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Kaoru

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since 2003-06-07

Posts 3892
where the wild flowers grow

0 posted 2004-01-12 10:28 AM

I've chosen one hand to hold.

One set of lips to kiss, tenderly,
and eyes to look upon as closed and sleeping,
in the silence of morning.

I do not trust romantic ponderings,
as I do not fall for the stories.

If I were to admit my hatred for you,
it would be admitance of my love all the same.

So what do we have in store but snowfall,
sliding on the ice and falling,
bruises that won't heal,
scrapes that burn perpetually..
Tears that never cry themselves apart from
my eyes, and which hand will I hold as
I'm dying?

Would you still love me if I lost my grace,
acquired a tired body with age,
lost my words and my mind ..Would you
still care if I never allowed my heart to mend
from the past's gashes that roll
like pearls across my skin?
If I
never looked at the sky again,
or could not reach you from afar..
Would you still gather me in your arms after
years of knowing each and every seed
of thought I'd been sowing,
would you still indulge in my pools
that blink with the darkness of decades
of pain?

I am unsure of this wisdom I've supposedly
obtained..
Masses of flowers bending at my feet,
and I wonder why the wind blows
so violently when I have chosen
one hand to hold..

Is guilt a folly of man, do I ask and grow curious
by the way you've chosen to walk away...

But peeking through the trees
is the light that once felt like fire..

Would you come back .. if I let you walk alone..

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

1 posted 2004-01-12 10:34 AM

Kaoru
All these changes you speak of happens to everyone. The hand you hold ages as you do.
Enjoyed

1slick_lady
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since 2000-12-22

Posts 6088
standing on a shadow's lace

2 posted 2004-01-12 10:35 AM

my how i have missed you and your verse...you can make the sparrow's songs sound like cackles...your talent astounds me...h

EvocativeVerse2
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since 2003-09-10

Posts 1279

3 posted 2004-01-12 10:38 AM

Gulp! Wow! I could not praise this piece enough. Well done!

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

Michelle_loves_Mike

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since 2003-12-20

Posts 1189
Pennsylvania

4 posted 2004-01-12 11:08 AM

The grip may change,,,,,,but, to know that hand will always be there,,,,,what better
As for falling on the ice, and the pain there of,,,,,I like this metaphor,,,,,,again,,,,that hand will be there to keep you from falling,,,,,or even to help you up,,,,so long,,,as you keep your grip as well,,,,,good write
Michelle

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

MARK V SHELDON
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since 2001-06-21

Posts 3015
In a corporeal internship...

5 posted 2004-01-12 11:35 AM

Damn, your good! Such passionate yet delicate yet poignant imagry in a chilling flow... May it never ebb.

-MVS

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

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

6 posted 2004-01-12 12:17 PM

there is such a fine line between the love and the hate

every line you've written here I can understand and feel inside me

every question you've pondered, I have asked myself

awesome work!

Dark Angel
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since 1999-08-04

Posts 10095

7 posted 2004-01-12 02:34 PM

DAMN! I wish I had written this.
It's exceptional....that's my opinion and I'm sticking to it.

keeping it.

M

Beauty of the world which is soon to perish has two edges, one of laughter and one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
(by Virginia Woolf)

Susan Caldwell
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since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

8 posted 2004-01-12 02:57 PM

Meg~

I have so missed your words...

They read like poetry should.

"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~

inkedgoddess
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since 2002-11-19

Posts 7392
Ohio

9 posted 2004-01-12 05:18 PM

ansswer or not, the questions are beautiful and introspective as you are

Krawdad
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since 2001-01-03

Posts 2597

10 posted 2004-01-12 09:41 PM

If you gave up skating
for fear of the fall
again
If you sought your own warmth
curled into a ball
what then?

kraw'

ambrya_nell
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since 2004-01-11

Posts 28
Ohio

11 posted 2004-01-12 10:45 PM

abolutely wonderful
I love how you've arranged the questions i've pondered to myself so many times....
I look forward to reading more of your work.
keeping this one!

wordwizard
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since 2003-09-08

Posts 483
on the way to next world

12 posted 2004-01-12 11:03 PM

musings well penned and pondered

Youngatheart
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since 2003-12-30

Posts 333

13 posted 2004-01-12 11:25 PM

I have struggled with the mingling of love and hate.
I give this work an A++++++

iliana
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since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

14 posted 2004-01-12 11:31 PM

Wow!

Dark Angel
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since 1999-08-04

Posts 10095

15 posted 2004-01-13 01:59 AM

God I love this.. had to come back for another read.

M

Beauty of the world which is soon to perish has two edges, one of laughter and one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
(by Virginia Woolf)

Aenimal
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since 2002-11-18

Posts 7350
the ass-end of space

16 posted 2004-01-13 04:26 AM

damn..

Sunshine

Administrator

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

17 posted 2004-01-13 06:41 AM

Who hasn't ever wondered [perhaps not so eloquently] this very thought? I have a dear friend who sent this to me and for that, I know I shall never completely walk alone.

Megan...magnificent!

Karilea - if I whisper, will you listen?

kissa~rachelle
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since 2003-11-27

Posts 988
nowhere special

18 posted 2004-01-18 02:19 PM

I..loved this. I have asked these questions so many times before, and the way you put them together...wow. I hope to see more of your work.
Kissa~

**~kissa~**
*I wanna be a little more like me, and a little less like YOU!*~ Linkin Park

Cpat Hair

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since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

19 posted 2004-01-19 09:21 AM

not sure I have the words..so I'll just echo Mark.. damn you are good...

muted

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since 2004-01-15

Posts 2949
Elapsing, Eclipsing, Evolving

20 posted 2004-01-19 12:54 PM

i find real courage to be truer than love, the latter could not truly exist without the former........this was inspiring.

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