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icebox
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in the shadows

0 posted 2004-10-27 08:30 AM

There are times
when I miss the days of thunder,
and in missing
I begin to wonder if the monster still
is locked down tight within my soul;
I fear not for humanity
nor struggle with eternity,
I have earned whatever karmic debts may be,
it is just the tense vibrations in the air
from time to time
that momentarily lift my heart to soar;
this life I live today
is a strange way to be free
having more than once wandered through the world,
driven only by the winds of war.

When the bullet hits the ground,
finally it is free in peace
and has returned to ask forgiveness of the Earth,
and the Earth accepts it willingly,
unfailing,
without judgement,
without sackcloth enfolded guilt,
not as some redemption for choices of its flight,
nor as repentance
for serving in a specie’s impassioned crimes of right,
but merely for existence,
an equal partner child,
in time returning all its energy and form
to the warehouse of supplies
with which all of life is built,
for even heavy metals fill a needed space;
the Earth receives it all without complaint,
just as the Mother can conceive,
and has capacity to suckle at her breast
and love with equal passion,
the child of a satan or a god.

I will not stand for judgement
on beliefs,
nor on my deeds,
before any
but the essence
of the universal life force I contain;
for me there is no ceremony
no joyous sad refrain,
I have carried the awareness
of the voice inside the will
in shaping life,
having known I’m not the grip
nor guard
nor steel that forms the knife,
instead have been an instrument of choice
made for the edge upon the blade.

©2004 by icebox

Cpat Hair

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1 posted 2004-10-27 08:31 AM

as usual.... well done sir.. and the ideas contained within...

Seymour Tabin
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Tamarac Fla

2 posted 2004-10-27 09:05 AM

icebox
Enjoyed and liked best your two ending lines.

Susan Caldwell
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since 2002-12-27

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Florida

3 posted 2004-10-27 09:23 AM

hmmmmmm...

food for my soul.

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

Gentle Spirit
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4 posted 2004-10-27 09:33 AM

Susan said it best....
indeed food for the soul...

Honeybunch
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South Africa

5 posted 2004-10-27 12:22 PM

Icebox .. all and everything is in the "knowing" and you know! Well said, dear poet friend.

Martie

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6 posted 2004-10-27 02:40 PM

icebox

You are enlightened, and enlightening.

Midnitesun

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Gaia

7 posted 2004-10-27 02:44 PM

sharp and to the point
as I've come to expect
from the sword of icebox

Midnitesun

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Gaia

8 posted 2004-10-28 12:34 PM

quote:
When the bullet hits the ground,
finally it is free in peace

thank you, for understanding

Ratleader

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Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass

9 posted 2004-10-28 09:23 AM

Interesting, isn't it, how one renders the other obsolete....almost...reduces it to the role of pocket pal...almost....but can't ever do it completely. Always a role for that keen hard edge, when things get close and quiet and dirty, and the strokes are short.

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passing shadows
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displaced

10 posted 2004-10-28 09:28 AM

I always love your thoughts

wranx
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Moved from a shack to a barn

11 posted 2004-10-28 09:31 PM

Outstanding write!

The mettle of Lead and of Steel...

Magnus

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South Carolina, USA

12 posted 2004-10-28 10:04 PM

Only a warrior can write this wisdom and
share truth so vividly. Well done Ed...

MGROVES

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california

13 posted 2004-10-29 01:27 AM

yes, well done

Dark Angel
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14 posted 2004-10-29 05:43 AM

Outstanding indeed, couldn't choose a favourite line only becasue I love them all.

it's a

Maree

and I am haunted
by my illicit exquisite dream
but I can't really wake up
so I just drift in between

~ani difranco~

Aenimal
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the ass-end of space

15 posted 2004-10-29 09:30 PM

I will not stand for judgement
on beliefs,
nor on my deeds,
before any
but the essence
of the universal life force I contain;

very well said ice

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