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inkedgoddess
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-11-19

Posts 7392
Ohio

0 posted 2004-11-25 09:25 AM

As i reach for them
more keep falling

be careful of the pretty ones

they've yet to be given
final destination

as the withered and crippled
are cast off to the side,
in manmade mountains
manicured for appearances sake

some are sewn in seams
going silently mad
in suffocation of black plastic

until the devil comes
and spins them
on eterity's ride

be careful where you walk,

spare the pretty ones

as i reach for them

more keep falling

[This message has been edited by inkedgoddess (11-25-2004 11:02 PM).]

stevebrklynnyc
Member

since 2004-01-04

Posts 292
GA, Camden

1 posted 2004-11-25 09:33 AM

I wish I was more carefull where I have walked. Your post invokes days long since past for me. Enjoyed this muchly, Steve.

Sunshine

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

2 posted 2004-11-25 10:34 AM

A beautiful write,
and the Earth Mother is smiling...

for this is chock full
of compassion...

vandana

Member Patricius

since 1999-10-22

Posts 10463
USA

3 posted 2004-11-25 10:35 AM

enjoyed

ice
Member Elite

since 2003-05-17

Posts 3404
Pennsylvania

4 posted 2004-11-25 11:34 AM

I hate when I see leaves in black plastic coffins..Dumped into landfills..The pretty ones fall because they have work to do, even after death, as all living things do....turn them and me back into the earth..let their skeletons and mine decay and nourish other things to come...it is natures way of not wasting things.

enjoyed this one very much, Inky..

_________ice
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[This message has been edited by ice (11-25-2004 12:20 PM).]

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

5 posted 2004-11-25 12:01 PM

Lovely...reminds me of my 12th stanza of my "Autumn Leaves Dodecagon,"

XII
and I test the supple flora
finding most have spent their lithe moments
and become brittle, fragile, delicate
as they decompose their last hours
before dust claims them, salts them
into a semblance of invisibility
where they feed the future
tasty genomes for breakfast

©November 10, 2004

Thanks for posting a truly different form of an enjoyment of autumn, despite the sadness of loss.

Whether on the shoal or on the shore,
I'll seek the lighthouse evermore.

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

6 posted 2004-11-25 12:06 PM

A bittersweet write indeed...much enjoyed.
Happy Thanksgiving Michele to you and yours.

Susan Caldwell
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

7 posted 2004-11-25 07:04 PM

"be careful where you walk

spare the pretty ones

as i reach for them
more keep falling"

Beautiful Michele! Happy Thanksgiving!

"cast me gently into the morning, for the night has been unkind"
~Sarah McLachlan~

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

8 posted 2004-11-26 05:39 AM

what a beautiful heart

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since 2004-03-21

Posts 3188
The World of Poetry

9 posted 2004-11-26 03:30 PM

wow...beautiful write.

~Alli~

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Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened...

inkedgoddess
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-11-19

Posts 7392
Ohio

10 posted 2004-11-26 08:00 PM

thanks for walking with me

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