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Ratleader

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0 posted 2004-10-28 06:08 PM

Waiting For Inspiration

I read my mind’s old magazines,
waiting room chairs always too hard,
too soft, used up in me. I wonder
if the clerks have all gone home.
Dulled pictures, the text of memories
and the musak almost memorized,
I hardly need the pages
fading dog-eared into time and use,
still I turn them to have something
to do with my imagination.

Subscriptions, what happened
to all my subscriptions?
Did I have any, or are these thoughts
merely discards people brought in?
Surely I had something new once,
surely I was new once, all clean
in here behind my eyes, stiff with
the smell of mortar and fresh paint?

I can’t say. Maybe it was on
some page torn surreptitiously
and slipped, half-folded, into
a pocket, or more likely a purse.
It isn’t in me now, I know that.
Still I hope to hear them soon,
the quiet quickly steps up to
the empty service window, and
a voice to me from inside there.

I’m alone in here,
I would have to be next,
wouldn’t I?

Krawdad
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1 posted 2004-10-28 06:14 PM

Get in line, buddy!

e

Margherita
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Eternity

2 posted 2004-10-28 06:37 PM

Very original thoughts here, Ratleader!

Beautifully inspired ... by an only apparent lack of inspiration!

Love, Margherita

JulieAnn
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3 posted 2004-10-28 06:41 PM

Walking through my mind I always seem to find things that I once lost...

Great writing
Julie

Martie

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4 posted 2004-10-28 06:46 PM

Ed

"I’m alone in here,
I would have to be next,
wouldn’t I?"

You may be alone within your own mind, but we all have waited in this same line, for inspiration...I certainly have. I think you have treasure in there...just look at this poem you made from nothing.

Susan
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since 2004-03-27

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walking the surreal

5 posted 2004-10-28 08:14 PM

Wow - felt this - understand. Well written.

Susan

Happiness isn't something that happens to you, it's created from within you. Joy is a state of mind.

GG
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Lost in thought

6 posted 2004-10-28 09:10 PM

Obviously, you don't need any more inspiration then you have now. Even your words about waiting for it are amazing. So, when you get some, could you give it to me, please? I could use some inspiration about now. I felt like I was there, reading, waiting with you...

Always, Alyssa

He was a man of sorrows
...I am a girl of tears.

wranx
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Moved from a shack to a barn

7 posted 2004-10-28 09:36 PM

Well now,
You've done some fine re-cycling of those old musty pages.

pandonov
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8 posted 2004-10-28 10:23 PM

quite interesting write, and definately very original idea

passing shadows
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9 posted 2004-10-29 01:57 AM

I relate

Dark Angel
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10 posted 2004-10-29 05:38 AM

I always enjoy your thoughts Mr Rat

Mxx

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

~ani difranco~

hoot_owl_rn
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since 1999-07-05

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Glen Hope, PA USA

11 posted 2004-10-29 10:02 AM

smiling...well, I suppose you would have to be next

Great poem Ed, and much said between the lines of this one

Lady In White

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12 posted 2004-10-29 11:24 AM

Dulled pictures, the text of memories
and the musak almost memorized,
I hardly need the pages
fading dog-eared into time and use,
still I turn them to have something
to do with my imagination.

~*~

So nice to know
that others feel the
edge of that corner...

abbymatilda
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since 2003-12-22

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13 posted 2004-10-29 11:37 AM

How beautiful. The expression is "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade" but your "lemon" of feeling without inspiration has turned into a very fine wine! What an amazing poem.
Abby

Paula Finn
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missouri

14 posted 2004-10-29 12:20 PM

Sometimes its whats left behind that draws our thoughts, imagination,hopes...I really like this

LeeJ
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15 posted 2004-10-29 12:23 PM

ingenious and superb!

Cpat Hair

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16 posted 2004-10-29 01:33 PM

I can’t say. Maybe it was on
some page torn surreptitiously
and slipped, half-folded, into
a pocket, or more likely a purse.
It isn’t in me now, I know that.
beg to differ...

nicely done...

Copperbell
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17 posted 2004-10-30 12:57 PM

much enjoyed

Greeneyes

Member Rara Avis

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In Your Poetic Mind

18 posted 2004-10-30 01:00 AM

this is inspiration...indeed

~~*~~
Read between the lines
look deep into each word
and you will understand the
depth of my soul (GE)
~~**~~

BluesSerenade
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By the Seaside

19 posted 2004-10-30 04:03 AM

This hits a little too close to home...
I don't dare look for inspiration in the waiting room.
Ya know me, she's so vain..... I want to sit pretty in my pain.

Miss you Ed~

suthern

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since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

20 posted 2004-11-03 03:44 PM

And you're waiting???? *S* I could copy line after line I'd be proud to see flow from my pen... While you wait, you leave the rest of us in your dust. *G*

I love this, my friend... and suspect the ending will be with me for a while. *S* Excellent!!!

nakdthoughts
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Between the Lines

21 posted 2004-11-03 03:57 PM

yes, a very nice flow to your words~~

M

Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

22 posted 2004-11-03 04:31 PM

When I go through
those old subscriptions
I always wonder
of the people who
momentarily made them, "theirs",
and removed parts of it
for their own use,
forgetting its need to stay
whole.

Well done, Sir...

Saunni
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since 2000-07-11

Posts 1777
West Virginia

23 posted 2004-11-04 02:13 AM

I'm not sure what I should say to this. This piece shines far more brighter then the sun. Excellent!

Sauni:)The Only Time I See The Sun Is When I'm Within That Vanilla Breeze.The Only Time I'm One With The Sun Is When He Shelters Me From The Rain.

miscellanea
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since 2004-06-24

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OH

24 posted 2004-11-04 09:38 AM

RatL.,
   Glad to be back for a little while.  You haven't changed!  Your poetry still dangles its creativity, depth, and skill like the carrot on a stick in front of a mule, leading one wherever you choose to adventure, good time, or sad time.  Your analogy is fantastic, as usuuuuuaaaalll!
Enjoyed bunches.  Take care,
                 miscellanea

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