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Open Poetry #32

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icebox
Member Elite

since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

0 posted 2004-05-26 11:23 PM

I stared through empty shadows,
windows dusky dark with age;
fleeting images,
stark bubbled memories
swelled within my brain
screaming,
"Hey, come here you schmuck,
come watch
and feel,
your past is still alive,"
but like flying cheap glass ornaments,
falling
from a leaking sky,
they dashed themselves
on mindless rocks,
where reality mocks the hopelessly optimistic;
no more could they enlighten me,
no more could they survive.

©2004 by icebox

Kaoru

Member Elite

since 2003-06-07

Posts 3892
where the wild flowers grow

1 posted 2004-05-26 11:39 PM

"Woah" and "Wow"...

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

2 posted 2004-05-27 12:21 PM

no more could they enlighten me,
no more could they survive.

I've heard that (and I paraphrase) called a spiritual death and I've heard we go through several before we're done. Dark, but not. Sad but not.

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

3 posted 2004-05-27 03:55 AM

I think of things I never think of otherwise when I read you

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

4 posted 2004-05-27 04:02 AM

icebox - Your writing continues to amaze me and I shall continue to come back here for that pleasure.

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

5 posted 2004-05-27 08:38 AM

I know when I click on your name..
I am in for an excellent read.
This was no expection!
Hugs~

~Somewhere in my heart I'm always
Dancing with you in the summer rain~

Susan Caldwell
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

6 posted 2004-05-27 08:44 AM

I read the title and thought:

"Oh, no way would I go there"

LOL

"cast me gently into the morning, for the night has been unkind"
~Sarah McLachlan~

Duncan
Member Ascendant

since 2001-08-07

Posts 5455

7 posted 2004-05-27 03:06 PM

"where reality mocks the hopelessly optimistic"

Very cool line, love the title too.

James_A_Fraser
Senior Member

since 2003-09-03

Posts 972
Out Making Anticlines

8 posted 2004-05-27 03:20 PM

Is there karma, really? There's Joss, I know that, because I've had both kinds. But it seems to me that karma is mainly a matter of choice.

~~J

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