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The Frozen Moment
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The Frozen Moment |
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RSWells Member Elite
since 2001-06-17
Posts 2533
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The Lover, The Dying, brink limits of life’s intensity, squint winded asking no more than what children possess before memory arrives to erase it…… A frozen moment A frozen moment under a burning sun, on a whirling earth, with its roulette mosaic of detached clouds, ever-wavering wane and waxer, who drags the seas, turns wind Stand too close to boundaries they dissolve Stay brisk and moving like a shark eating what’s in front of it, never surveying the mess in its wake or breaching the distorted ceiling of its world Stay warm amid the electric zanies, the pulsing, glittering dung of din in the hasty hothouse where hysteria in silence spreads like oil across a pan From there the thinning veil is always blue, a depleted sheet used as a comforter and not the tattered battery, bulwark against the black and its teasing stars The edge is like Cleveland, there’s no there there. The Dying are drafted, The Lover volunteers and no plea under the sky is bidden a frozen moment for any hidden art, thank the heart, the heart, the heart POETS AGAINST THE WAR IS REDUNDANT |
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MGROVES
since 2004-02-01
Posts 3802california |
wow~ |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
RSWells And Murphy will attest to it. Enjoyed the read. |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Hmmmm.... I volunteer a lot... and this says even more about the way of sapiens  |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Richard "The edge is like Cleveland, there’s no there there." So many great lines in this...including and especially the last one. I hope all is well with you.  |
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iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
Let me just say that this poem comes pretty darn close to freezing the moment... it is art...."thank the heart, heart, heart" Clicking library. .....jo |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
what a read!  |
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Susan Member Ascendant
since 2004-03-27
Posts 5104walking the surreal |
I am stilled in thought - pondering this moment - enjoyed - S If I wander far enough, long enough, will I finally know . . . |
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*Alli4000*
since 2004-03-21
Posts 3188The World of Poetry |
Loved this!  ~Alli~ *AIM = Alli4000* Journal! |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
"Stand too close to boundaries they dissolve" yes, indeed good to read you tonight Richard, and to be left in a pondering moment |
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Gentle Spirit Member Patricius
since 2000-10-09
Posts 13989 |
and no plea under the sky is bidden a frozen moment for any hidden art, thank the heart, the heart, the heart indeed, sometimes, the heart is all we have to thank. And yes, I did actually read it. lol. Again, you grace us with wonderful writing. |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
"From there the thinning veil is always blue, a depleted sheet used as a comforter and not the tattered battery, bulwark against the black and its teasing stars" ~ These lines I felt especially. ~ the emptiness, the bleakness... Love & Light, Linda |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
outstanding Richard, your writes are a literary experience, one which takes the reader into the focus of subject feeling the depth and dimension of your words... |
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