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Open Poetry #35

Dire straits (tanka)

ice
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since 2003-05-17

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Pennsylvania

0 posted 2005-04-27 08:11 AM

A toddler is crying
Having lost control of plight
A primal action

In dire situations
The grownup weeps, same reason

LeeJ
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since 2003-06-19

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1 posted 2005-04-27 08:30 AM

Enjoyed this...Ford, thank you

Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

2 posted 2005-04-27 08:42 AM

Such a helpless feeling
when we cry as we did
when we were but toddlers...

a time when one truly
feels alone against the world...

such insight, Ford.

Thank you.

Midnitesun

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Gaia

3 posted 2005-04-27 10:09 PM

such an understanding write
not surprising, though

Martie

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4 posted 2005-04-27 10:12 PM

Yep...it is like that, isn't it! Thanks Ford!

Nightshade

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since 2001-08-31

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just out of reach

5 posted 2005-04-27 10:22 PM

Well done Ford. Enjoyed. Chris

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
~Carl Sandburg

Enchantress
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Canada eh.

6 posted 2005-04-27 10:25 PM

How true..how very true Ford.
Well done Sir.
Hugs~Nancy

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

yv
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since 2003-05-30

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7 posted 2005-04-27 10:58 PM

Wow...that was deep. Very profound work of poetry.

Yv-Goddess of Her Domain. Symbol of Truth Passion Pain. Let Her Smile Rain on the Hearts of the Innocent.

jwesley
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since 2000-04-30

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Spring, Texas

8 posted 2005-04-28 09:12 PM

The "band" brought me in...glad it did....

Jimmy

froggy
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since 2003-06-23

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Michigan

9 posted 2005-04-29 11:08 PM

:-)

Enjoyed this piece.

<^^> Today the pond....Tomorrow the world

ice
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since 2003-05-17

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Pennsylvania

10 posted 2005-04-30 05:26 AM

A humble thank you to all...
Heaven is to be read and understood......

----------ice/ford
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passing shadows
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displaced

11 posted 2005-04-30 08:42 PM

good one here

enjoyed

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