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James_A_Fraser
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since 2003-09-03

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Out Making Anticlines

0 posted 2004-01-16 12:54 PM

He Would Like

Oh he would like to give it up,
simply bolt for the nearest horizon
and keep on tumbling on until
somewhere it isn’t always noon,
someplace where a moon will rise
up over random buildings,
where he’d sit day after night
on a stair or a ledge over a sidewalk
playing maybe a saxophone
for nothing but a D-minor tremolo
off the end of an empty street.

Things would take care of themselves
then, or not. It wouldn’t be a concern,
and he would be the bluesbird
with music pouring out of him
like water from a fountain, a steady mild
blown by that mellow horn out there
or spoken in off-white rooms
where he might return night after day,
a place with play posters on the wall
and a scent of rose, an alcove
off the world where he could hear
the sound of his own smile again.

Oh he would like that very much.

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

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displaced

1 posted 2004-01-16 12:58 PM

gotta do what makes ya happy

iliana
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since 2003-12-05

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USA

2 posted 2004-01-16 01:21 PM

James, I identify with this one! Good write.

Terrina
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since 2003-12-31

Posts 166
California

3 posted 2004-01-16 02:10 PM

It doesn't take much to make men happy does it

richard taylor
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since 2004-01-13

Posts 136

4 posted 2004-01-16 03:02 PM

Hi James,
I enjoyed this poem a great deal, full of feeling a real fine piece of writing.
regards Richard.

Nightshade

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since 2001-08-31

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just out of reach

5 posted 2004-01-16 03:25 PM

This is an awesome write James. Very much enjoyed! Chris

"When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know
that your name is safe in their mouth." Billy - age 4

suthern

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since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

6 posted 2004-01-16 05:10 PM

And I like this very much. *S* This haunts me with melodies that linger from street musicians I've heard... playing every bit as much for themselves and the night as for the tips they'll take home.

And yet... there are other levels... each one more beautiful. *S*

Martie

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California

7 posted 2004-01-16 05:45 PM

Jamie

Sometimes I have wished for a similar place, someplace where there was no worry, no regret, just peace and some lovely music to make. I think it's a bit sad, yet human to feel this way.

Marge Tindal

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Florida's Foreverly Shores

8 posted 2004-01-16 05:50 PM

Jamie~

'he would be the bluesbird
with music pouring out of him
like water from a fountain, a steady mild
blown by that mellow horn out there
or spoken in off-white rooms
where he might return night after day,
a place with play posters on the wall
and a scent of rose, an alcove
off the world where he could hear
the sound of his own smile again.'

She would like to join him there~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram <))><
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BluesSerenade
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since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

9 posted 2004-01-16 08:51 PM

You're playing my song James....
Gosh, I really loved this bluesy tune of yours.

One more time now, big guy~

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