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StarrGazer Senior Member
since 2000-03-05
Posts 679Texas 
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I'm putting my life in boxes filled with burning memories there are a few happy ones among the tumultuous churning sea My first instinct to pack them up To get away - to hide but even them I'm quite sure they'd refuse to be denied If only I could seal them could some how conquer the beast maybe from the darkness my soul would be released Starting over once again but still living in the shadow is there some way to unlearn things we wish we didn't know? I tape the boxes tight and thick there is no way they can get out but even through the cardboard I hear the memories shout Mystical being which makes ink flow Surround me in your incandescent glow Fill my brain with thoughts and rhyme As I try to capture but a moment in time ~Shan~ |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Exactly as you say...we must be using the same boxes. James |
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Danny Holloway Member Elite
since 2000-01-15
Posts 2034Tulsa, OK |
There is no unlearning, no release, no escape, only the echos of the past, that haunt and, yes change us in ways we may not understand. Very nice poem you have written. |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
My first instinct to pack them up To get away - to hide but even them I'm quite sure they'd refuse to be denied If only I could seal them could some how conquer the beast maybe from the darkness my soul would be released ------------------ Starr, this is perfect...what an awesome poem. so honest and emotion pure. its never easy moving forward...with our shadow ever behind...how well i know... suberb work in this piece. take care, jm ...when you walked into the room, I saw their faces, you made it feel like time was standing still...and I felt fascination... then you turned and smiled in my direction... and my heart...gave me away. glass tiger |
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Broken Member
since 2000-03-12
Posts 271The woods |
Starting over once again but still living in the shadow is there some way to unlearn things we wish we didn't know? ****** I've often wished for this myself, and you say it so well. Great poem! ~Hug~  |
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StarrGazer Senior Member
since 2000-03-05
Posts 679Texas |
James- I vote we throw away the cardboard and opt for some heavy duty reinfirced steel LOL Danny-I havent given up hope that there is a way to unlearn our pasts, or at least learn to deal with them in a more postive light... Janet-It's not easy ... but I am going to fina a way out of the shadow ... there has got to be a way ... and if not I will still have the hope that there is Broken- I think we all wish this at some point in time Mystical being which makes ink flow Surround me in your incandescent glow Fill my brain with thoughts and rhyme As I try to capture but a moment in time ~Shan~ |
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Munda Member Elite
since 1999-10-08
Posts 3544The Hague, The Netherlands |
Incredible how some memories of the past keep escaping from there boxes huh ? Great poem Starr ! |
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Isis Member Ascendant
since 1999-09-06
Posts 6296Sunny Queensland |
And when they escape from the box they always do at the most awful times, when you are trying so hard....... I know hon. WOnderful work There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self... ~Isis~ (Goddess - Sovereign of the Spirit) |
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Irish Rose Member Patricius
since 2000-04-06
Posts 10263 |
oh, to live in a box, do I know the feeling, very well said !!! Kathleen |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
Starr, I would say steel encased in concrete!! This is a wonderful poem, honest and heartfelt. . . I wish that life could be so easily contained sometimes. . . -------------------------------------------------------- That which gives light must endure burning --Victor Frankl |
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Joel the wolf Senior Member
since 2000-04-06
Posts 1333Angels Camp |
I tried to box my world once, What haunts us are the labels. Thank you, this was good. Joel. |
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AVANTI Senior Member
since 2000-02-02
Posts 664INDIA/MAHARASHTRA/PUNE |
this is such a beautiful one... still i feel memories have a way of catching up on us...so the tape won't do... simply great work!!! If all was light...then I would have never learnt the dark...from which such truth evolves from which evolves the light... Avanti Rao |
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StarrGazer Senior Member
since 2000-03-05
Posts 679Texas |
Munda- so true the memories seem to escape when we want them to stay hidden Isis- thanks it's great to come here and feel that others understand Irish Rose- thanks Avanti- tape I suppose is a temporary soultion maybe I will eventually work up to opening the boxes and dealing with each memory one by one and then they will become lessons learned instead of mistakes and regrets that haunt me |
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SEA 
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Member Seraphic
since 2000-01-18
Posts 22676with you |
Starr~ I saw the title to this one yesterday, I had a feeling it would touch me,so I waited. I was right! "I tape the boxes tight and thick there is no way they can get out but even through the cardboard I hear the memories shout" This is what got me, what I related to so very well. Loved this poem. -SEA |
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StarrGazer Senior Member
since 2000-03-05
Posts 679Texas |
Thanks SEA I'm not sure where thisone came from it kinda wrote itself on the flap of one of those boxes Mystical being which makes ink flow Surround me in your incandescent glow Fill my brain with thoughts and rhyme As I try to capture but a moment in time ~Shan~ |
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