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cookie cutter tears |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738
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There's a child I didn't know orphaned in my yesterday of this now discovery and I'm supposed to care today because it is the headline news topic of the day, my friend. Tell me does it make it less if I post an announcement? Tell me does it make it more that I wrote this poem for Dylan he's a poet too. (Did I write this just for you?) Scratch your head and guess regret letting loose the vein the taste of the waste of time test true should I count replies and cry stating that his mother died three years after Daddy did counting oxycontin death (please, sir, can I have some more?) orphan, orphan dignity Did you count the drops of bleed sprayed across the bathroom floor and splayed like art upon the walls Did you wonder what that was as you played in bubbles bathed in pretense normality? oh dear god Don't talk to me. There's a child I do not know. He was orphaned yesterday. and I dare to choose to think that perhaps a slave was freed from the claw of destiny gripping too mechanically for a quarter prize. He is nine years old and I didn't know his name until I heard that she died today as I cut the flour, sugar trees - sprinkled with some sparks of green-- and Dylan is his legacy "Lord, she gave him name." I said, wondering what to do I bled cookie cutter tears. |
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nakdthoughts Member Laureate
since 2000-10-29
Posts 19200Between the Lines |
this touched Karen..well written feelings  M |
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GG Member Elite
since 2002-12-03
Posts 3532Lost in thought |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
oh gawd  |
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*Alli4000*
since 2004-03-21
Posts 3188The World of Poetry |
 wow.~Alli~ Happy Holidays! |
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Nightshade 
since 2001-08-31
Posts 13962just out of reach |
Oh my .. oh my. Hugs dear lady. Chrislane |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
serenity, It's all in a lifetime and there is more to come.  |
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icebox Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383in the shadows |
"wondering what to do I bled" ...and wrote. ...and shared. Thank you. |
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ethome Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858New Brunswick Canada |
Wow! Very touching words with excellent images to back them up. Eric IF YOU HAVE TO JUDGE SOMEONE DO IT ON THE SIDE OF MERCY AND LET TIME SEASON THE RESULTS. |
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RSWells Member Elite
since 2001-06-17
Posts 2533 |
A stunning, grievous and wrenching write. |
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wranx Member Elite
since 2002-06-07
Posts 3689Moved from a shack to a barn |
This is Art, Karen As for the subject...I can only echo what's already been said Hugs, m'witch (And have yourself a merry little Candlemass) |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
""Lord, she gave him name." I said, wondering what to do I bled cookie cutter tears." Ah gawd Ser...this is heart-wrenching. Hugs to you sweet lady~ |
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Ericc Member Elite
since 2003-01-31
Posts 4178 |
Very powerful. Eric |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
thank you I wish I could say I made this one up. But sadly for the third time in five years, a child in my "social circle" has been orphaned due to drug overdoses. It kind of puts the lesser things in life in perspective. My friend's sister is going to take care of him. She's a good girl and she'll be a good mother to him. *shaking my head* If not better. My friend died a mess and it scared the crap out of me to think such a thought. And I don't know why I'm telling ya'll all of this, but I just wanted to say, "let's be kind to one another". Life is a bitch. No need to be one.  And even if I can live that creed for only one day, I intend to try.Hugs to you all. And if you are the praying sort, say a prayer for little Dylan. |
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pandonov Member
since 2003-10-03
Posts 478b/w conscience and insolence |
sad, but incredible poem |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
"cookie cutter tears" ...  |
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Gentle Spirit Member Patricius
since 2000-10-09
Posts 13989 |
Indeed Dylan is in my thoughts K, as are you. Gut wrenching is correct... heart hugs. |
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Susan Caldwell Member Rara Avis
since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348Florida |
and maybe your telling of his story got through to someone, somewhere.. to you Karen, because I know those tears are oh so real.love ya lady. "cast me gently into the morning, for the night has been unkind" |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
I rarely see our Moth lost for words... and I am sorry for the reality of the write... as I know a Dylan, I shall say an extra prayer for his "twin"... Thank you, serenity. |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
hugs my friend... ya know you write it so well.. you always touch me. |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
thanks for the understanding (I didn't intend to prostitute our friendship or her memory for the sake of replies.) I had known her for over thirty years, but in the last five, I confess I had sort of distanced myself from that social circle. So the news wasn't shocking to me, but then again, it was. I don't believe that any of the friends I have lost to drugs intended to die. Now that is something that has been on my mind, and if it makes someone else think about the dangers and complicities of an accidental overdose, then I don't particularly mind sharing her story or mine. Peace to you all, and happy holidays. I'm off to study algebra. (yeah, I know, I told my son I failed it myself, but he still thinks I can help. *chuckle* Gotta love his faith in me tho.) |
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