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Coffee and Cigarettes |
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IndigoEve Member
since 2003-01-10
Posts 279Etched in the illusion of time 
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Upon waking in Paris, the morning of Judgement Day, you shared a revelation with Bukowski, none too heavy, quiet ways like sleep speak into the ears of a sifted night. All but a few colors are in your lips, my narratives fell to the ivory, mimicking Pennsylvania skies in foggy weather. The shadows are heavier in summer, smaller than Emily's nameless kin, and thicker. Mixtures of seasons, carving our names along the bleeding cobblestones with nothing more than graphite teeth and a segment of Seperation to keep our plasma from the gutter. We never found it strange how the cafés desert themselves, and I was left alone, between the Spanish dawn with whispers of India written by your severity, driven through my palms and I am unlike Christ in my poetic stigmata. Within the occasional gasp of recognition, these secrets slip from under our hands and fall into the streets; we could never clot the blood burned into their sidewalks. I was the yellowed pages inside your books the brittle flower pressed amid tear-smudged, sanguinary words. On this note, you reminded yourself how hated little scraps of paper had become and instead, marked each unfinished line with coffee-sated thumbprints. My fingers used with purpose. Flawless is your cliché, until winter settles into our half-French bones and the sun will betray each cigarette burn left on these inexpensive sheets. I cannot hush you, curing myself on the curb as I smoke Americana blends. Neither of us will realize it as far as the next aromatic morning, but I roll off your tongue like this broken city in the spring. If I were to touch you, would you bleed a velvet river, running miracles through the sodden ground? --Moi |
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Greeneyes  
since 2000-09-09
Posts 9903In Your Poetic Mind |
there is so much depth to this I am in complete awe, such an amazing talent you have to bring the reader right to the very point in which this was born.....WOW! I don’t want the world to see me |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
NIce to read...James |
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Greeneyes
since 2000-09-09
Posts 9903In Your Poetic Mind |
 I don’t want the world to see me |
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Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
IndigoEve~ You already know how much I admire your talent ... this is word-rich~ 'my narratives fell to the ivory' Oh my ... oh my~ *Huglets*  ~*Marge*~ ~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost, |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
flawless write, wonderful imagry fabulous read, thank you for sharing! |
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littlewing Member Rara Avis
since 2003-03-02
Posts 9655New York |
Good Lord, I just saw Pound, Hemingway and Ferlinghetti . . . *tossing pen in garbage immediately* This is BEYOND amazing . . . |
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wranx Member Elite
since 2002-06-07
Posts 3689Moved from a shack to a barn |
Much better than nice... I was led by a friend to this post and glad of it. I'll need to start paying attention to you. Much, much better than nice! |
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garysgirl
since 2002-09-29
Posts 19237Florida, USA |
Excellent writing, IndigoEve. I really enjoyed reading your poem. Thanks for sharing your talent with us. Hugs, Ethel |
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miscellanea Member Elite
since 2004-06-24
Posts 4060OH |
I may not be the best poet, but I know talent when I see it. Truly amazing writing! I look forward to reading more of your work. miscellanea |
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iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
WOW, not Emily, and not like Christ....but what a creative write....outstanding. |
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Effigy Member
since 2000-04-11
Posts 486disbelief |
It was a good read. Well done, I enjoyed it. |
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froggy Senior Member
since 2003-06-23
Posts 1893Michigan |
One word.....Wow |
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Gentle Spirit Member Patricius
since 2000-10-09
Posts 13989 |
You are indeed talented and gifted. Very well done. |
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