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jwesley
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0 posted 2004-06-30 10:30 PM


...written for a friend in high school who wanted to send her ex-boyfriend a note (he found a new girlfriend)I think we were studying cliches then - don't think I've ever stopped either!


Cast Off The Chains

I’ve said it so many times
shown it in so many ways
I’ve used God’s own skies
everything in day and dark
my body
my heart
my soul
my words . . . and still
I come up short

I cannot give you
what I don’t have,
say what I don’t know
be more than I am

yet . . . that’s not enough

Cast off the chains,
turn me loose –
set me free . . .
remove all thought
and sight
and dream

release me

please

release me

free me . . . of you.


w. james beard, jr.
© june 1961


...by the way, she was released. After receiving this he told her to get the Hades out of his life! Whooooop!

© Copyright 2004 Wesley James Beard, Jr. - All Rights Reserved
iliana
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1 posted 2004-06-30 10:44 PM


Jimmy, this was good, never mind if you think it cliche!   ....jo
Midnitesun
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Gaia
2 posted 2004-06-30 10:54 PM


LOL, enjoyed this one.
rwood
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3 posted 2004-06-30 11:01 PM


I'm not positive, but I think we could have all used this poem back in highschool. "Release me" for first love 101. Heartbreak High...enjoyed this..

Sincerely,
Reg

passing shadows
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4 posted 2004-07-01 03:42 AM


yep
nice write

jwesley
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5 posted 2004-07-01 08:40 AM


Thanks for the read/comments all...and

Reg, I'm pretty sure your comment applies to my high school class for sure  - - - and me thinks, especially if you look over the things written in this forum, things haven't really changed over the years with relations between couples - even those married.

So, I assume "first-love 101" is an on-going class never meant to be graduated from...??

But that's unfair I guess - I've yet to speak with anyone who wanted things to go "wrong" (not-counting certain justifiable incidents).

Nice speaking with you...

jwesley

Susan Caldwell
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since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348
Florida
6 posted 2004-07-01 10:39 AM


"I cannot give you
what I don’t have,
say what I don’t know
be more than I am"

Amen.

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

1slick_lady
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since 2000-12-22
Posts 6088
standing on a shadow's lace
7 posted 2004-07-01 10:43 AM


"I cannot give you
what I don’t have,
say what I don’t know
be more than I am

yet . . . that’s not enough"

story of my (love life)

Sunshine
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8 posted 2004-07-01 10:45 AM


Lucky her.

Lucky us that you've kept this, for it is as clever now, as it was then.

Well done, Sir!

Enchantress
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9 posted 2004-07-01 11:30 AM


Excellent write my friend!
One I think we can all relate to.
Hugs~

Something tugs at me, I've no doubt of that.
Something from the sea, whichever one I'm near.
When I stray too far from beachland, it calls me back

Gentle Spirit
Member Patricius
since 2000-10-09
Posts 13989

10 posted 2004-07-01 11:31 AM


Heartbreak high indeed, and some of us can still apply this even ....well....this many years later....lol.  *w*  enjoyed it Jimmy.
garysgirl
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11 posted 2004-07-01 11:44 AM


James, I e thoughts behind your poem.
If a person can't accept us for who
we are, we don't need them in our lives.
Hugs,
Ethel

suthern
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12 posted 2004-07-02 11:51 AM


I cannot give you
what I don’t have,
say what I don’t know
be more than I am

yet . . . that’s not enough

If only we graduated from that particula dilemma when we received our high school diploma! *S* Excellent!!

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