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Karma Understood Leaves No Where To Turn
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Karma Understood Leaves No Where To Turn |
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icebox Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383in the shadows 
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I have no thoughts tonight, only memories, and they don’t ever keep me warm; sometimes in weak moments, steeped in the acrid drink of mortality, I wonder what I meant to you. I recall your smile, the sensations of infinity in all the little whiles we were joined, your laughter, rich honest laughter, oh I know I made you laugh; though I hear no trace of that in you today. In the ways I tried to teach you I look in on you from time to time. I’m no stalker, I do it from a distance so great as to be almost in another universe; you see I have no interest in bending fate, it is too late for me anyway; my time here is coming to its end. I simply wish you well, a thought I could never tell you even when you listened; that kind of honesty always makes you run away and now you have all the things you wanted, all the merit badges and the trappings, the craven markers of success, yet there is a hollow sound ringing in the echo that deafens while bringing an awareness of emptiness. How many zeros in a bank account add up to something real? Ah well, who could tell if they meet you today at some chic soiree over drinks while discussing meaningless nuances overlaying momentary pseudo-art; within its shell of status and display your heart always is a merc on the open market a soldier of fortune in the anarchy of social war, maybe when I’ve left this life I’ll find a way to break the spell that seems yet to hold me in your thrall each day. ©2006 by icebox |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
icebox "maybe when I’ve left this life I’ll find a way to break the spell that seems yet to hold me in your thrall each day." I hope you do find a way....but not by leaving this life....is that possible?  |
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XOx Uriah xOX Senior Member
since 2006-02-11
Posts 1403Virginia |
This is very powerful ! Once more...a heart squeezed and poured upon the page. "How many zeros in a bank account add up to something real?" Powerful! But concerning "my time here is coming to its end." Where can you go? You are here. There is no where to go...Where you are not. |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
" wonder what I meant to you." and I wonder some days, if I will die wondering if I mattered. (and why is that important to me?) Karen's last words will be punctuated with a question mark, no doubt about it. It's check in time, ice. Let me know how you are... retrograde always plummets my soul.  |
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Rainbowdust Member
since 2002-12-05
Posts 320Sydney, Australia |
Icebox This was so beautifully honest. It's going into my library. "sometimes in weak moments, steeped in the acrid drink of mortality, I wonder what I meant to you." Gorgeous. The soul would have no rainbows, had the eyes no tears. |
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Klassy Lassy Member Elite
since 2005-06-28
Posts 2187Oregon |
What a gift laughter is, and to have someone who cares enough to give it to you! There is so much in this poem that stirs the depths of my thought: the things we do not say, the distances we keep, the love that stays--an goes. The eyes. Incredible write! ~ Klassy ~ |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
...and the worst of it is, we make our own karma, here and now -- or enough of it that we can say it's all. A shape of spirit, some of its strengths and weaknesses, worth a pawn or two on this giant chessboard, and if we're lucky some memories and dimensions out of lives gone before, that's all we get. The rest we build ourselves, whether sticks or bricks or straw. ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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nakdthoughts Member Laureate
since 2000-10-29
Posts 19200Between the Lines |
what Klassy said and more~~~ touched me today~~ M |
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Susan Caldwell Member Rara Avis
since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348Florida |
I am glad to see some of the newer members reading you.  I won't tell you not to go..but rather, if you must, to visit me in my dreams. Sadly beautiful words Mr. Icy.  "too bad ignorance isn't painful" ~Unknown~ [This message has been edited by Susan Caldwell (03-13-2006 08:54 AM).] |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
You do know how to touch a reader with your thoughts and blunt feelings...so real. |
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desert-spike Member
since 2006-02-01
Posts 194TX/USA |
icebox, sometimes I have words, sometimes they have me. Today the latter is so, and I find you've left me at a loss. This is not easily done. |
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Buttons Junior Member
since 2006-02-27
Posts 34 |
your title says it all; beautifully expressed. Buttons |
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The Lady Member Rara Avis
since 2005-12-26
Posts 7634The Southwest |
Oh icebox. I find it impossible to choose "special" lines. They are all so perfect and they speak so well. This poem seems very personal and honest. Thank you for this. |
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iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
Maybe when we leave this world...lots of things will be different...but it sounds like as long as the tie's not broken, you'll meet her again. Hope you're well, Mr. C. ....jo |
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latearrival Member Ascendant
since 2003-03-21
Posts 5499Florida |
Icebox, if you made just one person laugh in this often bleak world, you will be greeted by angels with open arms.Then count all the joy and pleasure you have given us at PIPs and know how you will be missed when that times comes. Sincerely, martyjo |
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MGROVES
since 2004-02-01
Posts 3802california |
making a person laugh (especially one who was not allowed much in life) is a gods gift ~ heart felt~ soul filled~ treasure, priceless~ its memory written upon ones heart keeps for all eternity, even love cant erase a treasure like that~ My spirit will rise |
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MGROVES
since 2004-02-01
Posts 3802california |
just going back in time, my soul smiles upon you~ My spirit will rise |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Like this...James |
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Artic Wind Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 8080Realm of Supernatural |
enjoyed ARCTIC WIND |
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MGROVES
since 2004-02-01
Posts 3802california |
come back to the past for my best memories. thankyou My spirit will rise |
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