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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738
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"ah..." but she is very sweet and oh but you should fetch yer bone jaws is dancing down the street-- deh-deh-deh-deh-deh d-dove... down canal st. internet it wasn't very hard to do a vee that wasn't me and this is all the shark that had lips left--it's CNN and pray-for-us madonna's hands are clasped in trust "get that shot" the renegade reporter drinking gatorade (but cut the camera please) and then someone's loved one drifted by swollen and I asked the "why" of what was never questioned by the talking heads as we all died drifting stiff like wood until you tried to grasp the arm of "it" Uncle Henry's skin was silk-- slipping off the bone. Karen's mind massaging this-- y'think that I'll get over this? wrinkling a jug of bliss roly-poly down the bone and ulna and the femur broke-- rotten scarf the times of the, the fits and nothing was like this: like children chawing marrow-bone: but Uncle Henry's skin slipped silk and news directors yelled the cut: too graphic they had cried "enough" watching waters in congeal... they flashed to the commercial break and spoke of vitamins. |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
 there is hope and hope orchastrates one heck of a antiseptic... Karen....your an incredible woman...keep on writing...always... All my love |
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Susan Caldwell Member Rara Avis
since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348Florida |
over? I don't think so. it's soaked in. and that is a tragedy.. and what is worse is there are things that could be done to ease some of what life has become...yet, very little is being done because they turn the camera's away. It's too much for us to watch, yet, how many are living it? love you. "too bad ignorance isn't painful" |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
I'd like to have this served to the powers that be and the media moguls alongside a huge bowl of wheaties talk about a breakfast of 'champions'.... only you, serenity blaze, could write such a vivid truth, and with such intensity of emotion and only your wording could entice me to return for a second reading oh my, but this hurts to the bone.... I wish it were a Stephen King fantasy. |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
and I asked the "why" of what was never questioned by the talking heads as we all died drifting stiff like wood until It is that word, "until" that has to provide the hope K, it has to. This truly ached with each word. |
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latearrival Member Ascendant
since 2003-03-21
Posts 5499Florida |
All I can do is repeat what I have said to you privately. Publish!! where all can read and learn from you ... martyjo |
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iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
How can anyone possibly understand what you feel unless they experience this horror -- the cameras must be left to run!!! You know my thoughts on this (and it's a fine piece of writing,too....really conveys well). Wheaties, indeed (shaking my head) .....jo |
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Paul Wilson
since 2002-07-07
Posts 4711United States |
Karen...Sights and memories we will never forget but hopefully we can heal and pray us and our children will never have to see again...Paul ~~To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you~~ |
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sandgrain Member Elite
since 1999-09-21
Posts 3662Sycamore, IL, USA |
Oh, Karen, you give depth to the media facade, a panorama to the snapshots, smells and climate to the TV views. I see, pray and go on with life. You live, eat and breathe it. I love you for your courage, your honesty, your willingness to share from your horrible perspective the emotions you are experiencing. Please keep helping us 'feel' this aftermath. God bless you Rae |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
I need to thank you all yet again. I think I'm finally coming to terms with the fact that my head is screwed up. I think I should change my name to Queen of Denial.  But after a few thunderstorms here, and my family and I had some rough moments during them, and then we all had nightmares that we thought we'd been done with, we all realized that we will never forget, and never look at a raincloud the same way again. I've been reading up on trauma and the mind is an incredible machine...it works things out on its own schedule, and things that happen during initial trauma become triggers, and we don't even realize it. But thank you all for your kindness--it kind of balances out my life. I don't mean to dwell on this, or wallow--I just never know when that movie that runs in my mind will "show"...and I wrote this after looking in my pantry and wondering if "normal" people worry about stocking up on survival supplies. (Do they?) I love you all bunches.  |
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The Lady Member Rara Avis
since 2005-12-26
Posts 7634The Southwest |
"Karen's mind massaging this-- y'think that I'll get over this?" Oh Karen. How can you ever get over this? Keep writing it. It needs you. This one almost drowned my heart. |
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bubblesleave Member
since 2006-03-04
Posts 197Bloomington, IN |
Another cleaver, and quite wonderful read! Listen, I DO appreciate you commenting on my poetry even when "some" seeem to think I have the Bird Flu...or worse. Thanks, and THANKS AGAIN!!! in my mind, You are a "most" decent human being! Best to you, Bubbles (Sharon) |
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Archea Member
since 2006-05-13
Posts 65United States |
i liked the flow of it and the words you used. it kind of gave me and uneasy feel to though. it opened my perspective of reality... interesting. |
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Allysa
since 1999-11-09
Posts 1952In an upside-down garden |
I've read this at least ten times, I'm shocked I haven't left a comment yet. I think it's because you leave me so speechless, I cannot think of anything to say. In Ohio, during "tornado season", people, especially in certain counties, stock up on supplies. Just In Case.  |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Then we need some "just in case" poetry, eh?  I'll be around, unless of course, the teeny tidy tornadoes hit my pantry. sigh I worry about everything now...sigh thanks for reading and love to all |
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