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icebox
Member Elite

since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

0 posted 2005-04-20 03:55 AM

What draw is this
that raises me up,
like a slip of life
shed from primal roots,
torn in the night
like a spring time reed,
from the death of sleep
where I replay my trials
face my own judge,
where I recognize
only troths I keep?

There is no season
for memory,
it escapes too easily
through windows of sleep
as I wander the world,
yearning to be free,
while wisps of thread
tether my soul
to its ancient keep,
this broken body
called again and again
to grind against
the bedrock of time,
while the sound
the Earth makes
is moaning.

©2005 by icebox

Dark Angel
Member Patricius

since 1999-08-04

Posts 10095

1 posted 2005-04-20 04:28 AM

WOW!

it's a

mxx

"we all have wings, but some of us don't know why"

Michael Hutchence (INXS)

Susan Caldwell
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

2 posted 2005-04-20 12:39 PM

supply and demand.

My role has always been one of a messenger. The demand is so that most times I don't even know I am making a delivery.

what we do is important on a level we may never fully understand.

Enough talk of things that others will never understand. (for me at least...you write more, please).

"too bad ignorance isn't painful"
~Unknown~

serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

3 posted 2005-04-20 03:12 PM

Well, I for one am very glad you have lived to write another day.

You are absolutely brilliant.

Susan
Member Ascendant

since 2004-03-27

Posts 5104
walking the surreal

4 posted 2005-04-20 03:16 PM

much enjoyed - well seasoned fare -

Susan

If I wander far enough, long enough, will I finally know . . .

nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

5 posted 2005-04-20 03:33 PM

well...I am glad I caught time to read this one...I could second the WOW...
"There is no season
for memory,
it escapes too easily
through windows of sleep
as I wander the world,
yearning to be free,"

happens to me too

M

Martie

Moderator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

6 posted 2005-04-20 03:45 PM

icebox

"like a spring time reed,
from the death of sleep
where I replay my trials
face my own judge,
where I recognize
only troths I keep?"

I have had many similar nights lately when I could have been sleeping.

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

7 posted 2005-04-20 04:24 PM

Very much enjoyed the read..
Well done Sir.

~Somewhere in my heart I'm always
dancing with you in the summer rain ~

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

8 posted 2005-04-20 08:38 PM

well done
and much enjoyed

MGROVES

Member Elite

since 2004-02-01

Posts 3802
california

9 posted 2005-04-21 02:41 AM

oh yes and wow
thanks for sharing~

My spirit will rise
above the sea~
There will be no drowning
of my soul or me~

DavePage
Member Elite

since 2003-12-21

Posts 2917

10 posted 2005-04-22 04:26 PM

Please dont ever become like the Cousins in Dickens who travelled far, laughed more than anyone and drank everything they could find

I prefer your "wordly wise" view of life

Great words

Dave

Seymour Tabin
Member Empyrean

since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

11 posted 2005-04-22 07:17 PM

icebox
A pleasure to read you.

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