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To Speak Of Love As If The Dead Care For Flowers On Their Graves
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To Speak Of Love As If The Dead Care For Flowers On Their Graves |
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icebox Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383in the shadows 
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In this flat steady rain of early morning, the pains of memory are dull and unyielding early draining on the daily plane, freed temporarily from the dry cracking sun of reason in a season desolate, damp with dreams, hard pressed surface washed, barely pitted by scattered drops of imagery falling through the mistrial winds that stir my soul; so many years since I learned to love without intent, choice left far behind wrapped in awareness’ cloak to ward off fear on tangled trails of self content, love can exist in reagent form so pure that to exist at all means it must be sealed, kept from contact in a world that would consume it with no more thought than yeast making bubbles in my beer. I love without purpose, without need, it is wholly mine without want yet unwanted, the quiet voice tossed to the mists, a monologue in memory of futures lost drifting at the edge of sound, where words are carried off as prisoners of the wind one day to fall forgotten having lost all cognate form like these rains in soft breeze calling me to wander without choice, without choice. ©2005 by icebox . |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
your titles always catch me the poems always hold me |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
"I love without purpose, without need," from the heart without limits |
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iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
"so pure that to exist at all means it must be sealed, kept from contact in a world that would consume it with no more thought than yeast making bubbles in my beer." "where words are carried off as prisoners of the wind one day to fall forgotten having lost all cognate form like these rains in soft breeze calling me to wander" Some of my favorite lines....but Mr. C, this is such an awesome piece....I think a little bit of "consumption" of this brings more light into the world. Kind of like that dewdrop on the celestial flower, so to speak...*wink* *smile* ...jo |
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jellybeans Member Elite
since 2000-10-13
Posts 2298 |
*long deep sigh* I have not only lived this.....it breathes my breath.... |
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The Lady Member Rara Avis
since 2005-12-26
Posts 7634The Southwest |
This brings me to silence... |
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