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Tahitian Noni
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Tahitian Noni |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296
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I’m happy to make your acquaintance Oh this symbolic transformation That smile, four steps beyond me Absorbing more nutrients The gestures, turning instances to words The charm of your mind, drowns in my body We lived in France immortal of irrational You are the lightness of being And the slowness of life in another place Betraying blindness, and the fall, the fall To a happy death With life elsewhere glancing up and about During a hapless urgency, night summoned To an almost religion, and saving face Yet now, pressed against me you are happiest Distractions and grievances locked away Still free to move, but not in “our” place! We…rose to the occasion By the incredible volume interpreting A higher state, where beast nor man May go beyond….heretofore waiting…found Was our parable, giving concrete vision X-ray eyes…desirable meanings acting out To the taste of our own powers…minus kryptonite You were indeed a class act! Sophomores of torch flares Paying attention with half-shut eyes Blissful knees kept an artistic rose-color Melting away all signs of hunger And all obstructing walls egg shelled How vainly sun glitters Hammering out its fists to publish another day Learning to skate, without falling down Perceptible addition to Paradise Have we lost our lust of pursuit? Or merely turned true instinct With ends of thread trailing after life Sounds rather like the rustling of wakening leaves On an oak tree in spring Looking quit senseless and overwhelmed Yummy...Tahitian Noni |
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Grover Senior Member
since 2004-01-27
Posts 1967London, ON, Canada |
Lee, you've such a gift. " kryptonite," it's been a while since I've seen that word! |
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JL Member Ascendant
since 2004-04-01
Posts 6128Texas, USA |
Wow! Lee J: This is a great write. I have never tasted the juice, but if it can make me write like you do, then, I want a gallon or two! This was very, very nice! Way to go Lee J. |
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DavePage Member Elite
since 2003-12-21
Posts 2917 |
Lee Always have my thoughts for what I felt I understood Dave |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
welp, now I'm convinced I need some of that stuff! |
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Susan Caldwell Member Rara Avis
since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348Florida |
The title is what grabbed me...lol...you would have to see my yahoo profile (cheekys0d) to understand...  The words are what kept me reading.."cast me gently into the morning, for the night has been unkind" |
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