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LeeJ
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since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296


0 posted 2005-01-13 07:46 AM


Finding illusion most seductive
Truths elusive
Like a once in a lifetime blind date
Peeling back veneer in the dark
I take morning air in quiet
Like a banker’s romantic encounter
Interrupted by chance
Sculpting ideas of fate
In parallel universes

You know, back then
When everyone else wore pastels
I wore plaid…proudly…as a child
Still do…
Doesn’t seem to matter
They stuffed Kleenex in their bras
I wore T-shirts…still do…hehe, proudly

My tour de France loved me
Like a blind writer
With inquisitive mind
Taking me everywhere
Splashes of conceptual impact
With a tad of danger...yes
That being…the creative gift
Life’s valentine
Low key natural sounds
Being "the now", better part of life
And what about the image?

Well, reading over the book of Mark
Gives new meaning to the word…intimacy
Spending time in the park
Feeding migrating sea gulls

Look! I’m the blind man on the bench
Great to have voices in my head
My face loosing years
Longing and yes, some regret
Sometimes revealing worthless junk
Like a Tower of Babel
But hey....
Browsing a little less serious

Letting go of moments sometimes
Makes all the difference
granting freedom...
Memorizing my money maker
And up for the challenge

Dreaming Pablo Neruda songs
Living to talk about it…
Funding, will no doubt cover the cost
Nature’s technology makes it real
Going beyond

Timeline of events, games infinity
And still know nothing, really
But, the gentlest of all times
Sees tigers seated before a fireplace
Imagine…somber images looking in the mirror?

Shims of time, lend a twenty centavo piece
Cuz poetry always remembers
I’m not lost in a modern world
The modern world just lost me...
Have you ever sought that one word
Which created the universe?

Reality may avoid obligation
But the looks are in chronological order
I’m somewhere on a numberless shelf
Falsely cataloged

Leaning to associate the image
Accessing and searching
Open to suggestions
Archived, way past any editing
From worldly newsletters
See, there’s this Gnostic library
Floating around in my mind

Intellect can be human kind’s endless quest
But love impression...even if for one tiny moment
Can be one hell-of-an expression
Leading to extravagant happiness
For the rest of Life...
If one so chooses?

I wonder sometimes, how easy it would be not to think?
That’s the way it was once, with you...
And will be someday again...you'll see...

My translucent network always opens a book of surprise...like you used to...
Containing an entire new collection
Famously, remarkable…
Giving me, one more year of grace…
Never dreaming insulted again
Remember, you loved to tickle my sides

[This message has been edited by LeeJ (01-13-2005 10:52 AM).]

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Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07
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Tamarac Fla
1 posted 2005-01-13 07:55 AM


LeeJ
A world within a world. Sometimes you sweep me away. Good morning sweet.

JL
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since 2004-04-01
Posts 6128
Texas, USA
2 posted 2005-01-13 11:02 AM


"I wonder sometimes, how easy it would be not to think?"

.
Meeeee toooo!

But you are doing some heavy thinking with this write.  Excellent Lee J.

JL



Margherita
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since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236
Eternity
3 posted 2005-01-13 12:23 PM


Intellect can be human kind’s endless quest
But love impression...even if for one tiny moment
Can be one hell-of-an expression
Leading to extravagant happiness
For the rest of Life...
If one so chooses?


Wow!
Dear Lee, you are so rich in your sharing ... that I have to pause and  ... THINK! Never would want to lack that possibility!

Exceptional write.
Love, Margherita

Juju
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Posts 3429
In your dreams
4 posted 2005-01-13 01:21 PM


I like this one.
DavePage
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since 2003-12-21
Posts 2917

5 posted 2005-01-13 01:50 PM


Lee J

I think this is excellent.

I really like it.

Dave

Martie
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6 posted 2005-01-13 02:12 PM


Leej

"Leaning to associate the image
Accessing and searching
Open to suggestions
Archived, way past any editing
From worldly newsletters
See, there’s this Gnostic library
Floating around in my mind"

Your way with words makes me think you do have a library floating around in your mind!

"Intellect can be human kind’s endless quest
But love impression...even if for one tiny moment
Can be one hell-of-an expression
Leading to extravagant happiness
For the rest of Life...
If one so chooses?"

Yes, it can!  

Love the poetry of you, my friend!  

Ericc
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since 2003-01-31
Posts 4178

7 posted 2005-01-13 03:24 PM


Awesome write!

Eric

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