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secondhanddreampoet
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0 posted 2006-12-21 05:46 AM


     December’s  Past
  [For Ms. Christine Rose]

I decide to hide once more
to put out the cat-world
and none shall mourn my
  invisibility
this sad December day!

The shades are drawn
out...out...upon
the sights and sounds
of all mortal schemers
great and small
upon the broken-brick
  temples
and garbage in the streets
.....‘reality’ retreats.....
in a moment’s sanctuary
mid distant echoes
of early Christmas bells
and mingled memories
from light years ago...

Now I know
why poets wrote
about ‘Love from afar’
that cannot tarnish
from rain or tears,
but remains instead
forever young!

We cannot ‘kill’
what ‘never was’
she taught me this
the only ‘certain
  certainties
for which we seek’
are things which
‘might have been’
always possible,
always perfect,
and just beyond
  reach......
that was my lady
  of the roses!



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Roniece Dawson-Bruce
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1 posted 2006-12-21 06:08 AM


very very nice Bruce!   RDB x
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Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-06
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Deep in the heart
2 posted 2006-12-21 09:27 AM


Write on

Poet, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart and write.

Pilgrimage
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since 2001-12-04
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Texas, USA
3 posted 2006-12-21 10:05 AM


This one gave me a sad smile.  Yes, the might-have-beens are always pure, but never really there.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

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