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Open Poetry #33

My Phantom of Braille

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

0 posted 2004-08-06 07:24 AM

My Phantom of Braille

I often tap my cane of Braille
To lap the path that I might sail
A phantom staff of symbols cast
To mast the graph of futures last

It is a magic mind of flow
Each flake of new a different snow
Wondering worlds of fantasy
Argosies of literacy

The limit of my privilege
Stays horizons pilgrimage
And I am conquered by the awe
The very thought of evermore

I’m overwhelmed by minuscule
And cannot use an omni tool
To fool the fantasy of goal
And thereby grant myself a soul

And if this soul I would anoint
The status of my very point

Decaflame
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since 2001-05-11

Posts 1635

1 posted 2004-08-06 08:58 AM

Take that cane and do the soft shoe Sy...
with a little BoJangles by your side...

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

2 posted 2004-08-06 09:06 AM

Decaflame
If I only knew how to soft shoe? LOL

Decaflame
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since 2001-05-11

Posts 1635

3 posted 2004-08-06 09:18 AM

LOL...pretend you do,
and write of it, too!

Janet Marie
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since 2000-01-22

Posts 18554

4 posted 2004-08-06 09:22 AM

I’m overwhelmed by minuscule
And cannot use an omni tool
===========================

writing fiction today?

I got news for ya Sy-babers...your pen is your "omni" tool...and your poetry is the coolest of the cool.

Love the internal rhymes and word play in this Sy-guy.

miscellanea
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since 2004-06-24

Posts 4060
OH

5 posted 2004-08-06 09:38 AM

Enjoyed the Pantom of Braille. I loved the metaphor, "I tap my can of braille." Very visual!!! Have agreat day, Seymour!
miscellanea

vandana

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since 1999-10-22

Posts 10463
USA

6 posted 2004-08-06 09:50 AM

nice read

iliana
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since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

7 posted 2004-08-06 04:07 PM

"I’m overwhelmed by minuscule
And cannot use an omni tool
To fool the fantasy of goal
And thereby grant myself a soul"

Yes.....I think this is a phenomenal passage.

.....jo

Seymour Tabin
Member Empyrean

since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

8 posted 2004-08-06 07:59 PM

JM,
I know you are busy.
WWRS

Thank you vandana

iliana
A delightful reply, thank you sweet.

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