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Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

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Gaia

0 posted 2004-08-08 01:30 AM

This is an edited re-post,
dedicated to all who have been
an invisible shadow.

You dare to be yourself
and let everyone see.
I envy your brave posture,
so different from me.

I am just a shadow,
there really is no me.
Only in a reflecting pool,
sometimes a glimpse of thee.

Or so it seems this soggy day,
when all I want is to go out and play
in puddles and dance on warm wet leaves,
wipe the mud off of my sleeves.

A mosquito buzzed past me last night,
looking terribly important and busy,
somewhere to go, something to do.
Buzzed right past, without a bite.

She did not even see me.

*

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

1 posted 2004-08-08 07:34 AM

Gosh, dear Kacy!
... sometimes such a feeling of invisibility can surge, I know, but your description is really incredibly original and stirring ...

Good you speak in the past tense ... in the title.

You are safely back on track!

Love, Margherita

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

2 posted 2004-08-08 07:54 AM

Midnitesun
We are all invisible at times.

Good write.

kayjay
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since 2002-06-24

Posts 2015
Oregon

3 posted 2004-08-08 09:08 AM

The advantage of being invisible is that nothing more can befall us for a while. Well written! KJ

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

Sunshine

Administrator

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

4 posted 2004-08-08 09:18 AM

I am just a shadow,
there really is no me.
Only in a reflecting pool,
sometimes a glimpse of thee.

~*~

I know this...

A few years ago, my daughter gave me Midler's "Beaches" album, saying, "the main song is for you, Mom, from me."

Kacy...I'm going to trust you know what that song is.

Kids can really reflect us, at times when we least expect it...

and thank you, gal, for being visible to me.

Susan
Member Ascendant

since 2004-03-27

Posts 5104
walking the surreal

5 posted 2004-08-08 10:00 AM

this is a sensation felt by so many, even those whom one might think is laid all out there for everyone to see. it is a sorrowful sensation, less of course you wish to be invisible at that moment, then, of course, it comes in quite handy. your poems tend to make one take consideration, this is good.

susan

Happiness isn't something that happens to you, it's created from within you. Joy is a state of mind.

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

6 posted 2004-08-08 10:07 AM

Margherita, thanks, it's nice to have a reply from you.
Sy,

Ken, thanks for seeing and understanding my shadow.
Karilea, I do know, and what a wonderful gift she gave you, to say you are her hero!
Susan, thanking you for that reply, and for the time you take to 'feel' my posts.

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

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California

7 posted 2004-08-08 11:06 AM

Kacy

There have been times in my past when I've felt like this...but not any more, thankfully! So well written...left me a bit shaken.

Startime55
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since 2003-04-05

Posts 2148
Alberta, Canada

8 posted 2004-08-08 11:21 AM

Oh my, YES...I know this feeling well...It seems to have been in another lifetime when youth had not learned the hard lessons of life...Magnificent...

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

9 posted 2004-08-08 12:02 PM

thanks for the repost

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

10 posted 2004-08-08 03:18 PM

I may be 'invisible' for the rest of today by choice. LOL, it is graduation day for my daughter, Sara.

see you tomorrow

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

11 posted 2004-08-08 03:37 PM

I think everyone has felt this way at least once in their lifetime. Much enjoyed the visuals.......jo (Have a great day and celebrate!)

Duncan
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since 2001-08-07

Posts 5455

12 posted 2004-08-08 08:08 PM

Mosquitos never bite me. Hell, I thought it was a good thing...

Congrats to Sara and her Mom.

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

13 posted 2004-08-08 09:43 PM

OhKacy~

'a reflecting pool'

...stirred a poetic memory in me~
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Thank you~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram <))><

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