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Professor Gloom
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since 2000-07-23

Posts 3082
of Depression

0 posted 2005-10-21 07:30 PM

As I sit
With shadows crossing the floor,
As I sip
My hot sweet mint tea once more,
I ponder
Forms and forming of some words,
I wander
The sounds of voices once heard,
But a cup of tea last not forever
And the cup’s emptiness does now sever,
Pondering thoughts
Wandering thoughts,
Just as darkness ends the shadows
Streaking through the open windows,
I pull the thick black curtains
On my way to the kitchen
Leaving no light to guide my way,
But I know each footfall so well
I walk as if it were day,
Sight and smell
Needed not the memory
Of walking,
I don’t need to see,
The knowing
From movement so many times done alone,
And I steep another cup of mint tea,
As I sit in the darkness of my home
Letting the sweet fragrance grow
Then in darkness return back
Every step I know
Through the black,
As I sit
Without shadows on the floor
As I sip
My hot sweet mint tea once more.

Gloom

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

1 posted 2005-10-21 08:06 PM

yum...now I might need to visit the cupboards, find that tasty Stash

wordwizard
Member

since 2003-09-08

Posts 483
on the way to next world

2 posted 2005-10-21 08:18 PM

Now mint is food for the mind and I like to think..at least sometimes

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

3 posted 2005-10-21 08:21 PM

Much enjoyed this tasty write.
Hugs~Nancy

~Time has cast a spell on you,
So you won't ever forget me.~

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

4 posted 2005-10-22 04:35 AM

quote:
But I know each footfall so well
I walk as if it were day,
Sight and smell
Needed not the memory
Of walking,
I don’t need to see,
The knowing
From movement so many times done alone,

... as long as you have your inner light that shines, it's all right.
You merge with the night behind your black curtains, try to let in star sparks and moonrays ... they will make your mint tea even more tasty.

I don't tolerate well total blackness, that's why I felt like opening your curtains ...

and dear Professor please be careful, even if you trust your memory, I fell badly on my hard marble floor in the dark while trusting my memory.

Intensely melancholic write, but I enjoyed it, as you can see.

Love,
Margherita

Sunshine

Administrator

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

5 posted 2005-10-22 06:55 AM

Ah, Professor...

'tis a sad way to enjoy
this mine of minted pleasure...

another cup, please?

Susan Caldwell
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

6 posted 2005-10-25 01:07 PM

Each word is encrusted with alone...

and that mint tea sounds so good...I would share a cup with you there in the dark.

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

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