjoyed
_________ice
><>

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

10 posted 2004-01-08 08:56 AM

Cpat,
A wallow in the hollow that is easy to follow. Well done my friend.

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

11 posted 2004-01-08 12:01 PM

my library thanks you for this one, Ron
I'll be looking for a skipping stone today, and holding onto the feel of this write

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

12 posted 2004-01-08 12:48 PM

a fine write here...yes

Kaoru

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since 2003-06-07

Posts 3892
where the wild flowers grow

13 posted 2004-01-08 01:11 PM

I am not allowed to utter my response in text upon this forum.. all I can roughly translate it into is ..wow.

miscellanea
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since 2004-06-24

Posts 4060
OH

14 posted 2010-07-02 09:30 PM

After reading a poem of yours where you said you were writing a series, I decided to try to find where the series began. I haven't yet, but this title captured my eye, and am glad it. Liked your analogies! Very cleverly written.

misce

miscellanea
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since 2004-06-24

Posts 4060
OH

15 posted 2010-07-02 09:32 PM

Meant to save this...Click!

Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

16 posted 2010-07-02 11:37 PM

I won't say it...I won't, I won't.

But you know!

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