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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296
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embedded in music spilling out onto a turning point your good-bye kiss walks me home even though, it was a mere brushing and cool i could feel your once warm heart hammering against mine like the muted honking of taxicabs behind some jazz music of new york breaking off in the distance like a quiet nation, happy above all the channels happy happy but, then.... you locked me in a cell for 14 years wearing nothing, nothing...but a dream truth be told, i locked myself there… damn my wanton to make it work! damn doing what everyone else thought I should do! and damn that foolish fear of failing! timber wolves picked at my shinbones in slow motive deep thought i wondered what evensongs dreamed of? or an inland bound water way as it passed down thru generations i was still building bridges, trying to forget what was going on…? that ridiculous small town poverty you know, the one your mother holds onto her cloths still smell like sundays with their noses hard pressed against her window the one all foggy now, cuz she’s way to old to reach it air hangs like moss, still, over metallic waters i dared, look to the east horizon it’s growing brighter, then i’m used to and that pale skyline, wears its night time veil her finger pointing directly at some final signature transfixed with barren aroma i shun a withdrawal, feeling low country and remembering that odor for the rest of my life so much so...sometimes on a low night when lineaments hang in the air my childhood speaks in solace gently palming forgetfulness like a wanna be bulkhead between fresh poured concrete a refuge from the freezing north windblown rain, blinding him… that was the dinning car i preferred to hang onto at the time…. i’ve gotta get outa this place it stares me into questions i’m afraid to find answers to then it spits on me, all my favorite memories making me wish they had flesh but the tiger eye of summer drinks a brighter jewel a weaver of dreams, comes out to play and the blood warriors hunger for a new letter from some once extraordinary, now, lonely love holding eye contact right about now, i’d love a letter to hold me close like they used to… then, as now, i could see furry little white ducks standing all in a row but in between, well sir, it was like some damn thing, i’d never shake off! until i let go of my hide cramming feet into soul shoes dawn now tilts my world, every single morning ahhh, yes, and as for love....? well, its out there, and in here other then that I cannot speak for anyone else |
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Startime55 Member Elite
since 2003-04-05
Posts 2148Alberta, Canada |
WOW!!! I cried...and cried...memories filled my heart while I tried desperately to push them away...How powerfully you have written to bring back things to my mind that I had buried so deep...My heart cried then smiled that I can look back on tears and still in the now wrap my arms around love...Stunning poem...Thank you for the healing it gave to me...**big hugs** |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
LeeJ "ahhh, yes, and as for love....? well, its out there, and in here other then that I cannot speak for anyone else" You can speak for me!  |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
"ahhh, yes, and as for love....? well, its out there, and in here other then that I cannot speak for anyone else" Once again Lee...another incredible spill. What an amazing woman you are... Hugs to you lovely lady~ ~Somewhere in my heart I'm always |
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Ericc Member Elite
since 2003-01-31
Posts 4178 |
Wonderful write! Eric |
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