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kayjay
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since 2002-06-24

Posts 2015
Oregon

0 posted 2004-07-03 04:22 PM

The Builder

While the thump of a hammer is music to me,
And the smell of new wood is complete ecstacy,
When I take to a pen to compose of my toil,
Well the words will not come, and it makes my blood boil.

I can hang all the sheetrock a bedroom can use,
And I’ll get it all taped for I’ve well paid my dues.
As for wiring a lamp or just adding a socket,
I can tackle a house and there’s no one will mock it..

If you bring me your plumbing with plug or with leak.
I can fix it so dandy and clean it will squeak.
So don’t tell me of love and of hearts that have splattered,
While I sit here to tell you of things that have mattered.

Give me blueprints and mortar, I’ll build anything.
But dear muse, would you help me? Please make my words sing.
I just weep as I read here of rainbows and sunshine.
For I never will learn how to make all this fun mine.

And it’s not that I’m needing a muse who can nag,
For she’ll just give me grief; say I’m surely no wag.
To epistle my labors to a friend I find warming,
But to say them in rhyme? There’s no words I am forming.

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

1 posted 2004-07-03 04:28 PM

Are you for hire?

Well done!

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

2 posted 2004-07-03 09:03 PM

Muse? A Muse? Did I hear someone say they need a muse??
Wonderful write Ken...very much enjoyed..
now when will you teach me how to rhyme?
~Smiles & Hugs, Nancy~

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

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

3 posted 2004-07-03 09:14 PM

Ken

After sunshine, can I hire you? Your poem made me smile, as usual. Thanks for that. Now, quit working so heard and go out and enjoy the beauty of nature...then write a poem about it. (or not)

iliana
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since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

4 posted 2004-07-03 09:21 PM

Ken, no words you're forming, huh?! Riiiight...lol ...... You surely built a grand poem here and I thoroughly enjoyed it!

....jo

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

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displaced

5 posted 2004-07-04 04:39 AM

muse? she comes and goes

James_A_Fraser
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since 2003-09-03

Posts 972
Out Making Anticlines

6 posted 2004-07-04 09:17 AM

I know this feeling well ~~ don't we all! On the other hand, I've found that a muse is a bit like a garden. There'll be weeds, but it pretty much gives back the kinds of things we've sown in it.

I think I'll plant a row of Kayjay in mine.

~~J

James_A_Fraser
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since 2003-09-03

Posts 972
Out Making Anticlines

7 posted 2004-07-04 09:17 AM

How odd.... I've heard others say they get double entries sometimes ~~ now I know what they mean!

kayjay
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since 2002-06-24

Posts 2015
Oregon

8 posted 2004-07-04 02:38 PM

Thanks to each of you kind enough go comment. Ken

Through rubble and trouble and dark of night
The yawn of a dawn will hasten the light

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