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Open Poetry #34

Shoveling Debris At A Wake

icebox
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in the shadows

0 posted 2005-01-30 11:28 PM

feathers of stories

freely floating winds of change

memories drifting

incense and nonsense

social clutter in passing

hymns meeting challenge

animal senses

carefully left within reach

long honed by practice

shadows of wonder

patterns of truth for the blind

sheltering reason

the amenities

impersonal images

kindness without warmth

©2005 by icebox

Ratleader

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1 posted 2005-01-30 11:39 PM

...or as my son says of gatherings with that texture, "Let the standing around begin!"

There should be a better way to fully honor without lapsing into triteness -- there is one, but we don't seem to know what it is.

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Martie

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2 posted 2005-01-31 01:12 AM

icebox

Perhaps we are so busy denying death happens, that when it does, we're not sure how to behave.

serenity blaze
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3 posted 2005-01-31 01:23 AM

So many feelings, so much emotion at those times, I recall tho, being the audience, wondering, and then, when it was my turn to stand up bravely, I thought, "so this is what's it's like"

Thank god/dess for "shock".

Without that, I might have succombed to the urge to burn the whole damned place down.

sigh

*hug*

passing shadows
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displaced

4 posted 2005-01-31 02:11 AM

you do these very well

I enjoy you

Robert Frazier
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5 posted 2005-01-31 11:43 AM

. . .i have found them, myself, a perplexing place for reflection. well written, as usual!

Rf

Susan Caldwell
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since 2002-12-27

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Florida

6 posted 2005-01-31 07:27 PM

yanno, my mother had 18 brothers and sisters..which makes for a huge family...and there have been many deaths...

why is it the debris is always the same crap?

*sigh* but yes you are right, and so very wise..

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

DavePage
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7 posted 2005-01-31 08:47 PM

Good thought provocating meanings.

Dave

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