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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2004-11-08 03:45 AM

Smooth, smooth,
like old vintage wine
I sit here a product of time
not bottled and corked
but forever denied
the air of release
and peace.

Red, red,
the red of my blood
hot in confinement cries
as segments of hope
break and detach
from the core of a true heart.

Dark, dank, and musty, the air
I’m forced to rely upon
while dust settles over the all
I wanted to be and do
before maturity.

Still in the process
my spirit grows strong,
strong enough to believe that time
will herald in a need and desire
for the full bodied essence of me …
but maybe only in dreams
will the warm and “beautiful” (?) me
slide between the folds of a mind
and open the porthole to more.

Smooth, smooth, and red, so red,
yet I lie on the side unused
till he who would drink
stands at my door
and asks, simply asks,
to come in!

8 November 2004

Kaoru

Member Elite

since 2003-06-07

Posts 3892
where the wild flowers grow

1 posted 2004-11-08 05:03 AM

Lovely, I like the repeated words.

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

2 posted 2004-11-08 05:16 AM

Happy Birthday girl

Marge Tindal

Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

3 posted 2004-11-08 09:04 AM

Helen~
You ... and your thoughts ... are vintage poetry~

Happy Birthday wishes also~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram <))><

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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

4 posted 2004-11-08 09:09 AM

Thanks all for the read and Dixie and Marge for the birthday wishes too. It's a pity that only the mind, heart, soul, ages sometimes gracefully while the body certainly never can. Oh well, drink up!

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

5 posted 2004-11-08 09:21 AM

*Clink* A toast to you on your birthday!
And, an excellent write I might add!
Hugs~Nancy

Now while the leaves still dance on the wind
While the moon and the clouds come spinning
Will you whisper my name again?
Again..and again.

MGROVES

Member Elite

since 2004-02-01

Posts 3802
california

6 posted 2004-11-08 09:32 AM

a happy birthday toast to you

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

7 posted 2004-11-08 02:44 PM

Thank you both for the wishes. Yes, a drink or two chases the shadows away - temporarily.

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