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icebox
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since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

0 posted 2006-08-03 04:04 AM

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With you morning was a time for song,
I would open every day with joy,
fasten my heart’s sails onto the wind,
decorate the tree of life with shimmering reflections
believing grainy snapshots were eternal;
now the memories of those days,
for me gone too many years
to hold as anything but shadows,
bring no feelings to my soul.

When I was very young,
when I counted time in dollars not in decades,
I ran on paths where trust was nothing
but a short lived fool’s delusion;
now in the long and sleepless nights of age,
when Moon illusions cast me out
and raging dreams show no mercy,
reason tells me nothing
as I am staring into time.

©2006 by icebox

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iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

1 posted 2006-08-03 04:45 AM

How differently we look at things as we grow older....it is so true. This is lovely writing, but so sad...those dreams do haunt.

Totally unrelated, but...the title of your poem really threw me for a loop for a second. Just when you were putting the poem on PIP, my son and I were looking at photos of Siberian Huskies and Malamutes on the internet (studying their wolf origins...). He is getting a Malamute puppy in a couple of weeks which we drove to Waco yesterday to pick from the liter. We don't have any sleds to pull here in Houston....wish me luck....a wolf in the house...omg.

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

2 posted 2006-08-03 07:42 AM

"now the memories of those days,
for me gone too many years
to hold as anything but shadows,
bring no feelings to my soul."

Well, I don't believe that for one minute - memories always bring feelings and if we don't acknowledge them then we are simply in denial. In any case, you couldn't have written this if there wasn't any feeling so, well done, Mr. icebox, you are a thinking and feeling human being -

live with it.

Helen

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

3 posted 2006-08-03 09:07 AM

When I was very young,
when I counted time in dollars not in decades,
I ran on paths where trust was nothing
but a short lived fool’s delusion;

me too icebox, me too

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

4 posted 2006-08-03 11:02 AM

icebox

just a jewel in deep of pool
and a song was there you know
probably all along

the quell
Member

since 2006-07-19

Posts 144
Liverpool, UK

5 posted 2006-08-03 12:25 PM

haunting. Nostalgia just rose like smoke from this piece. it gave me shivers

serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

6 posted 2006-08-03 04:48 PM

Try as I might, I can never critique you.

I always just find myself sitting here thinking,

"You are so lovely."

sigh

Billy_tha_Kidd
Junior Member

since 2006-07-17

Posts 27
Indiana USA

7 posted 2006-08-03 06:14 PM

Rather well done!

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