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icebox
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since 2003-05-03

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in the shadows

0 posted 2006-10-05 10:00 PM

...and so once more
the full moon is upon us,
the Hunter Moon,
Moon of Blood and Harvest,
Moon of the Dying Grass,
and I have aged again
as in every Autumn passed
a year of hard time served
with the rest of all the living;
my private sentence
for the brutal crime of my survival.

It is in this time of year I feel you most,
the elemental shining through the fire in your eyes,
the gasp and grasp and clutch of you,
in your precious French, "la petite mort"
the little death,
little practice for the big one,
still I survive living on the knowledge
that one day the hounds
will chase the Autumn fox without me,
and I will sleep again
warmed in the fire of your soul.

©2006 by icebox

Magnus

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since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

1 posted 2006-10-05 10:16 PM

Yep, by George, I think you have gone and
done it!! Well written and thought out.
A very good read.

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

2 posted 2006-10-05 11:04 PM

it's always this time of year...something about this time of year, yes

does this to me too

iliana
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since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

3 posted 2006-10-05 11:09 PM

I feel like I have just read a page torn out from your diary, or maybe the last draft of the most eloquent of love letters. This is definitely one of my very favorite poems of all time, really. And the title....perfecto. This squeezed my heart....jo

seraphin
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since 2000-09-24

Posts 1004
Michigan

4 posted 2006-10-06 12:26 PM

So surreal and delicate for a subject that is cold and hard. I love this.

Sandra

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

5 posted 2006-10-06 12:58 PM

icebox

I loved this...the life of it and after life...you touched me. *hug*

Honeybunch
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since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

6 posted 2006-10-06 01:18 PM

icebox - yes, the one sure reality of life is death but "dream" it well and so it will be, i.e. picture how you want your life to be then in every detail. Your words are always "substantial". Take care!

Helen

CastleGuard
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since 2003-04-30

Posts 760
Alberta, Canada

7 posted 2006-10-06 02:25 PM

This was excellent, icebox. I have read it a number of times, without any diminishing impact.

CG

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

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Tamarac Fla

8 posted 2006-10-06 02:34 PM

icebox
Another flower in the sun.

serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

9 posted 2006-10-06 05:33 PM

"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?"

I'm not even sure who I am quoting with that, but this is indeed the question your work always brings to mind.

Just one question about that question....

is it rhetorical?

Love you.

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

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Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

10 posted 2006-10-06 06:01 PM

Nice writing...James

PouringJewels
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since 2003-09-18

Posts 158
Maryland

11 posted 2006-10-09 03:05 AM

I remember responding to a few of your writes over a year ago. I must click with your words, as I seldom find time for the computer. 'brutal crime of my survival' very well spoken

icebox
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since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

12 posted 2006-10-09 08:19 AM

Thank you all for the gift of your time and for the kindness of your thoughts.

Susan Caldwell
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since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

13 posted 2006-10-09 08:59 AM

missed reading you.

always something to ponder.

and Karen?

"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?"

for me it would depend on the character I am playing, each and every time.

"too bad ignorance isn't painful"
~Unknown~

Refugee
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since 2006-08-04

Posts 97

14 posted 2006-10-09 09:02 AM

Oh, yes, I enjoyed the idea and the darkness expressed here. I will definitely want to read more.

Marchmadness
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since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

15 posted 2010-09-22 07:51 PM

I expect nothing less than perfection from a master poet.
Ida

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