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1slick_lady
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standing on a shadow's lace

0 posted 2004-10-18 08:04 PM



Stucco


I watch the walls
follow it to where it inches
to the curve of the only thing
being touched in this room
the colliding of a ceiling
a lofty place I have come to know
in the limits of what is allowed
my dreams seem to stop there
under conditions that do not fly
I wish to be between the cracks
that decorate the exterior
but stucco has my wings


© Copyright 2004 Helen Chambers - All Rights Reserved
ctowen
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since 2001-10-18
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Green Mountains of VT
1 posted 2004-10-18 08:26 PM


Dream hard and dream full for such dreams shall set you free!


        Enjoyed the flight but I think the sky may fall after all!!


                         Thanks for the smile!  

Huan Yi
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since 2004-10-12
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Waukegan
2 posted 2004-10-18 08:29 PM


FRAGMENT OF A GREEK VASE


In the foreground you see
the handsome body of a youth

his chin leaning on the chest
a knee bent
hand like a dead branch

he has closed his eyes
renouncing even Eos

her fingers thrust into the air
her flowing hair
and the lines of her dress
form three circles of sorrow

he has closed his eyes
renouncing his copper armor

the beautiful helmet
decorated with blood and a black plume
the broken shield
and spear

he has closed his eyes
renouncing the world

leaves droop in the silent air
a branch trembles touched by a shadow of flying birds
and only the cricket hidden
in Memnon’s still living hair
proclaims a convincing
praise of life


Zbigniew  Herbert



passing shadows
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displaced
3 posted 2004-10-18 08:43 PM


I know that ceiling
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